Spectrum-Tools

Spectools is a set of utilities for using various spectrum analyzer hardware. It supports the suite of Wi-Spy devices (original, 24x, 24x2, DBX, DBX2, 900, 24i) by Metageek LLC and the Ubertooth. Spectools includes userspace drivers for the hardware itself, a graphing UI built GTK and Cairo, network protocols for remote device capture, and simple utilities for developing additional tools.

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

News

Aug 09 2011 - Release of Spectools-2011-08-R1, support for Wi-Spy DBx2, 24x2, and Ubertooth, prettied up some graphics

Apr 23 2010 - 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

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 2011-08-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
Ubertooth	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