How do I activate hostap(hotspot) in my code?

[wooseokyourself]

Hi. I wanna use this app in my python project.

All I want to do is this; normally the hotspot is dead, and when some condition my program should activates the hotspot of my raspi.

So I had found some API for developers but I couldn't find them.

Maybe it seems impossible cuz I have no experience for backend of web service.

Can anyone help me?

[billz]

The shell script installers/servicestart.sh is executed when the hotspot is started in the UI. You can execute it with Python by doing something like this:

import os
returncode = os.system('sudo /etc/raspap/hostapd/servicestart.sh')
print("The exit code was: %d" % returncode)

[wooseokyourself]

Hi! Thanks for your answer and it works!!

However, is there anyway to stop? Just sudo systemctl stop hosted.service is fine?

[wooseokyourself]

I just checked all I wanted to do is sudo system ctl stop hostapd.service and sudo system ctl start hostapd.service. Thank you for sharing such a great project!

[billz]

Yes you can start/stop hostapd directly like this too. The RaspAP servicestart script manages 3 related services (hostapd, dnsmasq & dhcpcd) and brings them up in a specific order and timing. You can use the --action stop parameter with this script to shut them down.

[wooseokyourself]

Nice answer and I got it. Thanks!