Questions tagged [wireless]

Wireless refers to the technology allowing transfer of information between two points that are not physically connected.

Wireless technologies allow the transfer of data between two points that have no physical connection. Traditionally, those physical connection are made in copper wires hence the term "wire-less".

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How to simulate a bluetooth mouse programmatically

we have seen bluetooth/wireless mouses/keyboards which can do the same as wired counterparts. i have an idea of writing an app to simulate the same functionality using a bluetooth device such as a mobile phone because there should be a way that…
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Android Studio Wireless Debugging Goes On and Off

I can get wireless debugging to work in Android Studio. It just doesn't work consistently. It is often a hassle to get it to connect at all, but I can usually get around it using a variety of methods, some of which are: Pair using adb in a command…
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Simplest way to connect WiFi python

I would like to connect to my wifi network using python. I know the SSID and the key for the network, and it's encrypted in WPA2 security. I have seen some libraries like wireless and pywifi but the first didn't work and the second was too…
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Virtual WiFi / 802.11 interface similar to VETH on Linux

I'm looking for a way to set up purely virtual (i.e. no actual signal) 802.11 network on a single device - for testing purposes in a way that would give me functionality similar to this: create multiple access point interfaces (say, ap0,…
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Is there any way to put Android WIFI (droid handset) into promiscuous monitoring mode?

For a Computer Science Information Warfare class a few years ago I wrote a python script that ran on libpcap promiscuous packet capture files to parse out facebook chat traffic (earlang tuples passed in clear text), and thought an interesting…
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Xcode 5 - Wireless install app to device option?

The option is gone from the general preferences pane, and I cant find any results for Xcode 5 on how to enable it.
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Using nl80211.h to scan access points

I'm trying to use nl80211.h for scanning access points for a simple WLAN manager. I can't find any example code and only documentation I can find is kerneldoc. I have been trying to study from iw and wpa_supplicant source but it's rather…
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Connecting an iPhone to an XBee module

I'd like to use an iPhone to monitor output from a remote source using an XBee modem (or other low power wireless device). Ideally, the iPhone can regularly poll the XBee for this information and then use it to display generate output. This is…
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How to get the WiFi noise level in Android?

     I want to implement an app which measures the quality of the WiFi signal from an indoor environment. From my research I found that the best way to get an accurate measurement is not to get only the RSSI but instead to use the SNR (Signal to…
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What methods, other than listening for Probe Requests, can be used to find 802.11 wifi devices?

I'm writing a Python module for finding nearby WiFi client devices. All my current scanner does is listen for Probe Requests and logs the clients MAC address. The problem I'm having is that I'm completely reliant on the device broadcasting a probe…
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How to test low bandwidth conditions on the iPhone

I have an application that does a lot of binary data loading. I've encountered scenarios where an unstable 3G connection may intermittently cut out during the loading of some of this binary data, causing issues. Is there any way, using the simulator…
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Wireless Accessory Configuration alternative on android platform?

I was wondering if there was anybody which have any information regarding alternatives on Wireless Accessory Configuration on the Android platform. I know TI has a solution called simpleconfig, but I was wondering if there was any "generic" method…
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16-QAM modulation and demodulation - missing one line in the graph

I am trying to do modulation and demodulation for 16-QAM and then trying to compare theoretical and simulated BER. I am not getting simulation-line in the graph. I can not understand what is wrong with my code. Can anybody help me? here is the…
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Find wifi enabled devices [stations] around

Imagine this situation that there are some smartphones and computer around with their WiFi adapter (wireless adapters) on, but not necessary connected to a network. Is there a way to look the MAC addresses via a Linux machine? Any insights are…
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Using avconv to stream live audio from in-line (alsa hw:0,0) over wireless access point to a client.

I have linaro 12.06 installed on my Miniand's Hackberry(https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer%20Board). I have wireless access point up on the hackberry with the ssid of HACK I am using this command on the hackberry: avconv -f…
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