ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:10 pm #29818 There is no shortage of tutorials and information about how to use the ESP8266 to print wireless APs that it sees or wireless clients that are connected to it but is there a way to print wireless clients that are not connected?

On linux boxes you can place certain wireless NICs into monitor mode which will let them listen to all wireless traffic and with that you can print all wireless routers, cellphones, computers, anything that is broadcasting a 2.4gHz a, b, g, n wireless signal the NIC sees without trying to make connections to it.

I've looked for a solid three weeks and I haven't been able to find anything. Is the functionality I'm looking for outside of the capabilities of an ESP8266 ?

- Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:31 am #30778 Hello.

Did you find anything out about this?
For a project I am doing this device is beyond ideal if it can sniff MAC addresses.

- Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:06 am #30782 Might this be what you are looking for?

http://bbs.espressif.com/download/file.php?id=572

It is a document from Espressif about using the "Sniffer mode" of the ESP8266 ...

Free ESP8266 book available for download here.

- Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:06 am #31026

Might this be what you are looking for?

http://bbs.espressif.com/download/file.php?id=572

It is a document from Espressif about using the "Sniffer mode" of the ESP8266 ...

Thank you, that is pretty much spot on.
Now to learn how to complie C code..