📈Web-Based Wi-Fi Scanner

Special shout out to Bryan Ward and Kjetil Teigen Hansen, thanks to these guys, we can bundle up some remarkable dashboards as part of our WLAN Pi image. This equips you with pre-built dashboards that are good to go, but, naturally, you can further modify to suit your requirements.

Addictive Activity Warning!

Once you begin creating your own dashboards, you may experience difficulty stopping.

You have been warned 😊

If you build something cool with Grafana and you would like to share, please get it in touch with the WLAN Pi team.

Data Streams

Before we start exploring the dashboards, it is important to understand how the WLAN Pi collects the data to be visualised.

The WLAN Pi team has created several 'Data Stream' scripts that collect values such as RSSI, BSSIDs, SSIDs etc. You will find the list of pre-built “Data Stream” scripts within the Grafana menu item, these scripts may be started and stopped from this menu.

1. If Grafana is not running, please start it now.\

2. You should be able to see the available Data Streams:\

   

   List of Grafana Data Stream scripts
3. Start Scanner WLAN0 Data Stream using the play (▶) button.\

   

   Start and stop Data Streams with the play / pause icon
4. From the Grafana home page, open the Scanner dashboard\

   

   Open up the Scanner dashboard
5. Voilà! Here is a Wi-Fi scanner built using Grafana.\

   

   Boom, SSIDs, and RSSI plotted before your eyes within a browser

Before you move on to the next lab, stop the Data Stream script, in the same way you started it, from the Grafana menu drop down.