Openwrt script?

[professor-jonny]

Are plans to create a script to configure openwrt hardware using this info direct from the xbox dash ?

One could translate this protocol to work with modern hardware and security standards to directly interface with uci

[agarmash]

Hey @professor-jonny,

Personally, I wasn't planning to do that. However, some people from the XboxDev Discord server were discussing the same thing, so there is a possibility that someone would work on such an add-on. My current goal is to figure out the role of the rest of unknown values in the communication protocol.

The inconvenient part in retrofitting the modern security protocols is that the dashboard validates the network key to be a valid WEP key, which can only contain the hex symbols (numbers 0 through 9 and letters A through F). However, there's also an option to set the password for accessing the wireless adapter settings, which theoretically can be abused to provide the WPA key.

[professor-jonny]

As long as we are aware of the issues it would be fine but the OpenWrt app could fudge the returned key to be valid by truncating the ID to the WEP standards to be as it relys on the network adaptor to provide the information to validate.

The app would be relativly easy with Bash scripting using mostly UCI commands and a few Terminal commands:

uci show wireless to get a list of the radios.
uci set wireless.radioN.country='XX' to set the country
uci set wireless.radioN.disabled='0' to enable the radio
uci commit wireless to comit changes
wifi reload to get everything working
iwinfo (Ifname) scan to obtain a list of SSIDs

This is where scripting could truncate the name stripping invalid characters and forwarding it onto the Xbox, what we forward on does not matter as long as we can identify which network it is I guess.

I really do like this idea as there is many single board openwrt compatable SOC hardware devices that could be attached directly attached to the motheboard network port.

For consoles not in stock configuratoiion there is options of SSH using of the shelf commands with a specialty xbox app or bios.