<div dir="ltr">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. <br>
<br>Thanks for all the input and discussion folks.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. :)<br>
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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.<br>
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On 06/19/2013 08:01 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote:<br>
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This "might" be better after looking at the comments...I use it, and it<br>
does not "map", but does tell me what is available and how strong the<br>
signal is, and the SSID:<br>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/<u></u>apps/details?id=com.farproc.<u></u>wifi.analyzer&feature=search_<u></u>result#?t=<u></u>W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm<u></u>9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ</a><br>
..<br>
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At 03:43 PM 6/19/2013, James Finstrom wrote:<br>
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looks like this android app does this....<br>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiMapMakerFree" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/<u></u>apps/details?id=com.hogdex.<u></u>WifiMapMakerFree</a><br>
Wifi Map makerÂ<br>
DISCLAIMER: Haven't tried it.<br>
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Seems like something easily done in python. Â This does require<br>
gps so thinking it would be better as an android app.<br>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 <<a href="mailto:lthielster@gmail.com" target="_blank">lthielster@gmail.com</a><br></div><div class="im">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:lthielster@gmail.com" target="_blank">lthielster@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Lisa,<br>
<br>
I did not try it in WINE. I am just enough of a bigot to<br>
look for a pure Linux solution first since I do not have a<br>
work project I need to complete.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/cyberpython/WifiScanAndMap" target="_blank">https://github.com/<u></u>cyberpython/WifiScanAndMap</a> seems to<br>
indicate something far from having a polished GUI and looks to<br>
be at a significantly lower map resolution (though worth a<br>
look if nothing else turns up).<br>
<br>
The Meraki FAQ (<br>
<a href="http://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless/wifi-mapper#faq" target="_blank">http://meraki.cisco.com/<u></u>products/wireless/wifi-mapper#<u></u>faq</a> )<br>
says "A: WiFi Mapper requires Java support and does not<br>
currently support Linux."<br>
<br>
Michael,<br>
<br>
Yep on the corner on the market. Makes one thonk it could be<br>
a great opportunity for a FOSS project. :)<br>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Michael Butash<br></div><div><div class="h5">
<<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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I've been working on a wireless project for months, and<br>
looked around for things oss like heatmapping, rtls<br>
function, etc, and there's nothing too well baked to use<br>
production-wise aside from some half-baked, minimally<br>
existing projects on sourceforge.<br>
<br>
Seems commercial software like Aruba Airwave, Cisco<br>
WLS/Prime, Ekahau, etc have the lock on things from that<br>
perspective.<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 06/19/2013 09:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:<br>
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I ran across this article:<br>
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<a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/165614/how-to-create-a-wi-fi-heatmap-for-network-analysis-better-coverage-and-geek-cred-galore/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/<u></u>165614/how-to-create-a-wi-fi-<u></u>heatmap-for-network-analysis-<u></u>better-coverage-and-geek-cred-<u></u>galore/</a><br>
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<br>
which shows doing a very nifty wifi map of your space.<br>
 Unfortunately it<br>
uses a windows only program from Ekahau called<br>
HeatMap. Â I did a little<br>
web searching for a Linux equivalent program but have<br>
not found anything<br>
that included the mapping function. Â Does anyone know<br>
of one?<br>
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