Disable Wifi Raspberry pi 4 Octopi

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What is the problem?
Due to unreliable wifi in my location, i would like to disable wifi completely and use ethernet connection. I cannot find setting / command to do this.

What did you already try to solve it?
Cannot find parameter to disable wifi in either
/boot/config.txt
raspi-config

Logs (syslog, dmesg, ... no logs, no support)

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Raspberry Pi 4 8Gb
Latest Octopi

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Just plugin the ethernet cable and you are fine.
Cable connection always is preferred.

If you want to be sure, delete your WiFi credentials in octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt.

Keep in mind, that the cable connection will have a different IP address.

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Thanks for that, i have made the necessary changes.

Appreciate it..

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You can also turn off the wifi radios on the pi by adding:
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
To the end of the /boot/config.txt file

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Just for Clarification on this, & make it clearer for future reference,
would the below be all correct, or do you need to comment out all lines in octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt

country=AU
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
ap_scan=1

#update_config=1
#network={
#	ssid="IITSxxxxxxx"
#	psk=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
#}

Along with this in /boot/config.txt

Or does leaving octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt as is & just changing config.txt fine for if I wish to occasionally re-enable it when working on switches.

dtoverlay=disable-wifi

Have an environment here with 7 AP's & over 65 clients at most times,
So getting rid of the radios on my 4 Pi's has it's benefits.

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