error getting wi fi information

[ruiemcardoso]

i made a shell script which consists in a loop that returns wi fi readings, and it works well for about a minute, but after that i get the following message: "command failed: Device or resource busy (-16)".

i think this may be related to the fact that as we are using the computer's wi fi sensor, when it gets another task, it may not be able to continue providing us the information

The .sh file has this code:

num=1

 > medidaswifi.txt

while(num=1); do

    echo "New measurement" >> medidaswifi.txt

    date +%s >> medidaswifi.txt
    iw dev wlp3s0 scan | egrep "signal|wlp3s0" | sed -e "s/\tsignal: //" -e "s/\wlp3s0 //" >> medidaswifi.txt

    echo "\n\n" >> medidaswifi.txt

done

[ruiemcardoso]

I forgot to mention that I'm running ubuntu natively

[oscar-lima]

1. please put an example of medidaswifi.txt
2. the output of the command

   iw dev wlp3s0 scan

[oscar-lima]

in python try:

import os
wifi_readings = os.popen("iwlist wlp4s0 scanning | egrep 'Address|Signal'").read()

then process wifi readings to get only the info that you need

for example to remove spaces between lines:

import re
re.sub(' +',' ','The     quick brown    fox')

[oscar-lima]

also check : https://github.com/RMiyagusuku/ros-wifi-localization/blob/master/rss/src/rss/RSSImeasurement.py

lines 59-60

[ruiemcardoso]

We used the python code import os wifi_readings = os.popen("iwlist wlp4s0 scanning | egrep 'Address|Signal'").read()

and there's a problem: the wifi_readings string only has information about one of the access points.

[oscar-lima]

try disconnecting from the wifi, you will then get many

[ruiemcardoso]

indeed, we get more access points but in order to remotely control the robot we need to be connected to wi fi

[oscar-lima]

yes, you need a usb to wifi pendrive

[ruiemcardoso]

My group has been getting wi fi info this way, but we just noticed that the method used gives us the same information several times, needing too much time to change (10/20 sec)

[oscar-lima]

try out the method used in https://github.com/RMiyagusuku/ros-wifi-localization/blob/master/rss/src/rss/RSSImeasurement.py

but just the code that gets the readings ; )