This is a bash script that will automatically turn your wifi off if you connect your computer to an ethernet connection and turn wifi back on when you unplug your ethernet cable/adapter. If you decide to turn wifi on for whatever reason, it will remember that choice. This was improvised from this mac hint to work with Yosemite, and without hard-coding the adapter names. It's supposed to support growl, but I didn't check that part. I did, however, add OSX notification center support. Feel free to fork and fix any issues you encounter.
Most the credit for these changes go to Dave Holland.
- Mac OSX 10+
- Administrator privileges
- Copy
toggleAirport.sh
to/Library/Scripts/
- Run
chmod 755 /Library/Scripts/toggleAirport.sh
- Copy
com.mine.toggleairport.plist
to/Library/LaunchAgents/
- Run
chmod 600 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mine.toggleairport.plist
- Run
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mine.toggleairport.plist
to start the watcher
- Run
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mine.toggleairport.plist
to stop the watcher - Delete
/Library/Scripts/toggleAirport.sh
- Delete
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mine.toggleairport.plist
- Delete
/private/var/tmp/prev_eth_on
- Delete
/private/var/tmp/prev_air_on
To debug, just run: sudo /Library/Scripts/toggleAirport.sh
and add echo's wherever you'd like
First, a disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on this stuff, just hacker enough to make it work :)
Does adding .* after Ethernet work?
eth_names=networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | sed -En 's|^\(Hardware Port: .*(Slot 1\|Ethernet.*\|LAN\|Thunderbolt\|AX88179A.*), Device: (en.*.\|bridge.*.)\)$|\2|p'