I'm writing a small little app that I want to submit to the Ubuntu App Review board, and one thing I'd like to do is for it to show the names of the detected Wireless SSIDs in a combo box. It's a PyGI app.
Has anyone got any pointers on how I can get those SSIDs from the system, preferably through a Python API? From dbus? From NetworkManager?
You can do this easily from NetworkManager's pygi bindings:
from gi.repository import NetworkManager, NMClient
nmc = NMClient.Client.new()
devs = nmc.get_devices()
for dev in devs:
if dev.get_device_type() == NetworkManager.DeviceType.WIFI:
for ap in dev.get_access_points():
print ap.get_ssid()
Or from DBus directly, see
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python/show-bssids.py
If you're inclined to just quickly script this in shell; an easy way to ask NetworkManager for this is to use:
nmcli dev wifi list
Or use iwlist scan, or better: iw dev wlan0 scan (or ... scan dump), after installing the iw package.
