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Auto reconnect to wifi when lost connection

Before you start, make sure ip command is available on your system. In modern Linux distributions, ip replaces older ifconfig command. If net-tools package (that includes ifconfig) is not installed and you prefer using it, you can install it via sudo apt-get install net-tools.

Create script file

Use touch /home/pi/wifi-reconnect.sh to create a shell script file, with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

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Install Libfreenect

Most of the instructions from this section originate from this aricle. Feel free to follow along with this gist or use the article.

Let's start by making sure our machine is up to date.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade