luci-app-wifihistory: add WiFi station history tracking

[DeborahOlaboye]

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• ( Optional ) Closes: Feature request: Associated Stations history #8109
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Description

Add a new luci-app-wifihistory package that tracks WiFi associated stations over time, addressing the lack of persistent station history in OpenWrt.

Currently iwinfo assoclist only returns live data once a client disconnects, it disappears. This package solves that by:

• Running a lightweight background service that polls iwinfo assoclist via ubus every 30 seconds
• Resolving hostnames/IPs through luci-rpc getHostHints
• Persisting all seen stations to /var/lib/wifihistory/history.json
• Marking stations as disconnected (rather than removing) when they leave the live assoclist

The LuCI view at Status > Station History displays a table with:

• Connected/Disconnected status
• MAC address, Hostname, IP
• Network (SSID)
• Last known Signal/Noise
• First seen / Last seen timestamps

Similar to AVM FritzBox's "not connected stations" feature.

[feckert]

Wouldn't it perhaps make sense to rewrite the service in ucode? That would be more efficient, since this is a service.

[feckert]

Thanks for rewriting this in ucode 👍

• Can you please squash the commits so there is only one commit.
• Please also fix CI/CD formal check luci-app-wifihistory: add WiFi station history tracking #8293 (comment)

[DeborahOlaboye]

Thanks for rewriting this in ucode 👍

• Can you please squash the commits so there is only one commit.
• Please also fix CI/CD formal check luci-app-wifihistory: add WiFi station history tracking #8293 (comment)

Alright, done.

[feckert]

CI/CD for Test Formatlities is still not happy

[DeborahOlaboye]

CI/CD for Test Formatlities is still not happy

Hopefully, CI/CD for Test Formatlities should be passing now after the latest checks.

[feckert]

LGTM We're almost done. Please take another look at my review comments.

Thanks for your work 👍

[DeborahOlaboye]

LGTM We're almost done. Please take another look at my review comments.

Thanks for your work 👍

Alright, thank you.

[DeborahOlaboye]

LGTM We're almost done. Please take another look at my review comments.
Thanks for your work 👍

All review comments addressed. Thanks for the thorough review.

[DeborahOlaboye]

@feckert , you're right, the file access is handled through the rpcd ucode plugin, so direct file ACL entries aren't needed. I have removed both.

[systemcrash]

Merged. Thanks @DeborahOlaboye !