Looking for Linux Equivalent Program
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 08:03:51 MST 2013
let us know how it turns out :D
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have used WiFi Analyzer for years on my phone and on a couple of
> tablets. It is useful to spot channel conflicts and to see what is
> available in a location and relative strengths of different nets. It is
> NOT useful for the Heatmap analysis of a home or office without a lot of
> manual work. Hence my interest in the product initially asked about. I
> guess it is time to try it under WINE in the next day or two.
>
> Thanks for all the input and discussion folks.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>
>> I use inssider on my tablet for quickie survey data, it looks similar to
>> wifi analyzer and is free too. Either is probably good in a pinch, and
>> then some.
>>
>> I bought a spectrum analyzer, a metageek dbx, that unfortunately has most
>> investment of features in windoze software, but kismet has a side project
>> spectools to get basic readings out of it graphically as well for linux.
>> For the windoze software, I feed the device into virtual box on an xp
>> instance along with a wifi nic, and this gives me most all the
>> functionality of both worlds.
>>
>> Mapping though, I didn't see much about the one wifiscanandmap vs.
>> something like ekahau or airmagnet survey suites. Oh yeah, their main site
>> was dead then too which didn't help me wanting to bother get working. Of
>> course the commercial tools are a good 5-10k for the tools, require
>> windoze, and still come with quirks to use, but do what you generally need,
>> which is record and display overlays of the traffic adequately.
>>
>> If wifiscanandmap can, I'll definitely check it out again. Otherwise I'm
>> just gonna get my company to buy me airmagnet suites at some point. :)
>>
>> I was hoping there was something for rtls location tracking in linux, but
>> there were only a few abandoned projects out there. Wifi mapping suites
>> like airwave are only so accurate without rtls, but rtls is much nicer for
>> realtime mapping accuracy, such as rfid tracking of .11 tags.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/19/2013 08:01 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
>>
>>> This "might" be better after looking at the comments...I use it, and it
>>> does not "map", but does tell me what is available and how strong the
>>> signal is, and the SSID:
>>>
>>> https://play.google.com/store/**apps/details?id=com.farproc.**
>>> wifi.analyzer&feature=search_**result#?t=**
>>> W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm**9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> At 03:43 PM 6/19/2013, James Finstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> looks like this android app does this....
>>>>
>>>> https://play.google.com/store/**apps/details?id=com.hogdex.**
>>>> WifiMapMakerFree<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiMapMakerFree>
>>>> Wifi Map makerÂ
>>>> DISCLAIMER: Haven't tried it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *ಠ_ಠ*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, James Finstrom
>>>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com <mailto:jfinstrom@**rhinoequipment.com<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com>
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems like something easily done in python. Â This does require
>>>> gps so thinking it would be better as an android app.
>>>>
>>>> James Finstrom
>>>> Rhino Equipment
>>>> http://rhinoequipment.com
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *ಠ_ಠ*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Lisa,
>>>>
>>>> I did not try it in WINE. I am just enough of a bigot to
>>>> look for a pure Linux solution first since I do not have a
>>>> work project I need to complete.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/**cyberpython/WifiScanAndMap<https://github.com/cyberpython/WifiScanAndMap>seems to
>>>> indicate something far from having a polished GUI and looks to
>>>> be at a significantly lower map resolution (though worth a
>>>> look if nothing else turns up).
>>>>
>>>> The Meraki FAQ (
>>>> http://meraki.cisco.com/**products/wireless/wifi-mapper#**faq<http://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless/wifi-mapper#faq>)
>>>> says "A: WiFi Mapper requires Java support and does not
>>>> currently support Linux."
>>>>
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>> Yep on the corner on the market. Makes one thonk it could be
>>>> a great opportunity for a FOSS project. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Michael Butash
>>>> <michael at butash.net <mailto:michael at butash.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been working on a wireless project for months, and
>>>> looked around for things oss like heatmapping, rtls
>>>> function, etc, and there's nothing too well baked to use
>>>> production-wise aside from some half-baked, minimally
>>>> existing projects on sourceforge.
>>>>
>>>> Seems commercial software like Aruba Airwave, Cisco
>>>> WLS/Prime, Ekahau, etc have the lock on things from that
>>>> perspective.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/19/2013 09:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I ran across this article:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.howtogeek.com/**
>>>> 165614/how-to-create-a-wi-fi-**heatmap-for-network-analysis-**
>>>> better-coverage-and-geek-cred-**galore/<http://www.howtogeek.com/165614/how-to-create-a-wi-fi-heatmap-for-network-analysis-better-coverage-and-geek-cred-galore/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> which shows doing a very nifty wifi map of your space.
>>>> Â Unfortunately it
>>>> uses a windows only program from Ekahau called
>>>> HeatMap. Â I did a little
>>>> web searching for a Linux equivalent program but have
>>>> not found anything
>>>> that included the mapping function. Â Does anyone know
>>>> of one?
>>>>
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