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Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:07 pm
by cinders
Can anyone help me? I have no idea how I would do this via a script.
I'm trying to write a script to daily change my login page background.
The idea was to keep 30 small jpg files in \hotspot\img\background\ - The file names would be 1.jpg, 2.jpg - all the way to 30.jpg
Currently my hotspot login uses the file \hotspot\img\background.jpg as the background.
I would need a script that would copy \hotspot\img\background\1.jpg to \hotspot\img\background.jpg at a set time (maybe 5am) each day, but on the next day copy 2.jpg, next day 3.jpg, etc.
Could any point me in the right direction?
Cheers,
Cinders.
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:10 pm
by normis
can't you just create 3 directories with different login pages, and use the script to change "hotspot directory" parameter in the hotspot server settings?
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:23 pm
by cinders
Surely it would be easier just to change a single background image file each day?
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:24 pm
by normis
it would not be, as routeros doesn't have file operation functions, like rename.
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:30 pm
by cinders
Ah OK.
Thanks for the info. I'll start working on it.
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:38 pm
by SurferTim
If you download the image from a server using "/tool fetch", you can rename the file enroute.
/tool fetch mode=http address=1.2.3.4 src-path=background2.gif dst-path=/hotspot/img/background.gif
edit: Oops! Forgot to add the mode parameter.
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:48 pm
by cinders
Tim,
That's a great idea!
Because the hotspot runs at http server, is it possible to download it from itself? i.e. 127.0.0.1 ?
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:49 pm
by SurferTim
That I have not tried, but an interesting concept. Give it a shot and see how it does. Let me know!
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:55 pm
by cinders
No worries - I'll drop an update on this thread, thanks again for the great idea!
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:32 am
by cinders
Tim,
Unfortunately it wouldn't work with the image files in the hotspot folder and trying to grab them from local host.
No problem, I put them on my Radius server and it works perfectly! Thanks again for the idea.
All the best,
Cinders.
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:12 am
by tvermoes
Try using javascript on the page you wish to change background on.
You can easily modify this to your needs :
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
var ToDay=new Date();
var Month=ToDay.getMonth();
var Date=ToDay.getDate();
var Image=false;
if (ToDay.getFullYear()==2010){
if (Month==0){ // January
if (Date>=20&&Date<=30){
Image='One.gif';
}
}
if (Month==1){ // Febuary
if (Date>=20&&Date<=25){
Image='Three.gif';
}
}
}
if (Image){
document.body.style.backgroundImage='url(http://192.168.88.1/img/'+Image+')';
}
/*]]>*/
</script>
</body>
</html>
Re: Script to change login background .jpg daily
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:57 am
by cinders
Many thanks for the script above.