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wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:23 pm
by txm0523
This is a request to have wifi-radar package in the repositories. I have used this application in the past to check how many people are on each wifi channel and to be able to select a channel without many people on it. Is there any possibility of having that package in the repositories ? I don't know if it is still being maintained, but it was an awesome application.
Thanks
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:31 pm
by Jerry3904
It doesn't look like it exists anywhere except in Debian Buster, now 2 versions ago--no development since 2015.
https://git.tuxfamily.org/wifiradar/wifiradar.git/
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:02 pm
by Stevo
It used the GNOME 2 python bindings, which was removed from Debian after Buster.
Maybe the closest application to it is linssid, which is in the Debian repositories.
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:09 pm
by CharlesV
+1 for linssid I have had and used that on my laptops for a long time and it is great. ( Only surpassed by Ubiquiti's WiFiMan on android. )
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:18 pm
by timkb4cq
WiFi Radar is an old python2/gtk2 app and Linux distributions have moved on to python3 and gtk3 and/or gtk4.
Unfortunately I don't anybody out there trying to convert it to current tools/libraries.
I do see an
Android app with the same name. Having never used WiFi Radar I can't tell you if it's similar in functionality.
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:24 pm
by txm0523
Thanks for the information. I will check out linssid.
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:11 pm
by davidy
Linssid is nice. I still have a version of wifiradar that works in winblows somewhere. It's interesting to see all the networks using spectrum and even a couple mesh types. I'm on Hunter Fiber now and it's way better than spectrum from my perspective.
Re: wifi-radar
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:42 pm
by Stevo
I've ported over sparrow-wifi
https://github.com/ghostop14/sparrow-wifi from Kali Linux, but without the feature to warfly your neighborhood with a drone, since that needed a lot more python3 package ports. It'll be in the MX 21 and 23 test repos, but you can get it and its two new dependencies here early:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hf6zd7 ... sp=sharing