wifi

wifi

Wifi provides a command line wrapper for iwlist and /etc/network/interfaces that makes it easier to connect the WiFi networks from the command line. The wifi command is also implemented as a library that can be used from Python.

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# pip install wifi
# wifi --help

.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/rockymeza/wifi.png?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/rockymeza/wifi

The documentation for wifi lives at https://wifi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

Changelog

0.3.8 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2016-03-11

• Parse noise level if available (#91 - thanks zgoda-mobica)

0.3.7 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2016-03-11

• Fix bugs related to scheme parsing (#59, #42)

0.3.6 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2016-02-11

• Set all attributes to None in Cell.init (#88 - thanks stvad)

0.3.5 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2016-01-24

• Better password handling (#62 - thanks foosel)
• Account for Cells with no SSID (#86 - thanks tlau)

0.3.4 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2014-09-02

• Fixed installation missing some files (#48 - thanks luckydonald)

0.3.3 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2014-08-31

• Check for write access for bashcompletion via os.access (#41, #47 - thanks foosel and jegger)
• Fixed scanning when quality is reported absolutely (#45 - jeromelebel)
• Fixed channel parsing (#33, #39 - thanks gavinwahl and qizha)

0.3.2 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2014-07-26

• Only run if name == 'main' (#29 - thanks Jonwei)
• Try to connect to the nearest Access Point
• wifi scan was failing when Bit Rate was the last line of output (#42 - thanks jargij)
• Added documentation for signal and quality on Cell

0.3.1 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2014-02-10

• Scheme.activate was failing on a TypeError in Python3

0.3.0 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2014-02-09

• Scheme.activate now throws a ConnectionError if activation failed (#17 - thanks alexykot)
• Cell.all now throws an InterfaceError if scanning failed (#18 - thanks alexykot)
• Better error message when scheme isn't found (#19 - thanks gavinwahl)
• Added ability to delete schemes (#20 - thanks spektom)
• Added the --file option (#21)
• Scheme.activate returns a Connection object (#22)
• Added the autoconnect command (#23)
• Fixed parsing error missing channel (#24 - thanks LiorKirsch)
• Fixed relative signal return as zero (#25 - thanks LiorKirsch)
• Relative signals are now converted to dBm (#26 - thanks LiorKirsch)
• Various codebase cleanup (#27 - thanks ramnes)
• Added support for WPA Version 1 (#28 - thanks LiorKirsch)
• Fixed Python3 support for WPA/PBKDF2

0.2.2 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2013-12-25

• Fixed relative signal parsing bug (#12 - thanks alexykot)

0.2.1 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2013-11-22

• Fixed print_table str/int bug (#13 - thanks DanLipsitt)

0.2.0 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2013-09-27

• Added support for WEP
• Fixed bug related to very short SSIDs
• Fixed bug related to numeric passkeys

0.1.1 ^^^^^ :release-date: 2013-05-26

• Updated setup.py to actually install the bash completion script