catches wifi down exception and cycles epoch #1003
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Description
It has come up in several community threads that when attempting to use the wifi adapter to connect to a network, even after pausing Bettercap, the main loop will continue to call
agent.recon()
, causing a JSON decoding exception to be thrown with no chance to recover.This change allows the main loop to continue running, just with a pause, but by advancing to the next epoch, it triggers all the normal plugin hooks so that plugin code will have an opportunity to restart Bettercap once the wifi adapter can be freed up.
Motivation and Context
Addresses this issue: #207
How Has This Been Tested?
Tested on Raspberry Pi Zero W with pwnagotchi 1.5.5. Tested with a custom plugin that manipulates the availability of the wifi adapter, then restores the Bettercap wifi recon after disconnecting wifi. This small change is all that was required to support that plugin.
Types of changes
Checklist:
git commit -s