PLDC LTE Modem Restarter

This little tool restarts your PLDC LTE modem. That's all. No need to manually log-in to your LTE modem and click several buttons to get you to restart button. Just call restarter.sh and it shall do the job of restarting your router.

This tool must work on this kind of modem.

So obviously, this won't work on other model.

How to use (linux users)

Things never get simpler for linux users (that's why I love linux). All you need to do is:

#1. Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/ghabxph/pldc-lte-restarter.git

#2. CD to the repo
cd pldc-lte-restarter

#3. Edit your restarter.sh using vim / nano
vi restarter.sh

#4. Copy your restarter to /usr/local/bin/pldc-lte-restart
cp restarter.sh /usr/local/bin/pldc-lte-restart

#5. Set file permission
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pldc-lte-restart

After doing the above steps, just call pldc-lte-restart and your PLDT LTE Router will magically restart.

Feel free to remove pldc-lte-restart folder after the setup, as you no longer need them

cd ..
rm -fvr pldc-lte-restart

How to use (non-linux)

The script is a bash script, so your machine must have bash*. You also need to have curl* installed.

First, edit restarter.sh and modify the password. Put your router password, and then run restarter.sh

Once you have that, simply run restarter.sh. Figure out yourself how to bind this restarter on your machine.

How does this tool work?

Two basic steps. Send POST request to goform/formLogin containing your router's username and password. And then just simply do a basic GET request to goform/RebootSettings

The router remembers your local IP address, so if you do login, even if you login to command line, if you visit idu/home.asp, you'll immediately see the home page. Not a very secure way of doing authentication, but I don't see any issue on that, as this tool is just for home use, and not for enterprise.

Last is, I used 192.168.1.1 as router's IP. That is the default IP of this modem. If you changed your router's IP for your personal reasons, then kindly change the IP to the correct one.

I said so many things (tl;dr). This entire blabber can just be summarized by these two pieces of code below.

# Log-in to the system
curl \
    --data "loginName=${USERNAME}" \
    --data "loginPassword=${PASSWORD}" \
    http://192.168.1.1/goform/formLogin

# Run reboot :D
curl http://192.168.1.1/goform/RebootSettings

Contribute guide

To make this project more friendly to non-technical people please submit pull request to this repo. I will review your changes, and will merge it to this repo if I find your PR useful. I am no longer going to make changes to this repo, as I intentionally created this script for myself. Help others by sending PR here. What's the goal for contributors? Make this tool easier to use, for windows users. I already forgot things about windows, so I need your help to make this a cross-platform tool.

How I make commit:

I use commitizen to properly format my git commits, but since this project is not really big, I am not going to be very sensitive on git commit format. Just create your own branch, and do PR to the master branch. It's just simple as that.