Looking for Linux Equivalent Program
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Thu Jun 20 09:24:42 MST 2013
It just occurred to me that if you could find a tool that made heat maps
in general that it would be relatively trivial to create a script that
just continuously polled your wifi strength and GPS location and gave
you a textfile that you could feed into your heat map generating software.
I did a little searching with splitting the tasks in mind and I found
that kismet or droidstumbler will log the necessary data (
http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/projects/heatmap/wiki/datacoll ) and then
you can use kisheat ( http://code.google.com/p/kisheat/ ) to display it
overlayed on good maps.
This ( http://sunng87.github.io/heatcanvas/ ) looks like it might be a
another possibility.
I'm certain that something could be hacked up to work with Grass GIS (
http://grass.osgeo.org/ ), but thats like using a sledge hammer to kill
a fly.
I don't really see anything that does exactly what you want all in one
package. Perhaps you might be able to use a hybid solution where you
use linux/android to collect the data and then import it into the other
software under wine.... if it even works.
Brian Cluff
On 06/20/2013 07:51 AM, Dazed_75 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
> <mailto: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 at rhinoequipment.com>
> <mailto:jfinstrom at __rhinoequipment.com
> <mailto: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
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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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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