airodump-ng rate setup

[farishajdarpasic]

Hello. So, my project is related to localization of a robot. I need to know at each timestamp, which APs are visible for robot's WiFi reciever. But this airodump-ng command is running continously. I was wondering, is there a posibility, to somehow set the rate of scanning the available APs? So if I set a rate of 10Hz, then every 0.1 seconds, I would have list of visible APs for specific robot position, and I could store those observations to a file, and proceed with my method for localization.

Unfortunately airodump-ng is running continously, so that is making me problem (and as far as I experimented, I would prefer to use airodump-ng instead of iwlist). So, is there any way to achieve this? This would be useful thing for my project. Also, if there is no direct way, could you please suggest me how to simulate this - to lets say call this command every 0.1 second (but since it is running contiously it is making me problem). Or could you please tell me any other command that you know, that maybe can be used for my project.

Thank you

[Mister-X-]

There is no such thing as scanning rate, for any wireless tool.

You can set the hopping to 0.1 second, using the -f parameter. It will change channel every 0.1 second.

[farishajdarpasic]

I just need some command that runs once. If I call it, it runs one time and thats it, without continuin. Like iwlist. But your command is better than iwlist, I wish your is running only one scan...

[Mister-X-]

there is timeout you can use, but you'll need to adjust the write interval (default is every 4 seconds)

[farishajdarpasic]

In airodump-ng docs I dont see that option, what timeout you mean excatly?

[Mister-X-]

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html

[farishajdarpasic]

Thank you for your time. After I try in Lab, I will see and potentially ask something

[shashankyld]

I would like to run the airodump-ng command in loop and save the output in different files continously. But it doesnt seem to work even when i use timeout. Can you try to do the same in your machine and share your results?
In my case, I can see the airodump-ng command continue to run even when there is timeout or when i use threads with timeoutflag.

[shashankyld]

Also I am assuming now that - airodump-ng is not particulary designed to read wifi fingerprint info for a particular interface. I am planning to try out bash https://github.com/Mister-X-/wig-ng.