wifi_scan package from wifi_scan repo

wifi_scan

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 0.1.0
License GPLv3
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/RafBerkvens/wifi_scan.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2014-02-10
Dev Status UNMAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

The wifi_scan package scans for RSSI values of visible APs

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Rafael Berkvens

Authors

  • Rafael Berkvens

Install

Before building this project using catkin, the Wireless tools development files must be installed:

$ sudo apt-get install libiw-dev

Then, if the project is in catkin/src/wifi_scan, do in the catkin folder:

$ catkin_make

After building it, the executable is available in catking/devel/lib/wifi_scan/, named fingerprint. To create a good fingerprint, the interface must send an RSSI request packet to all visible routers and wait for the responses. To send such a packet, root privileges are necessary. Since ROS is usually not installed in the root environment, we use the s mode bit and set the user and group of the executable to root:

$ sudo chown root devel/lib/wifi_scan/fingerprint
$ sudo chgrp root devel/lib/wifi_scan/fingerprint
$ sudo chmod ug+s devel/lib/wifi_scan/fingerprint

To check if all went well try if you get the following or similar output:

$ ls -l devel/lib/wifi_scan/fingerprint
-rwsrwsr-x 1 root root 221926 jul 24 15:22 devel/lib/wifi_scan/fingerprint

Usage

To start the node, do:

$ rosrun wifi_scan fingerprint

The default topic name is /wifi_fp, so you can change this when launching using:

$ rosrun wifi_scan fingerprint wifi_fp:=new_topic_name

The message type is a wifi_scan/Fingerprint. More information can be found in the Doxygen documentation.

Code

To browse the Doxygen documentation using Firefox as an example browser, do in the wifi_scan folder:

$ firefox doc/html/index.html

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

See ROS Wiki Tutorials for more details.

Source Tutorials

Not currently indexed.

Package Dependencies

System Dependencies

No direct system dependencies.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged wifi_scan at Robotics Stack Exchange