Comments on: Wireless Heatmap

By: Interesting Reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

Interesting Reading… – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:36:44 +0000

[...] Wireless Heatmap – “I wrote an application to generate a wireless (802.11) heat map based on signal strength. The reason for it was to find the best place/area (for my laptop) to be with the highest signal strength…” [...]

By: Visualizing the Repository « Sound Alliance Developers

Visualizing the Repository « Sound Alliance Developers — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:12:15 +0000

[...] In the past I’ve released a few visualization tools such as Python Call Graph and Wireless Heatmap. One Friday afternoon I decided to run code_swarm on our Subversion repository which has all the [...]

By: Gerald Kaszuba

Gerald Kaszuba — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:54 +0000

@Alex,

Yes it does do multiple signals from different access points, but no functionality to overlay. It wouldn’t be too difficult to implement though.

By: Alex Huxham

Alex Huxham — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:50:52 +0000

Would heat.py be able to plot/draw a heat map for multiple access points in the same building? And overlap signals between these?

By: Gerald Kaszuba

Gerald Kaszuba — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:20:59 +0000

@rasmus:

There is a download section on the left navigation when you’re viewing a file, e.g.:

http://misc.slowchop.com/misc/browser/wirelessheatmap/trunk/heat.py

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:52:06 +0000

I have installed linux and now the program is running
But it won’t draw the overlay image, and crashes when I click in the window? I copy/pasted the code from the Trac, but I had to remove the numbers myself and fix indentation, so I think some indentation is wrong! Is there an easier way to download the code (fx. snv client?)

Help :

By: George

George — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:15:01 +0000

I work for an integration company – customers pay for this and a tool like this would be something that could easily be sold in the shareware market. It’s great for those DIY customers who need to add additional APs and don’t want to pay for the work to be performed by a vendor.

By: Gerald Kaszuba

Gerald Kaszuba — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:10:13 +0000

@Rasmus,

Yes, you might have to do it in Linux. I don’t know for sure though!

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:37:11 +0000

Hello, I would like this to work for Windows somehow
It seems that the aircrack-ng suite won’t work for Windows without developing my own DLL’s for my network card.
I have also tried lewifi, but it depends on python-wifi, which uses fcntl, so again it does not work on Windows

Maybe my last option is to install Linux?

By: Mitch Strand

Mitch Strand — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:07:09 +0000

This is a great idea. Kudos man! Hell, I would certainly be willing to purchase this program if it had a GUI. As it is, I still say that you should package it.