Turn ON/OFF Wifi in OS X Utility

Question

I'm looking for a simple utility that I could configure to a hotkey which would allow me to toggle ON/OFF my Mac's Wi-Fi.

Answer 1

Maybe not the easiest but this seems to work: http://problemhercules.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-configure-airport-onoff-shortcut.html

Answer 2

Although there seems to be no reliable way of turning AirPort on or off directly via the shell, it is possible to get around that by manipulating OS X's Locations with the scselect command.

First, create a new location called AirPort-Off in the Network preferences pane. With this new location selected, select Network Port Configurations under the Show pop-up menu, and deselect AirPort. Then select your previous location, which for most people would probably be Automatic.

Now, you can turn AirPort off by running scselect AirPort-Off and back on by running the last command, replacing AirPort-Off with the name of your normal location name. To assign a hot key to the command using a utility like Butler, create a simple AppleScript containing this one line:

do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect AirPort-Off"

Then have Butler (or your app of choice) run that APpleScript. (With Butler, running a shell script containing only the bare command doesn't seem to work.)

Answer 3

Something like this worked for me.

Answer 4

You could assign a shortcut to a script like this using an app like FastScripts or Alfred:

#!/bin/bash

device="$(networksetup -listallhardwareports |
grep -E '(Wi-Fi|AirPort)' -A 1 | grep -o "en.")"
[[ "$(networksetup -getairportpower $device)" == *On ]] && val=off || val=on
networksetup -setairportpower $device $val

If you use Alfred and have the Powerpack, there's an extension called Toggle wifi on/off that basically just runs a shell script like the one above.

Answer 5

We built Airtoggle exactly for this. It's great for people who don't want to use scripts etc. http://www.axoniclabs.com/Airtoggle/