UWA Logo Computer Science & Software EngineeringAPlogger - WiFi logging on the iPhone/iPod Touch Faculty Home | School Home | Chris McDonaldicon APlogger is a native iPhone/iPod Touch application that scans and logs visible WiFi Access Points (APs). It is similar, and owes much to, the popular iPhone Stumbler application, but provides a number of additional features: * summaries of the most recent scan and all past scans since invocation are displayed. * detected APs are logged in a tab-separated logfile for offline analysis. Logfile names are expanded using strftime(). * the current location may be enumerated and is logged with each AP entry (sorry, no GPS support yet!). * one-off scans, or periodic "auto-scanning" at a chosen rate, may be requested. * the detailed view of the most recent scan may be sorted by SSID or RSSI. * the WiFi interface may be turned on and off with a simple control. Read a short review on Apple iPhone School. Testers and suggestions welcome.Written by Chris McDonald, chris@csse.uwa.edu.au.NOTE: APlogger is not an application to crack WiFi WEP or WPA passwords, does not retain or inject any WiFi packets, and will not be extended to support this.Download and install APlogger: * Available via Installer in the "Network" category from ModMyiFone - http://modmyifone.com/installer.xml. OR (probably more up-to-date) * Download APlogger.zip - v1.0.5, released 10th January 2008. MD5: 5da7ed93831a19fa021d190035ce305c Expand the zip file and then copy (recursively) the whole APlogger.app directory to your iPhone's application directory - typically to /Applications or /var/root/Applications. Ensure that the binary, itself, remains executable (use chmod 755 /Applications/APlogger.app/APlogger if necessary). Download the source code:APlogger is released under GPL v3.0. * Download APlogger-1.0.5-src.tgz - v1.0.5, 17th January 2008, MD5: c580106da203521a157a793e0762c83c Screenshots:icon iconicon iconA sample logfile:Here is a typical tab-separated logfile generated while driving near my home. Lines beginning with a '#' are comments, the others have fields for enumerated location, time (seconds since Jan 1st 1970), SSID (AP name), BSSID (MAC address), channel, RSSI (signal strength), and any encryption/protection:# start 0 1199184245 Tue Jan 1 19:44:05 2008# location 1 1199184259 Tue Jan 1 19:44:19 20081 1199184259 TIAMOCAFE 00:0f:3d:05:02:ec 6 15 OPEN1 1199184259 PMDR wireless 00:0f:b5:93:53:9b 7 23 WPA1 1199184259 HRDC 00:09:5b:de:a5:1a 11 20 WEP1 1199184259 <hidden> 00:14:a4:12:4e:90 5 31 WEP1 1199184259 homewireless 00:19:db:92:54:74 6 17 WPA1 1199184259 belkin54g 00:11:50:ff:61:36 11 15 WEP1 1199184259 MPA Hampden 00:12:bf:25:be:a6 6 18 WEP1 1199184259 Anaesthesia 00:12:bf:25:b8:bc 4 14 WPA1 1199184259 sonicwall 00:06:b1:15:27:ad 9 13 OPEN1 1199184259 MONI 00:17:9a:66:b9:fd 6 7 WPA1 1199184259 Shyan 00:06:b1:35:c2:5b 1 14 WPA1 1199184259 NETGEAR 00:0f:b5:b2:27:12 11 23 WPA# location 2 1199184633 Tue Jan 1 19:50:33 20082 1199184633 default 00:11:95:64:fc:0f 6 45 WEP2 1199184633 Cherry Home 00:19:5b:98:5e:a0 6 28 WPA2 1199184633 Braxford-Net 00:1b:11:3b:f0:68 3 25 WPA2 1199184633 PDA 00:06:b1:31:06:cb 1 21 WEP2 1199184633 TP-LINK 00:19:e0:f9:88:75 6 15 WPA2 1199184633 BROOK 00:1b:2f:97:fe:aa 7 14 WEP2 1199184633 ishapang 00:1b:11:54:57:f5 13 11 WPA2 1199184633 Rodney 00:14:6c:b1:6c:b4 8 13 WPAEnvironment:Compiler: gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5449) (LLVM build 2.0-svn-iphone-dev-0.3-svn).Tested on an iPod Touch (v1.1.1) and an iPhone (v1.1.2).Changelog: * v1.0.5, 10th Jan - the auto-scanning setting is now retained between invocations. * v1.0.4, 8th Jan - microseconds dropped from times in logfile. * v1.0.3, 6th Jan - first public release. Credits:Thanks to the following people who have (perhaps unknowingly) assisted with the development of APlogger: * Members of the Stumbler project provided code to scan for WiFi networks. * Chris Hoffman's Services application provided code to turn the WiFi interface on and off. * Numerous contributors to the iPhoneDevDocs.com Code Samples forum. Known bugs:APlogger is my first Objective-C and iPhone program, so please bear with me! 1. If APlogger performs a periodic auto-scan while a lengthy list of APs (more than 25) is being scrolled, the application has crashed. Resolved. Page last modified: 10th January 2008. CRICOS Provider Code: 00126G Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional