Many GUI's have some means to show the wifi signal strength.. Volumio is a very nice one, and even breaks it down to AP if you have multiple AP's with the same SSID...nice
But dietpi I think would be great to have some means to display in text at least some signal strength indication so as one can determine is it is adequate for its location or if perhaps might be best serviced with a wired LAN connection, or maybe even a USB solution where it's based on the built in Solutions like RPi 3 has on board.
If there is a away please enlighten me...
Wifi signal strength, is there a way to show it
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Re: Wifi signal strength, is there a way to show it
if you want to know the signal strengths of the APs you are attached to for all your wireless devices use
iwconfig
For all the APs in your area
iwlist wlan0 scan
Gordon Williams
iwconfig
For all the APs in your area
iwlist wlan0 scan
Gordon Williams
Re: Wifi signal strength, is there a way to show it
Yep, +1 for iwconfigGord_W wrote:if you want to know the signal strengths of the APs you are attached to for all your wireless devices use
iwconfig
For all the APs in your area
iwlist wlan0 scan
Gordon Williams
Wireless stats (scraped from iwconfig) are also available in dietpi-config > Networking: Adapaters > WiFi
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Re: Wifi signal strength, is there a way to show it
Worked a treat...thanks guys