Thanks for this, as you say it is an excellent place to start. I'm no programmer, so for the moment I'm just trying to provide proof of concept and demonstrate a use case.

I suppose I'm also trying to re-interest people in the idea itself; when I got my N900 there just weren't enough WiFi hotspots to make automation a sensible proposition. There are now, according to BT, over five million of them in the UK, and I understand that the national telcos of France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Brazil and others are doing likewise.

The perl client is not simple or elegant to install on the N900, because of dependencies that aren't easily met by Maemo; having understood how it works and made a successful login, I might look again at the python client as it would be easier to build into wifi assistant.

If I can come up with a "hack" solution that the average user can implement from a simple HOWTO, good enough for now, and as soon as people see the use for it, hopefully someone will build something better. I really think this could be a game-changer for the N900, who needs 4G if you can reliably get on WiFi?