UCI defaults

LEDE relies on UCI, the Unified Configuration Interface, to configure its core services. UCI Defaults provides a way to preconfigure your images, using UCI.

You can preload custom settings by adding batch scripts containing UCI commands into the /files/etc/uci-defaults directory. The path is identical for the buildroot and the image generator. The scripts will be run after the flashing process - in case of upgrading, that also includes appending the existing configuration to the JFFS2 partition (mounted as /overlay).Scripts should not be executable. To ensure your scripts are not interfering with any other scripts, make sure they get executed last by giving them a high prefix (e.g. zzzz_customisations). A basic script could look like this:

$ cat zzzz_customisations
#!/bin/sh

uci -q batch <<-EOT
  add dhcp host
  set dhcp.@host[0].name='bellerophon'
  set network.@host[0].ip='192.168.2.100'
  set network.@host[0].mac='a1:b2:c3:d4:e5:f6'
    EOT

Once the script has run successfully and exited cleanly (exit status 0), it will be removed from etc/uci-defaults. You can still consult the original in /rom/etc/uci-defaults if needed.

Scripts in /etc/uci-defaults will get executed at every first boot (i.e. after a clean install or an upgrade), possibly overwriting already existing values. If this behaviour is undesired, we recommend you implement a test at the top of your script - e.g. probe for a custom setting your script would normally configure:

[ "$(uci -q get system.@system[0].zonename)" = "America/New York" ] && exit 0

This will make sure, when the key has the correct value set, that the script exits cleanly and gets removed from /etc/uci-defaults as explained above.