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Hello,

Anyone know if it is possible to get the MAC address for my WiFi device (of the phone, not router)?

Hi

You can use action "Execute command" and use one of the commands:

ifconfig wlan0 | grep HWaddr | awk -F" " '{ print $5}'

ip link show wlan0 | grep eth | awk -F" " '{ print $2}'

Maybe there are better solutions

Thanks for the info. Grep does not work for me when using Execute Command, and "ip link show wlan0" gives me a permission denied error.

Here is what I did in case anyone has the same problem:

Get the result of "ip link" (using Execute Command block) into a variable (in this case "iplink").

Then process result:

start=indexOf(iplink, "wlan");
pos1=indexOf(iplink, "ether", start)+6;
pos2=indexOf(iplink, "brd", start)-1;
mac=substring(iplink, pos1, pos2);
//do whatever you want with your mac after this to process as needed
global_mac=replace(mac, ":", "");

Regards,
Sam.