Removed security field, detection is not error proof for all tools.

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Christian Kuster
2016-04-06 21:06:13 +02:00
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@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ The module was inspired from Maurice Sways "[node-wifiscanner](https://github.co
had to handle much more complex network environments and also wanted to be independent of the operating
system language. The adaptions needed would have been too comprehensive for a pull request so I decided to write an own module.
**The module is currently in BETA testing, changes in functionality and interface are possible. Please report bugs on the projects GitHub page, Thanks!**
## Operating Systems
It was tested with the following operating systems:
@ -29,6 +31,16 @@ It was tested with the following operating systems:
console.log(networks);
});
The tool returns an array with objects, each object representing a network with the following properties:
* channel: WiFi channel
* ssid: SSID of the network (if available)
* mac: MAC Address of the network access point
* rssi: signal strength
In contrary to other wifi scanners no information about security is returned. This is due to the very different implementation
of the command line tools which do not allow a flawless detection.
## Technical background
The module uses command line tools for gathering the network information: