[Announce] WiFik - WiFi Scanner
 

Hi, I made a simple wifi scanner using wireless-tools..


If you have developer mode it should automatically download wireless-tools..

Download from here:
https://projects.developer.nokia.com/wifik/downloads/1

please test it and give me feedback, if for some reason it doesn't show your networks try running it from terminal after running develsh

/opt/wifik/bin/wifik

Here's the source if you want it..

http://projects.developer.nokia.com/wifik

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A very good app which fills a hole in the N9 appstore. I couldn't get it to work (no network shown) as I don't have developer mode installed. I'll wait for another release which doesn't require running from terminal.

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I'm working on that but there's no documentation on how to access wifi networks.. I'll update when I get it.. you don't have developer mode installed? but it downloaded the dependecy (wireless-tools)?

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When i installed the .deb file it prompted me that a dependency of 132kB need to be installed. Not sure if that is the wireless-tools or not but it could not find any network.

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wireless-tools is part of the Nokia repository, and package-manager automatically takes care of dependencies.

Make sure to clean up the alignment, and implement the error checking we talked about on #harmattan!

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Thanks, I tought wireless-tools was in other repo..

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Thanks a lot, this was one of the few apps I was missing :)

If you're thinking of polishing up the UI later, a graph model like in Wifi Analyzer on Android would be awesome:

https://market.android.com/details?i...YW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ..

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Does it show "hidden" networks?

Edit: It doesn't show any network. Even not the ones without a "hidden" SSID. So I uninstalled... :(

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There's a wifi scanning app for Maemo5 which is also pretty good to be used as reference. Unfortunately it has not been ported to Harmattan.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/wifiinfo/

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I checked that app, as suggested by a lot of people, but it uses a dbus call that returns an empty reply in harmattan, I don't like my implementation (parsing the output of iwlist) but is what I can give you today, I'll keep trying other options..

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Thanks for this... It partially solved my wlan-problem... One of the neighbor has AP configured in same channel... damn...

Keep up good work!

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You mean you've got it working? Did you run from terminal?

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Iktwo there is an app which is very close called QAD Signal by juhapekka
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82487

Quote from his last post:
Technically speaking the application just provides an UI to the data which is available from the QML NetworkInfo ( http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility/qml-networkinfo.html) and the mac address is read using the QNetworkInterface class from Qt 4.7 (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qnetworkinterface.html).

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Yes and yes.

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QAD Signal uses NetworkInfo which it's not capable of showing the MAC address of WiFi Networks, so, I preferred wireless-tools..

About running from terminal, it's weird, sometimes I run it from the menu and it works just fine.. I'm looking in it..

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I'm running from menu and I can get it to display some networks some of the time by changing the position of the auto scan slider but the effect is not predictable. Most times it display nothing then after many attempts it may display once.

What is the time scale slider for? Also it will be great it can display numerical signal strength in dB and type of password protection like WPA, WPA2 or WPS.

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Hope you get it sorted out. Please don't give up. I'm also waiting anxiously for this app.

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Hi Iktwo, have you give up on your wi-fi scanner? This would be a shame because it's almost working. Anyway I've contacted the Russian programmer who did MeeFastDial and MeeRadioMode and he is willing to give it a shot. Let's hope somebody succeeds because Harmattan is really missing this app.

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Giving up? Never.. I just don't know where to go, I'll start a new thread with all the info I have on WiFi for Harmattan, hope everyone see it and someone comes with a solution, I tried everything but I don't find a solution..

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Just digging more "this and that"... When i changed line how to start WiFik from "blaah...invake...blaah/wifik" to: "develsh -c /opt/wifik/bin/wifik" from "WiFik-application(or-what-evö).desktop", it worked from tapping "icon" also...

Not sure why...

At least N9 must be connected wlan before WiFik working... And if security is WPA1 or lower, then this brutal solution is working, for me, at least... but not with WPA2... really weird... [I also noticed that with lower security, N9 don't drop connection so easily... (This can be caused by "wind", "stars" and "the cat is on the moon...")]

When not connected to wlan, then N9 automatically drops wlan interface down and "iwlist" does not work ofcourse...

Really. That difference between security and AP:s... "does not compute"...

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Sorry again...

Must confirm that this ugly solution is working, at least for me.

Just change:

Exec=/usr/bin/invoker --type=d -s /opt/wifik/bin/wifik

to:

Exec=devesh -c /opt/wifik/bin/wifik

from that "start-wifik-application-harmattan.desktop" -file...

This dirty solution helps a while, when we have to wait new wlan-radar

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Where can I find this "start-wifik-application-harmattan.desktop" -file?

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/usr/share/applications/wifik_harmattan.desktop IIRC

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Thank you. Btw the Russian developer says he has done the API for a wifi scanner and is now working on the GUI. Hopefully we will have it soon.

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Tried this but doesn't work for me. Wifik refused to launch from the menu.

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Then there must be typing-error or something or somewhere...

For me, at least, this is working...

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I put a space after devesh and a space after -c. Is that right?

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damn... there was typo in my example...

Exec=develsh -c /opt/wifik/bin/wifik

develsh not devesh ;)

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Done that and the app started but can only detect one network (my own) although there are many other networks in my location.

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Good news! The wifi scanner app by the Russian developer has reach beta version. I'm testing it now and it seems good enough. Expect a release version soon.

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Who's the developer? hope he's releasing the source code so everyone can benefit..

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The developer is Artem Bukin who also released MeeFast Dial and MeeRadioMode. You can ask him about the source code when it is released. Contact detail will be in the app.

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Excuse me my english, ¿its project for s60 th, nokia c6-00?
Thanks

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[pacocable] you are in section "MeeGo / Harmattan". Have you this on your mobile ? :-)

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Under which licence is it published ? Please consider moving to gitourious.org

I can help if needed

great it's there :

https://gitorious.org/harmattan-apps/wifik