Today I went back to the RPi 0 W branch of my scripts, since lately I've been messing with the RPi 0 2 lately instead.  But I've been making way more progress with Raspberry Pi 0 W, since (at this time) P4wnP1 image file doesn't exist for Raspbbery Pi Zero 2.

Return to Pi Zero W

In returning to the RPi 0 scripts, I added the Dashboard display script into crontab.  This way it launches on boot - at the end of the wifi-connect series of scripts.

Adding the wifi-dash script to crontab was easy, except I forgot to fix the relative file references.

WiFi Error Cases

No, at this point, the error cases haven't been all added in (or even mostly).  But I plan to get to that eventually.

For now, here's the flow:

wifi-splash-launch.py && #Show splash screen
wifi-scan.py wlan0 && #Scan for WiFi
wifi-askreconnect.py && #Ask to reconnect
wifi-disp.py && #Display WiFi networks
wifi-pw-skiptest.py && #Display PW input screen
wifi-chek.py && #Check connection
wifi-asksave.py #Ask to save network
wifi-disp-adv-fontsize.py #Show main Dashboard

WiFi-Dash

The "wifi-disp-adv-fontsize" filename was a temporary filename as a branch of the "wifi-disp" file.  I added dynamic font sizing to it at some point.  It was for this reason that I chose to use it as the basis for the Dashboard display file:

• It already functioned as a working "select WiFi network" screen
• I added "dynamic" font sizing / selection box sizing already

So, for now, think "wifi-dash" when you read "wifi-disp-adv-fontsize.py".  I'll change the filename.. eventually.

Parts of WiFi-Dash

Here's the plan for how I'd currently like the wifi-dash screen to work.

• All areas / icons below will be clickable
• Each icon in the Top menu bar has at least 1 secondary icon (ON / OFF / 1 Host Connected for example)
• Main menu goes to BeBoxGUI

From the top left corner of the screen (wifi-disp-adv-fontsize.py):

1. Top menu bar:  Shows status icons, time / date.  Think system tray.  Current icons (in parentheses below) include:
   1. WiFi Signal strength (bars):  shows WiFi link quality (%0 to %100) using 5 bars.
   2. Internet connection (globe):  tells whether or not the device can ping google.com
   3. Privacy (eye):  shows if traffic is currently routed through Tor network or not (torghost)
   4. Bluetooth (bt):  relay info on Bluetooth connection
   5. VNC (tv):  shows if NoVNC is turned On / Off, whether or not anyone's connected
   6. Server (server):  shows if some server is turned ON (spiderfoot, phoneinfoga, helloworld)
2. Left vertical bar:  This could have scroll-related indicators (triangle pointing down for "more items" indicator)
   1. Progress / status / monitor bars?  Such as CPU / ram bars - or a background task progress
3. Main display area:  Anything.  Right now it loads 4 lines from a text file (mnu-main.txt)
4. Bottom status bar:  This is a roughly 20px-tall "white" bar at the bottom.  Could show anything.  Now it says "Status:  Gro0vy" 😉
5. KEY 1,2,3 Button indicators:  These are intended to show what will happen when you press KEY 1, 2, or 3.
6. Notification icon:  I managed to squeezed this font-awesome envelope icon in for messages / notifications.
7. Battery icon:  Last but not least, the battery icon could display output of a PiSugar / UPS Lite pwnagotchi-style plugin.