SAsargstuff·Mar 12, 2024Submission
3 points · Open discussionNischay-Pro
wifi-heat-mapper
Python2021–2024
Nischay-Pro / wifi-heat-mapper
wifi-heat-mapper
whm also known as wifi-heat-mapper is a Python library for benchmarking Wi-Fi networks and gather useful metrics that can be converted into meaningful easy-to-understand heatmaps.
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What it is
whm also known as wifi-heat-mapper is a Python library for benchmarking Wi-Fi networks and gather useful metrics that can be converted into meaningful easy-to-understand heatmaps.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesI've built whm [0] also known as WiFi heatmap generator. This project is actually just a week old. For the past few weeks I was searching for a proper tool that can benchmark and profile my Access Point locations at my home. Tried a lot of android and windows apps and got frustrated using them. So I ended up making whm and releasing it to public. The project currently is able to capture metrics like WiFi latency, jitter TCP and UDP bandwidth across iperf3, speedtest and librespeed.
I tried using the paid ones like NetSpot but I preferred more flexibility not to mention their app did not work properly on my Android 11 device and I preferred a more opensource approach.
I tried an open source tool made by Jason Antman called Wifi survey map [1] but it did not have support for multiple APs and does not support speedtest benchmarking.
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I've built whm [0] also known as WiFi heatmap generator. This project is actually just a week old. For the past few weeks I was searching for a proper tool that can benchmark and profile my Access Point locations at my home. Tried a lot of android and windows apps and got frustrated using them. So I ended up making whm and releasing it to public. The project currently is able to capture metrics like WiFi latency, jitter TCP and UDP bandwidth across iperf3, speedtest and librespeed. So far its only me who is maintaining it and hopefully some might be interested in it.
[0]: https://github.com/Nischay-Pro/wifi-heat-mapper
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