kevva/wifi-name

Get current wifi name

wifi-name

Get current wifi name

Install

$ npm install wifi-name

Usage

const wifiName = require('wifi-name');

wifiName().then(name => {
	console.log(name);
	//=> 'wu-tang lan'
});

API

wifiName()

Returns a Promise for a string with the current wifi name.

wifiName.sync()

Returns a string with the current wifi name.

Related

• wifi-name-cli - CLI for this module

License

MIT © Kevin Mårtensson

wifi-name's Issues

Doesn't work on non-english Ubuntu distros

Command nmcli is localized on my Ubuntu 14.04. Here is my output

$ nmcli -t -f active,ssid dev wifi
tak:'FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7360 SL'
nie:'HTC Portable Hotspot'

In this case regex /^\s*yes:(.+)\s*$/gm doesn't match. Using iwgetid -r might be an alternative solution.

Could not get SSID

After installing an running:

$ wifi-name

I get the following message:

Could not get SSID

I'm on OS X 10.10.1

This affects kevva/wifi-password#7

Windows support

See RReverser/WiFi-Password

Feature request: sync version

env: node\r: No such file or directory

Hello,

I just install globally wifi-name package, and I catch this error message :

env: node\r: No such file or directory

My node env:
OS : OS X 10.10.2
node -v : 0.12.0
npm -v : 2.7.0
which node : /usr/local/bin/node

Thanks for your work ! ;)

Profile name may not be the same as SSID!

basically the script just executes netsh wlan show profile name=[SSID] key=clear

The profile name may not hold the same value as the SSID! Sometimes the SSIDs have unspecific names and I don't know what I'm connected to. So I rename them to something useful in Manage wireless networks.

The SSID is useful too, so we shouldn't just discard it and replace with Profile. That means introducing a choice...

And God forbid if the Profile name has special characters in it, such as double-quotes ", hashes #, dashes - or UTF8 characters:

• cmd - How to escape hash symbol(#) in netsh command - Stack Overflow
• windows - How to use netsh to delete a profile with UTF8 characters? - Super User

Platform Support

Something like this is named very abstractly and gives the impression that it's platform-agnostic. Mind mentioning platform support on the landing page? 👍

Throw a specific error when wifi is not actived

1/ On Mac, disable wifi
2/ run the example of README

The error return :
(node:27211) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: Could not get SSID

expectation : return a specific error (Error: Wifi disabled. Can get SSID.)

Command failed: iwgetid -raw

So why? Because of the ubuntu versoin?