ModemManager auto connect & LuCI integration

[Nicholas Smith]

Hello Everyone,

I just have a couple of questions regarding the operation of ModemManager and LuCI integration.

1. I have an interface configuration in /etc/config/network which reads very similarly to the one on the modemmanager-openwrt bitbucket readme file.  Upon startup of my system, the modem is always in the disabled state.  I have to manually enable it, and then issue the simple connect.  I thought that, but perhaps this is wrong, that modem manager would enable the interface and issue a connection command using the APN supplied in the network configuration file.  Can someone please explain how I should go about automatically connecting?  I have tried setting autoconnect ‘1' in the configuration as well. 

Is the only real way to get an automatic connection from boot/reboot to have a script to read the /etc/config/network file for the interface using ‘modemmanager’ as the protocol?

2.  I think this question is better suited to the lede/openwrt forum.  I have created a working LuCI Protocol for ModemManager which creates the interface as described above.  However, I believe the ability to start/stop this connection from LuCI would be of great advantage to the user.  Unless I am doing something above incorrectly, how can I let ModemManager to detect changes to the interface?


This is the config file on the bitbucket page:
 Once installed, you can configure the 2G/3G/4G modem connections directly in
   /etc/config/network as in the following example:

    config interface 'broadband'
        option device   '/sys/devices/platform/soc/20980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2.1'
        option proto    'modemmanager'
        option apn      'ac.vodafone.es'
        option username 'vodafone'
        option password 'vodafone'
        option pincode  '7423'
        option lowpower ‘1'

Mine is like this

config interface ‘broadband’
	option device ‘/dev/cdc-wdm0’
	option proto ‘modemmanager’
	option apn ‘live.vodafone.com’



Kind Regards,

Nicholas S.