let us know how it turns out :D
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@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@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=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
Wifi Map makerÂ
DISCLAIMER: Haven't tried it.



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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, James Finstrom
<jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com <mailto:jfinstrom@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.

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    On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com
    <mailto:lthielster@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 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
        <michael@butash.net <mailto:michael@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/


                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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