Looking for Linux Equivalent Program
Dazed_75
lthielster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 07:51:51 MST 2013
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> 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@**rhinoequipment.com<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
>>> http://rhinoequipment.com
>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/**rhinoequipment<http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment>
>>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/**RhinoEquipment<http://facebook.com/RhinoEquipment>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *ಠ_ಠ*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 <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>> 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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