Mac Address

[mathieson]

Hello,

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

[piskor]

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

[mathieson]

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.