This script scans for wifi networks and sends their information to a remote server via HTTP POST requests. The script is written in Python 3 and uses the following libraries: datetime, queue, threading, time, configparser, requests, socket, and wifi.
You need an instance of vehicletracking-core to use this script.
- Make sure Python 3 is installed on your system.
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/MrKrisKrisu/rpi-vehicletracking.git - Install the required libraries:
pip install -r requirements.txt - Set up the configuration file by copying the config.example.ini file to config.ini and filling in the necessary values.
- Run the script:
python script.py
When the script is running, it will continuously scan for wifi networks using the specified wifi interface and push any new networks it finds to a remote server. The script will also log its activities to the console if logging is enabled in the configuration file.
The script consists of three threads:
Main thread: starts the other threads and logs its activities.
Scan thread: scans for wifi networks and adds new networks to a queue.
Save thread: sends network information to the remote server via HTTP POST requests. If the script loses internet connection, it will wait for 5 seconds and then attempt to send the data again. If the connection is still not available, the script will keep attempting to send the data every 5 seconds until it succeeds.
The script's configuration is stored in a config.ini file, which contains the following sections and options:
SCRIPTverbose: if set to "true", the script will log its activities to the console.
SERVERhostname: the hostname of the remote server to which the script will send network information.token: the authentication token to be used in the HTTP POST requests.
SCANwifi_interface: the name of the wifi interface to be used for scanning.scan_interval: the interval in seconds between each scan.