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- Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:57 pm
- Forum: Share Scan Results
- Topic: Unusual AP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19008
Unusual AP
attached is a kml file that includes all the positions recorded for this AP from 12 JUN through today. I don't know what to make of it. The apparent signal strength (scale of 0-100) is coded as the elevation above ground in meters.
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: Share Scan Results
- Topic: Unusual AP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19008
Unusual AP
i tried to get all the lat/lon/RSSIs for this AP, but there doesn't appear to be an easy way to do that. If I select the AP and export the kml, all I get is a single location. Right now it appears that I have to do this manually with cut and paste into Excel, then reformat it to my purposes. Is ther...
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:01 pm
- Forum: Share Scan Results
- Topic: Unusual AP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19008
Unusual AP
a little while ago i went down to where the wifidb.net reports as the position of "BroadbandHamnet-20-v3". Very interesting. Two different houses on the same street, about 3 houses apart. The first has a diagonally polarized panel antenna, aimed SW, on a mast. The second house, just to the...
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:44 am
- Forum: Share Scan Results
- Topic: Unusual AP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19008
Unusual AP
BroadbandHamnet-20-v3 2E:1E:2D:33:76:B7 I was going through my uploads and saw this particular SSID. Since the term "Ham" was in there, I'm assuming that it might have something to do with amateur radio operation. However, its coverage as evidenced by all the locations at which I've detect...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:22 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Right now the software estimates crudely the center of the pattern (lat(max)-lat(min), lon(max)-lon(min)), and points the camera (atop the tower at the listed elevation) at the ground at that spot. It's crude, but I will continue to tweak.
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:07 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
I am finally starting to learn a little KML, based upon what Vistumbler does to render the RSSI as a function of location. That's extremely cool. I can't generate kml itself, but I'm snipping together a file of a run I did here measuring the RSSI of a land-mobile radio base station atop a local peak...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:51 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
In the Uploader, I try to sort on "File" but the usual click on the title block doesn't resort the list. Also, for a bunch of files I collected today, the Uploader is reporting a WDB Status" of "error", with a status message of "File still not found after upload. It may...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
the Uploader looks like it's doing what it's intended to do, but each time I start it the vistumbler directory is not remembered. I checked the ini file to see if that got saved, but it looks like that's not one of the variables.
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:41 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
it appears that the first valid job is 4053, dated on the 22nd.
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:39 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
i was able to get it running - pretty interesting. However, I discovered that I had a bunch of bloated files in the directory, all at least 3 MB in size and over 300 of them. When you can, could you delete those from the input queue at WiFiDB? The dates will all be between 01 and 04 June.
- Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:38 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
thanks for this, Andrew. I am trying it out right now and it's asking for a WiFiDB Api Key. Is that my password? If so, I forgot it and requested a password reset at wifidb.net, but nothing happened, at least so it seems.
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Thanks for everything you guys do!
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:11 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Oh, another request. I'm lazy, and I hate having to upload manually the log files captured. In a perfect world, when my mobile setup got into a coverage zone, it would phone home to the database and see what files hadn't been transferred, then would transfer them. Of course, that's a perfect world.....
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:07 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
I made it to 55.55% of the overall database and am now slipping back a little as others start to add. Drat!
I have a question - is there a way to restrict scans to specific channels or a specific band (I have a 2.4 / 5.x GHz dual band client) in order to speed up the scan rate?
Cheers - Jon
I have a question - is there a way to restrict scans to specific channels or a specific band (I have a 2.4 / 5.x GHz dual band client) in order to speed up the scan rate?
Cheers - Jon
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
The last link you provided (to 4732) is from 200205 to 201642; this is already available via the arizonajon network link. That file is two datasets before the one I'm having troubles with. I've attached a copy of the file "2015-06-27 13-52-37_AutoSave.VS1". It's timestamped from 203628 to ...
- Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
On perhaps a slightly different topic, one run which to my knowledge has never displayed is the one with ID 4732 and file name 49507292_2015-06-27_13-52-37_AutoSave.VS1. This is part of a tour I was making one day, heading out Bethany Home Rd to its end then coming back on Indian School. On the GE d...
- Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
Hi guys - It's been a while - I got a new job in April and have been getting involved in that. However, a man's gotta drive, so I continue to collect APs. I'm up to over 54% of the overall database size. While that's fine from a statistics PoV, i have been suffering mightily from GE being unable to ...
- Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
Have you had a chance to look at the new kml generation api I was working on? ... https://live.wifidb.net/wifidb/api/export.php?func=exp_user_netlink&user=arizonajon This is similar to the daemon generate network link that allows you to see the newest, daily, and full database. the full databas...
- Sat Apr 18, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
About 40 minutes ago my 2nd month anniversary of participating in Vistumbler and the Wireless DataBase occurred. In that two months, I collected 209,821 unique and new APs, and met my goal of having contributed 40% of the existing current database. In fact, last night's hurried collecting put me at ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
We made a road trip to and from San Diego last week returning home last night. Vistumbler worked pretty flawlessly the whole time. It was hard to drive more than two miles in the city without collecting another 1k APs. While catching the flu put a bit of a damper on my travels, I was able to visit C...
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:42 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Ok, here's the test results from the new feature which allows the GUI to be optional. The video of the standard route is available at http://jonadams.com/videos/tahoecam_2015-03-14_Vistumbler_Test_Loop.mov The route is almost exactly 1.0 miles long, it is a full circle, no stop signs, no lights, res...
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I've tried exporting only my APs, but even after 15-30 minutes nothing happens. In fact, the page goes blank after about 15 minutes. Perhaps it takes a very long time? On the other hand, I've tried exporting other users' stuff, and it takes only a few moments. Even Andrew's file is only a 6 minute p...
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
The Mobius ActionCam is set up as a 1280x720 24-bit imager, with the compression at 50%, so image storage sizes range from about 40 (nighttime) to about 110 kB. The camera needs a bit more focusing, so the image sizes might get a bit larger if/when I take it apart and refocus it. If i turn down comp...
- Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
don't know why image2.png reported as no longer available. here it is
- Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I thought that the issue with GE crashing had been resolved through the cache emptying. Alas, it once again cannot survive having the WiFiDB Full export button selected. Memory usage quickly climbs to 3700+ MB and then shortly later it crashes. I've seen it survive memory usage of up to 3300 MB, the...
- Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
And the beer was excellent, well worth the 64 mile journey. Had a Peoria Artisan Brewery Savannah Marie IPA and a Heritage Red Ale. Both very nice. Ok, it's off to scoop up a few more APs - have to take the family to visit someone for their birthday celebration, and it's in an unexplored neighborhoo...
- Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
Hi Andrew and Phil - I received the prize! And it was two (2) shirts, which is even better than 1!!! I will be wearing them proudly when next visiting my local brewery :D Also, here's a link to a timelapse video of my drive to/from Peoria Artisan Brewery yesterday. Starts once I pull out of the driv...
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:26 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Beta 15 added Minimal Gui Mode (Options --> Minimal GUI Mode) which is the wardriving mode I was thinking of in the other post. This mode hides listview/treeview/graph. This (in theory) should give a performance increase since it doesn't need to write to the list and the tree. I added a feature to ...
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
It's a good thing there's a number of breweries some distance from the house.
Because of that excuse, I drove over to Peoria Artisan Brewery in Litchfield Park (about 32 miles each way). Collected a nice set of files. And had a great IPA and a bratwurst with grilled onions.
Because of that excuse, I drove over to Peoria Artisan Brewery in Litchfield Park (about 32 miles each way). Collected a nice set of files. And had a great IPA and a bratwurst with grilled onions.
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:07 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Surprised while driving down the street in Phoenix, Vistumbler said there was an update. Fortunately, I was in CoxWiFi coverage, it downloaded, and started up. Not sure what beta 15 does, but it's running now.
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:00 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Most Simultaneous active APs? (xxx/nnn)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10633
Most Simultaneous active APs? (xxx/nnn)
Today I had many in the 100+ range, but the big kahuna was 246 APs and (I think) 139 seconds. This location was about 1000' NW of my previous record. I was on a service road inside the huge Scottsdale Healthcare complex at the time, surrounded by hospital buildings. When I'm running Vistumbler mobil...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Most Simultaneous active APs? (xxx/nnn)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10633
Most Simultaneous active APs? (xxx/nnn)
Yesterday, while I was doing some driving near here, I got what was for me a new record of 183 APs in one loop, the loop time was 97 seconds, btw. Before, my tops had been 80 and 72. Vistumbler was very quiet for those 97 seconds, not a tick or a sproing! Fortunately, I was stopped in a parking lot ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
In addition to the GE problem, over the past few days the Chrome access to WiFiDB wasn't working for the Files Waiting for Import Files Already Imported Daemon Generated KMZ pages. The page would "stutter" every second or so and never load or finish loading. Had to switch to Firefox to get...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How many APs have been found in different locations?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16535
How many APs have been found in different locations?
