A brief explanation
This script provides way to setup a monitoring service of specific MACs for a Hostapd Wifi Access Point.
It uses the hostapd-cli list_sta to list the connected devices to the AP.
Setup
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Install python3
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Install telegram-send for python3
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Create your own telegram bot and configure telegram-send
⚠ Important, since the script runs as root, set the configuration of telegram-send as root:$ sudo telegram-send --configure -
Setup hostapd and enable hostapd_cli by adding to the config
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 -
Place the mac-monitoring.py, mac-monitoring.json in /etc/hostapd/
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Place the daemon file mac-monitoring.service at /etc/systemd/system/ and start the daemon
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload $ sudo systemctl enable --now mac-monitoring $ sudo systemctl restart mac-monitoring -
Configure the MACs you want to monitor
Configure the MACs to monitor
- Set your MAC monitoring filter with the file ac-monitoring.json. The format is:
["mac0", …, "macN"]
- Restart the daemon
$ sudo systemctl restart mac-monitoring
mac-monitoring.json
format
["mac0", …, "macN"]
example
["48:01:C5:76:14:53", "87:0F:32:45:01:64"]
1 Dec 26, 2021
3 Dec 27, 2021
1 Jan 5, 2022
7 Jan 31, 2022
66 Nov 18, 2022
3 Mar 24, 2022
66 Dec 07, 2022
17 Dec 23, 2022
820 Jan 02, 2023
9 Sep 13, 2022
9 Nov 06, 2022
4 Jul 26, 2022
32 Jun 21, 2022
158 Dec 19, 2022
1 Nov 20, 2021
2 Dec 04, 2021
5 Dec 03, 2022
218 Dec 26, 2022
1 Jan 22, 2022
1 Aug 03, 2022
116 Dec 24, 2022
13 Dec 14, 2022
4 Jan 24, 2022
1 Dec 11, 2021
1 Nov 29, 2021
3 Oct 21, 2022