enable Win10 inbuild hotspot by cmd/batch/powershell

Question

as the title says I search for a way to enable/disable the Hotspot inbuild in Win10 via the command prompt/powershell/a batch file. In the GUI it can be easily done with the

Answer 1

The Hosted Network (which can be configured using the netsh wlan set hostednetwork ... command) and the "new" Mobile Hotspot use different technologies under the hood.

There's a WinRT API to control and configure the "new" mobile hotspot you're referring to. You can call it from PowerShell:

The following code snippet requires Ben N.'s await function for IAsyncOperation and IAsyncAction in PowerShell, which can be found here.

$connectionProfile = [Windows.Networking.Connectivity.NetworkInformation,Windows.Networking.Connectivity,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]::GetInternetConnectionProfile()
$tetheringManager = [Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringManager,Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]::CreateFromConnectionProfile($connectionProfile)

# Be sure to include Ben N.'s await for IAsyncOperation:
# https://superuser.com/questions/1341997/using-a-uwp-api-namespace-in-powershell

# Check whether Mobile Hotspot is enabled
$tetheringManager.TetheringOperationalState

# Start Mobile Hotspot
Await ($tetheringManager.StartTetheringAsync()) ([Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringOperationResult])

# Stop Mobile Hotspot
Await ($tetheringManager.StopTetheringAsync()) ([Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringOperationResult])

The NetworkOperatorTetheringManager class also allows you to set the SSID and the passphrase of your hotspot programmatically.