v1.7.9

[aluminum-ice]

• Updated logic for start_websocket() and run() in bettercap.py to catch all possible errors, avoid a crash, and recover gracefully
• Corrected an error I made where start_websockets() with closederror exceptions were not reconnecting (this was generating extremely large log files)
• Added explicit armv7l architecture ARCHFLAG environmental variable to the Ansible playbook to encourage code is compiled for armv7l instead of arm6vl (which is what the armhf base Debian image reports in the Ansible gathered facts)
• Added 'main.log.debug' as a variable in config.toml that enables launching pwnagotchi in debug mode much easier

Full Changelog: v1.7.8...v1.7.9

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This discussion was created from the release v1.7.9.

[waterfallm]

taking a little while for autoupdate to kick in, how long shoulpd i wait after issuing comand sudo rm -rf /root/.auto-update && sudo service pwnagotchi restart

[waterfallm]

ignore kicked in after 5 mins

[TenThousand1]

Noticed something odd in my log when I had it connected to my PC, with internet sharing working and after I commanded it to restart in auto mode. Here's from the log; (it is a lot but it did stop complaining after the third try it seems.)

tail -f /var/log/pwnagotchi.log
File "/usr/local/bin/pwnagotchi", line 55, in do_auto_mode
agent.recon()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/agent.py", line 157, in recon
self.run('wifi.recon.channel clear')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/bettercap.py", line 117, in run
return decode(r, verbose_errors=verbose_errors)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/bettercap.py", line 30, in decode
raise Exception(err)
Exception: error 400: wifi.interface not set or not found
[2023-10-19 21:20:22,408] [INFO] sleeping 60 seconds then advancing to next epoch to allow for cleanup code to trigger
[2023-10-19 21:20:34,121] [INFO] [ai] loading /root/brain.nn ...
[2023-10-19 21:21:22,575] [INFO] [epoch 2] duration=00:01:00 slept_for=00:00:00 blind=0 sad=0 bored=0 inactive=3 active=0 peers=0 tot_bond=0.00 avg_bond=0.00 hops=0 missed=0 deauths=0 assocs=0 handshakes=0 cpu=24% mem=60% temperature=52C reward=-0.2
[2023-10-19 21:21:22,600] [INFO] error 400: wifi.interface not set or not found
[2023-10-19 21:21:22,601] [ERROR] main loop exception due to unavailable wifi device, likely programmatically disabled (error 400: wifi.interface not set or not found)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/init.py", line 348, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/bettercap.py", line 22, in decode
return r.json()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json
raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)
requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pwnagotchi", line 55, in do_auto_mode
agent.recon()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/agent.py", line 157, in recon
self.run('wifi.recon.channel clear')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/bettercap.py", line 117, in run
return decode(r, verbose_errors=verbose_errors)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pwnagotchi/bettercap.py", line 30, in decode
raise Exception(err)
Exception: error 400: wifi.interface not set or not found
[2023-10-19 21:21:22,605] [INFO] sleeping 60 seconds then advancing to next epoch to allow for cleanup code to trigger
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,325] [INFO] [ai] setting new policy:
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,326] [INFO] [ai] ! min_rssi: -200 -> -57
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,327] [INFO] [ai] ! ap_ttl: 120 -> 472
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,327] [INFO] [ai] ! sta_ttl: 300 -> 245
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,328] [INFO] [ai] ! recon_time: 30 -> 27
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,328] [INFO] [ai] ! max_inactive_scale: 2 -> 4
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,329] [INFO] [ai] ! recon_inactive_multiplier: 2 -> 1
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,330] [INFO] [ai] ! hop_recon_time: 10 -> 18
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,330] [INFO] [ai] ! min_recon_time: 5 -> 9
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,331] [INFO] [ai] ! max_interactions: 3 -> 21
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,331] [INFO] [ai] ! max_misses_for_recon: 5 -> 4
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,332] [INFO] [ai] ! excited_num_epochs: 10 -> 13
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,332] [INFO] [ai] ! bored_num_epochs: 15 -> 10
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,333] [INFO] [ai] ! sad_num_epochs: 25 -> 5
[2023-10-19 21:21:52,333] [INFO] [ai] ! channels: [] -> [3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13]
[2023-10-19 21:22:22,750] [INFO] [epoch 3] duration=00:01:00 slept_for=00:00:00 blind=0 sad=0 bored=0 inactive=4 active=0 peers=0 tot_bond=0.00 avg_bond=0.00 hops=0 missed=0 deauths=0 assocs=0 handshakes=0 cpu=0% mem=70% temperature=50C reward=-0.2
[2023-10-19 21:22:22,757] [INFO] [ai] saving /root/brain.json

[TenThousand1]

it finally got to this, [2023-10-19 22:21:49,482] [CRITICAL] 50 epochs without visible access points -> rebooting ...

[TenThousand1]

I restarted it with the battery, unplugged from the computer, and it saw AP's immediately. Perhaps something with auto mode being forced by me over ssh or something equally random, probably isn't a major issue. Maybe a mixup with internet connection sharing and suto mode wanting to use and not seeing the wifi interface? You know better, just looking through the log a bit and thinking to myself.