Holy shit, after spending multiple hours installing android tools/sdks/android studio/.., rewriting multiple configs to satisfy new requirements, finding a plugin fork that actually got updated, I finally got my wardriving app to report back SSIDs 😊

Wardriving? 😏 Goddamit dude, now I want to deploy a pentestPi of my own 😋

@Condor I really got inspired by some pentest channels again, especially when they mentioned the idea of having your gear in a backpack and being on the go, which isn't as obvious as back in the day when you would wire it up to your actual car antenna lol

I wanted initially to put it all in my backpack and use the usb passthrough to connect to the internals via laptop, then changed to an idea of having stuff in my backpack and connecting via phone to its invisible hotspot to access live stats and then came across apps that wardrive on your phone, but I didn't like any of them nor really trusted them with scanning my entire fucking wifi mac path, so decided to do it myself haha

@JoshBent looks like a similar idea to mine. Here I'm going for a Raspberry Pi in my backpack, probably with txpower cranked up a bit but no external antenna (if integrated card supports monitor and can do monitor and AP simultaneously, otherwise I'll have to hook up my Alfa) to conserve power. I'd be running it off a lithium cell and don't want some hungry card to suck up all that juice. Also voltage monitoring would be important 🤔 perhaps I could use a GPIO connected to the battery positive for that, and have it shut down whenever 2.8V is reached or something like that. Anyway, a tiny portable backpack solution is what I'm going for 😁

@Condor awesome, so you're actually going the bacpack route, keep me updated through rants once you do 😊

@Condor oh yeah and I would be really interested if the onboard wifi module supports that (raspi zero w?)

I found tons of tutorials for hotspotting on it, but didn't search for both states at once, because I quickly switched ideas

@JoshBent not sure, I've only got Raspberry Pi 3B's here. Back when I bought these the Pi0W didn't yet exist and the Pi0's very limited availability and supply really threw me off. And the shipping costs from The Pi Hut really didn't justify buying one either - shipping was more than the actual product 😅
Once I know more about the WiFi card in the Pi3B and deployed my wardriver, I'll let you know!