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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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*
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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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> 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.
 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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