Airport status

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Mon Mar 14 12:41:09 EST 2005


Thanks, Alex. I've been trying this out, but it appears the download at 
http://www.macstumbler.com/airport.tar.gz is a folder containing the 
pieces of the full script. It looks like it needs to be turned into a 
Unix Executable File, but I don't know how to do that. Anyone here have 
guidance on this?

Thanks.
Richard


On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> Found this info:
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> " For those who are interested, I found a way to show airport signal 
>> strength (and other airport info). Download this airport CLI tool 
>> (http://www.macstumbler.com/airport.tar.gz) and find a place for it 
>> (I put mine in /usr/local/bin). After that, it's pretty easy. This is 
>> the script that I ended up using, it uses backslashes for a 10-bar 
>> display, then shows the percentage."
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/airport | awk 'NR == 2 {for (a=10;a>0;a-=1) if ($1 / 
>> 10 < a) printf("`"); else printf("\\"); print " " $1}'
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Can sometime tell me how to convert and use this from Rev?
>
> Sorry this is untested - no Unix available - but if I remember right 
> .....
>
> this is taking the output from the "airport" program, and piping it 
> into an awk script which takes the second line of input and uses the 
> first token (word) of it as a percentage value. So all you need is
>
> put shell("/usr/local/bin/airport") into tMyVar
> put word 1 of line 2 of tMyVar into tPercent
>
> and then do whatever you want with that value, probably something like
> if tPercent < 50 then
>   beep
>   answer info "You are out of wireless range !" with "OK"
> end if
>
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