microdroid / airplaned

Userspace airplane mode manager for linux.

airplaned

An userspace daemon for managing airplane mode. It listens for KEY_RFKILL on a given event device and automatically saves and restores rfkill device state when entering and leaving airplane mode respectively. It's a work in progress and many imperfections are present. The LED name is currently hardcoded to asus-wireless::airplane.

If you wish to use rfkill's integrated input handler and only manage the LED, check out the ledonly branch. (see what I did there?)

How to use

Adjust the #define LEDNAME in airplaned.c to whatever your airplane mode LED is called. (Look into /sys/class/leds) Find your airplane mode button input device by running grep -B5 rfkill /proc/bus/input/devices. You are interested in eventXX listed in the line starting with H:. You may get multiple results, but unless you have multiple airplane mode buttons (contact me) only one of them will be correct. To find it, you could use evtest and monitor the event device for output when pressing the button. On my ASUS zenbook 2 devices are detected and the correct one is called Asus Wireless Radio Control.

make
sudo make install
sudo systemctl enable [email protected]

reboot or sudo systemctl start [email protected].

The daemon should now disable rfkill's integrated input handler and listen for input.