Tested.

It works fine, and will be convenient.

Thank you.

[ Reply to This | # ]

You mention there is a different script for Tiger. Do you have a website where it is available, or can you post it in the comments here?

[ Reply to This | # ]

I tested, works on Tiger just fine.
No need for any modifications.

[ Reply to This | # ]

I have two airport stations in my house: an Airport Extreme (named "Airport Bedroom") and an Airport Express (named "Express - Living Room"). When Airport Utility is launched, Airport Bedroom shows at the top of the list, and Express - Living Room is second.

The script works fine in selecting the first one to show in the list: Airport Bedroom.

But when I duplicated the script and tried to tweak it to pick the second it doesn't work -- always picks the first of the two in the list.

The tweak I did was in the line tell window 1 --"AirPort Utility - Extreme Base" -- I changed "Extreme Base" to "Express - Living Room".

But it still picks the Airport Bedroom at the top of Airport Utility's list.

Any clues as to how to fix?



[ Reply to This | # ]

I found it necessary to make a couple of adjustments (sorry, don't have a solution to the problem of selecting which base station). If it happens that Airport Utility is already open, and the Manual Setup has already been selected, I had the script fail with an error. Instead of these lines:

tell window 1
    click button "Manual Setup"

I replaced them with these lines:

tell menu bar item "Base Station"
    tell menu 1
        click menu item "Manual Setup"
        delay 10
    end tell
end tell

I also increased the delay after activating the script to delay 10, and the delay after "say 'Restarting Airport'" to 5, which works better with my setup. Great script! My airport base station seems to disappear from my laptop after a couple of days, making printing wirelessly impossible to the printer attached to the wired computer connected to the ethernet on the base station. Restarting the station fixes it, so I've got the "Restart Airport" script set to automatically run every morning at 2 am.

---
Steven Weyhrich
http://apple2history.org

[ Reply to This | # ]

This script worked as described for me.

I find that my USB Air Disk I have hooked up has been inconsistent in its function.
I frequently lose the ability to Log in to the password protected disc. Rebooting has been the only solution.
The disc can always mount as a guest user.
This happens enough that I made this script an application that I assigned a HotKey with Quicksilver.

Any suggestions other than rebooting?

[ Reply to This | # ]

I think this hint assumes that you have saved your base station password in your keychain so that the Airport Utility does not prompt for a password.

[ Reply to This | # ]

I had to check the box "Enable access for assistive devices" in the "Universal Access" System Preference before this would work. Very slick and I like the audio feedback after the script has run :)

Brad

[ Reply to This | # ]

Actually, just to clarify... My applescript would never launch with cron, because my screensaver always interfered and something with user permissions too. Rather than figure out how to simulate a mouse click and resolve the permissions issue, I ended up just having iCal do it for me and everything was peachy.



[ Reply to This | # ]