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 > 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 > > .. > > 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 > > Wifi Map maker > DISCLAIMER: Haven't tried it. > > > > *ಠ_ಠ* > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, James Finstrom > > >> > > wrote: > > Seems like something easily done in python.  This does > require > gps so thinking it would be better as an android app. > > James Finstrom > Rhino Equipment > http://rhinoequipment.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/__rhinoequipment > > Facebook: http://facebook.com/__RhinoEquipment > > > > > *ಠ_ಠ* > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 > > >> 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 > 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 > ) > 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 > > >> 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/ > > > > which shows doing a very nifty wifi map of > your space. >  Unfortunately it > uses a windows only program from Ekahau called > HeatMap.  I did a little > web searching for a Linux equivalent > program but have > not found anything > that included the mapping function.  Does > anyone know > of one? > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. 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