How to Get Wifi Signal Strength via CLI using nmcli on Fedora or Ubuntu

https://blog.benyamin.xyz/2024/08/11/how-to-get-wifi-signal-strength-via-cli-using-nmcli-on-fedora-or-ubuntu/

Hello, I just want to share here. Hopefully it's useful. Thanks

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tills13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Out of curiosity is there an analogous utility for if you are using networkd instead of NetworkManager?

Aside from parsing proc wireless...

BaumGeist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
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wallybeavis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

TiL. I'm going to have to play around with this, thank you!

h0bbl3s@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks that's good to learn!

muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y

I think I used to do that with wicd.

defragmenteur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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xavier666@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It should be hobby, not hoby

letbelight@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y

Ah alright. 😂 Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Appreciate it.

AnokLola@lemm.ee · -3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Why don't you have an applet or something instead?

leo85811nardo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Because the machine could be headless so it can't display the applet to click on

letbelight@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

It's as other said, headless. Sometimes I only need to check if the signal strength is alright, as I use that machine as servers and host several service on it.