wifindme 0.3.0

Get position based on wifi APs and radiocells.org or Mozilla location database.

Locates the current wifi-enabled computer using nearby access points and https://radiocells.org/geolocation or https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/FAQ or both.

Project home: https://github.com/ways/wifindme

Takes over from https://github.com/ways/locate-radiocells with the added benefit of Mozilla Location Services.

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Installation

$ pip install wifindme

Dependencies (handled by pip)

• https://github.com/rockymeza/wifi/

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/

Usage

Must run as root to get access to scanning on Linux.

Example use:

import wifindme
accuracy, latlng = wifindme.locate(device='wlan0')

Example script included in examples/, (prints out accuracy in meters, and coordinates):

$ sudo ./wifindme.py wlan0
30 (59.12345, 10.12345)

Compatibility

Python 2 and 3. Only tested on Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch).

Development info

example query sent to radiocells.org:

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"wifiAccessPoints":[{"macAddress":"24-DE-C6-A8-C9-64","signalStrength":-57}]}' https://radiocells.org/backend/geolocate

Example response:

{"source": "wifis", "measurements": 14, "location": {"lat": 59.12345, "lng": 10.12345}, "accuracy": 30}

or on fail:

{'resultType': 'error', 'results': {'source': 'none', 'measurements': 0, 'location': {'lat': 0.0, 'lng': 0.0}, 'accuracy': 9999}, 'error': {'message': 'Empty request', 'code': 400, 'errors': [{'message': None, 'reason': 'parseError', 'domain': 'global'}]}}

TODO

• Notify https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/Software

• Support fetching location from both at the same time.

• Googles API is compatible, so can add that as well.

• Check with Mozilla if this can be packaged with test API key.

• Correct radiocells “accuracy”. They always give 30m…