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RSSI mapper for muenchen.freifunk.net

I wanted a really mobile setup to measure the RSSI for our installations of muenchen.freifunk.net. It should be easy to carry and easy to us

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This project was created on 02/21/2016 and last updated 10 years ago.

Description

I wanted a really mobile setup to measure the RSSI for our installations of muenchen.freifunk.net. It should be easy to carry and easy to use.
As long it did not find a muenchen.freifunk.net node, it does display the number of surrounding Wifi nodes. When it did find one or more muenchen.freifunk.net nodes, it selects the one with the current highest RSSI and displays this via the NeoPixel ring. For the next 60 seconds, this node is fixed. If it is lost, the search starts from the beginning.
If you add a serial console all the found SSIDs and more information is available with 9600-8-n-1.

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  • 1 × Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 Feather
  • 1 × Adafruit NeoPixel ring 16 LEDs
  • 1 × bunch of wires
  • 1 × LiPo battery 3.7V

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filid wrote 05/24/2016 at 07:26 • point

I added a new project, which does GPS tracking and logging to a SD card.

https://www.linuxpinguin.de/project/wifiscanner/

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filid wrote 02/27/2016 at 14:23 • point

I updated the source code to introduce a watchdog timer, which catches issues in the WiFi subsystem

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filid wrote 02/25/2016 at 08:23 • point

Still working on this, but the ESP8266 boards don't have GPS and GPS draws a lot of power too. We currently do long exposure shots to build a heat map 

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PinheadBE wrote 02/25/2016 at 08:16 • point

Can't wait for more details...

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filid wrote 02/25/2016 at 08:23 • point

See https://www.linuxpinguin.de/project/rssi-mapper-for-muenchen-freifunk-net/

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PinheadBE wrote 02/25/2016 at 08:30 • point

Now you have my skull ;-)

Great work!

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Elliot Williams wrote 02/22/2016 at 10:34 • point

This project is screaming out for a GPS module and some data storage. 

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