Wifi Scanner App for Linux, using Qt (https://www.qt.io/) and wifi-scan library (https://github.com/bmegli/wifi-scan). Inspired by the Analog Clock example app of Qt (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-analogclock-example.html).
The Wifi Scanner App is built under Linux, and it shows a circle shaped window with the surrounding access point names. The size of the arc in the circle and the darkness of the color indicates the signal strength of the Wifi AP. It was built and tested on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful). Qt version 5.9.1, QMake version 3.1, g++ version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2).
The build script will run qmake to generate the Makefile and the run make to build the app:
./build.sh
The qmake project file MeerkatWifiScannerLinux.pro contains the reference to be able to use libmnl which is needed to build the app.
QMAKE_CFLAGS += -lmnl
QMAKE_LIBS += -lmnl
If you don't have libmnl in your system, try the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential libmnl0 libmnl-dev
The app requires Qt as well, which can be installed with:
sudo apt-get install qtcreator qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev
./configure.sh
This script will get the default wireless adapter name and saves it to MeerkatWifiScanner.conf.
The Wifi Scanner app reads this config file to determine which Wireless Adapter needs to be used.
This script also calls xhost to ensure that the app can be run as root.
./run.sh
The Wifi Scanner app will run as root. This is needed to be able to query the list of AP's.
This Wifi Scanner App has MIT License (https://github.com/nlharri/WifiScannerLinux/blob/master/LICENSE). The Wifi Scanner library which is built in the app, has Mozilla Public License 2.0 (https://github.com/bmegli/wifi-scan/blob/master/LICENSE).
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.