HowTo: Reconnect with THOMSON TG585 v7 SW: 8.6.9.0 using expect

These instruction should work in all unixoid OS. For Windows check the links at the end of the post.
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Hi everybody,
this is my first post here.

Here are instructions on how to reconnect with THOMSON TG585 v7, which is used i.e. by Telekom Austria.

As the existing LiveHeader/curl solutions didn't work for me, I decided to create a script based on telnet automation using the commandline tool "expect":

For reading what expect exactly is please follow **External links are only visible to Support Staff**here

Instructions:

1. Step: Start Terminal

Unix: start your prefered terminal, e.g. xterm, ...

OS X: Use Spotlight to find "Terminal.app" and open it

2. Step: Using nano to create script:
In Terminal type in

nano [path]/rcon.sh

"[path]/" is optional, if you want your script in a different directory than ~/ (which is your homedir. On OS X e.g. /Users/admin)

3. Step: Paste following code to the terminal after entering your [router-ip] and login data to [user] and [pw]

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn telnet [router-ip]
expect "Username : "
send "[user]\r"
expect "Password : "
send "[pw]\r"
expect "=>"
send "ppp ifdetach\r"
expect "intf"
send "INTERNET\r"
expect "=>"
send "ppp ifattach\r"
expect "intf"
send "INTERNET\r"
expect "=>"
send "exit\r"

Click "show" for a sample for those who are not sure how to change the script:

Spoiler:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn telnet 10.0.0.138
expect "Username : "
send "admin\r"
expect "Password : "
send "admin\r"
expect "=>"
send "ppp ifdetach\r"
expect "intf"
send "INTERNET\r"
expect "=>"
send "ppp ifattach\r"
expect "intf"
send "INTERNET\r"
expect "=>"
send "exit\r"

Press

Ctrl + X

then type in "y" for saving changes and hit enter.

To mark the script as executable type in

chmod +x  [path]/rcon.sh

Use "[path]/" only if you choosed an other directory above.

4. Step: Settings in JDownloader:

Go to Settings --> Modules --> Reconnection --> External
Press "Select" and point to the script location.

Note: If you used an other method for reconnecting before, it is possibly necessary to clear all other reconnection tabs to make sure that jDownloader uses the right method.

Parameters are unecessary here, the timeout for execution could be set to 3 secs.

To test press: "Change IP"

Hopefully it works for you too

Note: There are ports of "expect" for Windows too (TCL). So feel free to experiment
Links:

**External links are only visible to Support Staff**

thanks

Thanks:thumbup:

how to create for windows XP

Yet not working ;(
OS 10.6.2 snow leopard, latest JD

i can confirm, that it works still using OS X 10.6.3.

are you sure that you followed the steps correctly?

hope this work with me