How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

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soy.dmr
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How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

Post by soy.dmr » 25 Jul 2014 22:19

Hello.

I want to make a log file with SSIDs and signal strength, but I don´t see how to do that. So How I can get SSIDs connected or not to some one? like android OS, on wifi setup options.

Regards and thank you in advance.

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Martin
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Re: How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

Post by Martin » 26 Jul 2014 13:34

Hi,

Automagic only provides a way to get the signal strength of the connected SSID with condition WiFI Signal Strength. Also check out the provided variables in the help page of the condition.
You can get the signal strength changes of the connected SSID with trigger General Broadcast and the provided example WiFi Signal Level (Android usually only sends the change when the display is turned on).

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Martin

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Re: How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

Post by soy.dmr » 04 Aug 2014 16:12

OK, thank you for the support.

Let me share my thoughts.

I want to make a flow to make a Data base of SSIDs around my paths and do a profile after that, I think, wifi radio is faster and more battery friendly that GPS, and in my paths I have too much no signal areas, except wifi.

I don´t want connect on each SSID, only need SSID name and signal strength. Do you have some idea?

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Re: How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

Post by Martin » 04 Aug 2014 16:56

You could use an action WiFi Scan and a trigger WiFi Scan Results Available to check which wifi access points are available. You could also use a condition WiFi Available to access the scan results periodically in a flow. Both methods won't provide the signal strength of each access point. Do you really want to take the signal strength into account to determine your location?

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Re: How to get, SSID and wifi signal strength?

Post by soy.dmr » 04 Aug 2014 17:57

Only to discriminate, but not strictly necessary.

Thank you so much

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