Starchorus
The air is full of radio.
We draw it.
Every room you walk into is crowded with networks you cannot see. Starchorus lays them out as a sky that turns slowly about you, and every mark in it answers to a measurement.
Pager
Starchorus turns a Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager into an observatory. Access points are stars, their clients orbit as satellites, and the stronger the signal, the closer to the centre.
It listens and never transmits. No deauthentication, no injection, no association, no active scan: what can be learnt by listening is learnt by listening.
See it in your browser The source, on GitHubA collector on the Pager reads what is on the air anyway. A single page draws it, with nothing fetched from elsewhere and nothing sent anywhere.
Three looks, two and three dimensions; baseline comparison, inventory, air quality, signal over time, recording and replay, and a homing meter. Free software under the GPL, version 3 or later.
Mac In preparation
The Wi-Fi around your Mac, drawn in the same manner: every network within reach, its band, channel and strength, who shares the air with whom, and how all of it changes over the hour. A native macOS application, for the desk rather than the field.
How the work is done
- Passive by design.Nothing is sent to find out what can be heard.
- Exact rather than impressive.A figure on the screen can always be traced to its source.
- Quiet.No telemetry, no accounts, no calls home. This page included.
- Judged on the work.Contributions stand or fall on their merit.
On screen
Starchorus is at home in front of a camera. Its demonstration mode shows a convincing sky made of simulated data and placeholder names, and so discloses nothing about anyone: ready for on-set playback and screen graphics in film and television, as it stands.
Commercial licensing and production enquiries are welcome, through the 'Question or contact' form on GitHub.