[IDEA] Multiple Wifi SSID

[IriDium]

Would it be possible to have multiple SSID's stored - similar to Android or dare I say Openelec.

On boot, it will scan the available Wifi's and connect to the one with the highest signal strength (and credentials stored).

At the moment you can only have one Wifi registered, but I have multiple Wifi's - some of which are active at any one time.

So I have Wifi(A 192.168.0.xxx) which is active all the time, Wifi(B 192.168.1.xxx) which is a clone and Wifi© which is a bridge of Wifi(A) and is closest to the RPi but not always on.

Obviously this will mean a change to Xbian-config ssh and XBMC but I'm sure others would find it useful.

As an added bonus, it could check the link status periodically, and if one link is down, reconnect to the next wifi available.

[Skywatch]

Sounds like a good idea to me. With the Pi being so small and portable you could use it in many places and have them all remembered for future use. Maybe something added to xbian-config would do the trick? Even a manual selection for now would be better than having to re enter the config every time. Holiday homes, social venues, friends houses, wifi hot spots etc would all be much more easily handled.

Skywatch.

[mk01]

this is standard functionality of wpa_supplicant (wifi subsystem on Debian)

http://manual.aptosid.com/en/inet-setup-en.htm

[IriDium]

Thanks - I guessed it was possible in Unix, but I was thinking more of an XBMC xbian-config and SSH xbian-config. So a user only has to enter the credentials once.