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== Building Wifi Scanner ==
 
 
After you have went through the [[http://wiki.lofarolabs.com/index.php/Installing_Packages_Required_for_SLAM Installing Packages Required for SLAM]] page, you can now build the wifi tools that will allow us to get data from the surrounding Wireless Access Points. Lets go through the steps:
 
 
1.) Open a terminal and change directory to where you saved MILES then navigate to wifi_scanner. For example:
 
 
  cd ~/catkin_ws/src/MILES/wifi_scanner
 
 
2.) Now that you are in the directory you need to clean any old CMAKE builds:
 
 
  script clean.sh
 
 
3.) Lastly, we can now build the package:
 
 
  script build.sh
 
 
wifi_scanner should now build without any errors. If there are errors make sure you have done every step on the [[http://wiki.lofarolabs.com/index.php/Installing_Packages_Required_for_SLAM Installing Packages Required for SLAM]] page. IF there still are errors, you can email rtindel2@gmu.edu.
 
 
  
 
== Running the Wifi Scanner ==
 
== Running the Wifi Scanner ==

Revision as of 20:50, 17 March 2015

Running the Wifi Scanner

Now that we have built the wifi scanner we can now test to see how well it works. If you are running on a Virtual Machine or do not have a Wireless card on your computer, you will need to get a USB Wireless Receiver. Here are the steps:

1.) Open a new terminal.

2.) Navigate to the directory that you built wifi_scanner. For Example:

  cd ~/catkin_ws/src/MILES/wifi_scanner/bin

3.) Now we can run the wifi_scanner, though make sure it is run as root.

  sudo ./test_wifi_scanner