Wifi analyzer Is a thorough application on android for managing WAP, wifi strength signal etc. I was wondering if there was a similar tool for ubuntu
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Network manager command line interface nmcli
nmcli d wifiThis is an output of command:
* SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY 151022 Infra 4 54 Mbit/s 74 ▂▄▆_ mary Infra 4 54 Mbit/s 74 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 151022 Infra 40 54 Mbit/s 70 ▂▄▆_ mary5 Infra 40 54 Mbit/s 60 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 Don Ceci Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 34 ▂▄__ WPA1 WPA2 epg72 Infra 11 54 Mbit/s 34 ▂▄__ WPA1 WPA2 Mitio Paynera Infra 2 54 Mbit/s 24 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 Nina Infra 1 54 Mbit/s 17 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 Filka Infra 10 54 Mbit/s 17 ▂___ WPA1 Mihaylov Infra 11 54 Mbit/s 14 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 HomeS2000 Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 7 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 alex1 Infra 7 54 Mbit/s 7 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 epg72 Infra 11 54 Mbit/s 7 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 Valia Infra 11 54 Mbit/s 7 ▂___ WPA1 WPA2 Silviq Infra 10 54 Mbit/s 4 ____ WPA2 But you can use:
nmcli -f "CHAN,BARS,SIGNAL,SSID" d wifi list ifname wlx10feed21ae1d | sort -nand output will be sorted by channel:
CHAN BARS SIGNAL SSID
1 ▂___ 17 Nina
2 ____ 0 Yankovi
2 ▂___ 24 Mitio Paynera
3 ____ 4 JORODLINK
4 ▂▄▆_ 70 151022
4 ▂▄▆_ 70 mary
5 ▂___ 7 Hristo
6 ____ 0 HomeS2000
6 ▂___ 27 Don Ceci
6 ____ 4 malevi
6 ____ 4 milcho.uzunov
7 ____ 4 alex1
10 ▂___ 10 Filka
10 ▂___ 7 Silviq
11 ▂___ 10 Mihaylov
11 ▂▄__ 34 epg72
11 ____ 4 Valia
11 ▂___ 7 epg72
40 ▂▄▆_ 60 mary5
40 ▂▄▆_ 67 151022 For continues scan you can combine with command "watch":
watch "nmcli -f "CHAN,BARS,SIGNAL,SSID" d wifi list ifname wlx10feed21ae1d | sort -n"You could use Wavemon. It's available in the Software Center, (or via apt, sudo apt-get install wavemon).
Screenshot from Wavemon's Github (GPLv3).
Once you have installed wavemon, open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and type wavemon.
You could use linssid which offers a nice easy to use GUI for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels.
To install linssid in Ubuntu 16.04 and later type:
sudo apt install linssidThere is one more tool In Ubuntu software Centre named as Kismet.
Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. It is capable of sniffing using almost any supported wireless card using the Airo, HostAP, Wlan-NG, and Orinoco (with a kernel patch) drivers.
Can make use of sox and festival to play audio alarms for network events and speak out network summary on discovery. Optionally works with gpsd to map scanning.
you can install it from terminal( CTRL+ALT+T) also with
sudo apt-get install kismet
