WiFi information Archives

WiFi-Direct communication between Mac/Windows and Android

December 25, 2020 Aba Tayler

Question or issue on macOS: Is it possible to let an Android (>4.0) device establish a WiFi-Direct connection with a Mac OS or Windows device?

Python program Airnef stuck while downloading images

December 25, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or issue on macOS: I am using Airnef to download pictures from my Canon DSLR camera through python.

Is there any way to access OS X wi-fi data using Python? (Signal strength, for example)

December 24, 2020 Bell Jacquise

Question or issue on macOS: I am just curious whether it would be possible to use any Python tools to poll wi-fi signal strength in OS X. Most of my searches are just yielding Python tools for Linux, but none for OS X.

Getting OSX Connected Wi-Fi Network Name

December 23, 2020 Bell Jacquise

Question or issue on macOS: I need to get the name of the currently connected Wi-Fi SSID on OSX.

how the new Mac OS AirDrop works

December 17, 2020 Simon Abital

Question or issue on macOS: I am wondering what technologies are used by the new Mac OS AirDrop and if there is a way to use it on windows.

Reverse engineering iWork ’13 formats

December 7, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or issue on macOS: Prior versions of Apple’s iWork suite used a very simple document format:

Why wait SIFS time before sending ACK?

December 6, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or issue on macOS: Question about the MAC-protocol of 802.11 Wifi.

Captive Wifi Popup: Click a link to open Safari

December 3, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or issue on macOS: We are having an issue on our network with iOS devices (ipads, iphones etc): After connecting to the SSID, the iphone / ipad immediately opens the Captive Network Assistant (CNA) – it is like a scaled-down browser without navigation buttons etc – that displays our welcome page (ready for the […]

Python way of printing: with ‘format’ or percent form?

November 25, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or problem about Python programming: In Python there seem to be two different ways of generating formatted output: user = “Alex” number = 38746 print(“%s asked %d questions on stackoverflow.com” % (user, number)) print(“{0} asked {1} questions on stackoverflow.com”.format(user, number)) Is there one way to be preferred over the other? Are they equivalent, what […]

get wifi’s scanned SSID list in iOS using Swift

November 22, 2020 Simon Abital

Question or problem with Swift language programming: I’d like to know if it is possible with swift to get a list scanned WIFI SSID from the iPhone ,( using APIs like MobileWiFi.framework or something else ) and see code examples about that (without Objective-C source code )