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/WifiScanAndMapseems 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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