This afternoon I noticed an AP here in Scottsdale which was first reported 5 years ago by one of Phil's drives. MAC 02:22:01:02:03:06 SSID Pronto Network 2 Was in MA, now in AZ. I went back to the neighborhood just now to see if I could successfully capture it to AZ, but wasn't able get close enough...
- Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:20 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I've got Windows Task Manager open now to see more about what's going on with GE. Start GE. CPU usage doesn't change much, bumps from 4-6% to 15-20% for several minutes, during which time GE is showing the box "Loading myplaces.kml, including enabled overlays". GE memory slowly ramps up to...
- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
Hi Phil - Thanks for the above. Works just as you say. Might be a nice way to limit the total number of APs that GE tries to render at any one time. For the past week or so, I've been having GE crash every time I click on the "Current WiFiDB Network Link" on this page https://live.wifidb.n...
- Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
With the drive to/from Tucson yesterday, I'm now up to 74011 APs!
- Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:46 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Good evening, all - Beta 13 has been plugging along very well for the past week or so, and is quite stable. The auto-save feature is smooth and quick; with a limit of 500 APs and 300-600 GPS positions, the save-restart operation usually only takes 10 seconds or so. My drive to and from Tucson yester...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:17 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Hi Jon, I let Andrew know about the problem, and he said turning off the new debugging feature should make that go away. Also, I guess Andrew wasn't too clear, and not to be rude but, the name of the software is Vistumber . No abbreviations, no capitol S, just Vistumbler. We are not sure where the ...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 5:44 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Darn. I just lost my entire post. I got a entry error and it was all gone... In brief: Excellent new feature, this auto-save, clear and restart. Most nice! I have it set to 500 APs for now, partially to see it work several times, but partially because my box is a little sluggish. Thanks also for the...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: Beta
- Topic: ViStumbler Betas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 210880
ViStumbler Betas
Wow! I restarted Vist this morning and all sorts of new features were there! I am experimenting with it now and will give you an update later once I've had the chance to make a few runs. Thanks for all this work! In other news, I switched to a different GPS receiver this morning and am going to see ...
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
In that particular drive (ID 2166 above), I'm looking at one of the APs collected, SSID 1d6058, MAC 20:25:64:1D:65:08 It shows 3 positions collected. Signal History (2015-03-06: 15:28:51 - 15:29:04) Export: KMZ / Graph Signal RSSI Lat Long Sats Date Time 62 -64 3334.0830 -11154.3847 8 2015-03-06 15:...
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
This is odd - I am looking at one of the drives I did yesterday, specifically ID# 2166 55188495_2015-03-06_08-53-10.VS1 None of these APs are in the WiFiDC Full DB Export. Going to the DB, I look at any one of the APs in that import, it shows that it was imported by arizonajon| Is that a pipe symbol...
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:01 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
This morning before going out I was up to about 42k APs. After I uploaded a number of files that I'd done earlier but forgotten to upload, my total count went down to about 40k, where it now stands. I'm hoping it will return!
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I created an api like I mentioned, so the newest ap is dynamically generated now You are going to need the latest " Combined KMZ Network Link " which has the new urls in it. Thanks for this, Andrew. Are the links for the "Newest" APs supposed to be working? They appear to time o...
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I don't know what you guys are doing, but now my latest upload is causing GE to march along moving from new AP to the next. I like that!
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
I am watching my GE display right now with the Newest AP w/fly to enabled, and it is moving every minute or so to a new AP in the Worcester area. Andrew's upload is being processed right now and it's neat to see the display moving around with each new AP. However, when I upload a drive, it rarely mo...
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: War driving contest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 721756
War driving contest
Snow would significantly slow progress I don't envy you guys living in that stuff. My sister-in-law lives in Westchester County NY (just north of the city) and this winter there really has been pretty tough.
Here, if we want crippling snow and weather, it's just a two-hour drive north!
Here, if we want crippling snow and weather, it's just a two-hour drive north!
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
not sure why the pictures didn't attach - let me try it again. Both screenshots were within about 30 seconds of one another. I wait about 60 seconds after clicking the WIFIDB GE radio buttons.
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:11 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Daemon Generated KML
- Replies: 68
- Views: 421992
Daemon Generated KML
Hi Phil -
Here you go.
Cheers - Jon
Here you go.
Cheers - Jon