Spectrum-Tools

Spectrum-Tools is a set of utilities for using the Wi-Spy USB spectrum analyzer hardware from Metageek LLC. They include userspace drivers for the hardware (implemented via libusb), a graphing UI built on GTK/Cairo, network servers for remote devices, and simple utilities for developing additional tools.

Spectrum-Tools was formerly known as Wispy-Tools. Wi-Spy is (c), (tm), (foo) Metageek LLC

News

Apr 23 2009 - Release of Spectools-2010-04-R1, bug fixes and support for libusb 1.0+compat.

Jun 18 2009 - Release of Spectools-2009-06-R1, including support for the Wi-Spy 24i

Feb 03 2009 - Release of Spectools-2009-02-R1, including support for the Wi-Spy DBx dual-band spectrum analyzer and various improvements to the UI. Major rewrite in the works.

Download

The spectrum-tools development tree is available via Subversion. Subversion is an alternate source management system with several advantages over CVS. Get the client and learn more about it at subversion.tigris.org.

Download the latest development code using Subversion with svn co https://www.kismetwireless.net/code/svn/tools/spectools spectools

Download Spectrum-Tools 2010-04-R1 here

A note to package maintainers: I'd consider spectrum-tools finally ready for inclusion. Note that you will probably have to make changes to the udev rules file to reflect the "privilged usb users" group for your distribution.

Hardware

Currently, Spectools supports the following hardware:

Metageek Wi-Spy Classic	link
Metageek Wi-Spy 24x	link
Metageek Wi-Spy DBx	link
Metageek Wi-Spy 24i	link

Additional hardware will be supported as time permits and hardware becomes available; Patches and chipset documentation for other spectrum analyzers welcome.

Screenshot

Spectool-GTK 2007-10-R1 user interface