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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Jean-Marie Lemetayer <jeanmarie.lemetayer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to get RSSI periodically
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:00:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406217620.5015.2.camel@dcbw.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdc0hyDepy7zn+1TQsjcZpkSkQrwFhbkPBJoH0vYKqbqkktAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 17:25 +0200, Jean-Marie Lemetayer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a way to get the RSSI of the SELECTED network with
> the wpa_supplicant (2.1). To update periodically the status connection
> icon of my app.
> 
> I known that I can get it with the command: 'bss <bssid>' but it seems
> that this information is updated only when perform a scan.
> 
> Have I miss something simpler than doing a background scan on the freq
> of the SELECTED network ?

Try the SIGNAL_POLL control interface command (called "signal_poll" for
wpa_cli).

Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-24 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24 15:25 How to get RSSI periodically Jean-Marie Lemetayer
2014-07-24 16:00 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2014-07-24 16:17   ` Jean-Marie Lemetayer

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