STOCK NIC
The radio already in the machine. wlanapi reads real signed dBm per access point — not the 0–100% quality number, and no monitor mode.
WLANAPI
PURE STDLIB
08 · DESKTOP · WHOLE-AREA PRESENCE
WIFI SENSE
Motion sensing with hardware you already own.
Reads per-AP signal strength off the WiFi radio already in your Windows machine, and flags motion when several nearby links are disturbed at once. Coarse by design — read what it doesn't do before the features.
PROOF OF SIGNAL
LIVE CAPTURE · NAMES MASKED
Real capture from a stock Intel NIC — 23 access points, unmodified RSSI and disturbance values. Network names and BSSIDs are masked: they are indexed by public wardriving databases and would give away the receiver's location.
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
READ THIS FIRSTIT KNOWS SOMETHING MOVED.
NOT WHO. NOT WHERE.
Not imaging. Not through-wall tracking. Not per-person identification.
It is 16 KB of pure stdlib Python, not a compiled binary — a system Python 3.10+ has to already be on PATH.
No localization. One receiver has no bearing; the dashboard's radial view is organized by RF channel, not physical direction.
Windows throttles scans below 1 Hz. It misses subtle motion and is tuned to not false-alarm, in that order.
Synthetic benchmark: ~30% detection at 0% false positives. That is an upper bound, not a promise — measure on your own floor plan.
Active scanning briefly pulls the radio off-channel and can nick your own WiFi throughput.
WHAT IT DOES
3 CLAIMS · ALL CHECKABLENO DRIVERS. NO REBOOTS.
Userland only — no kernel driver, no admin rights, no install step. Unzip, run, done. Uninstall is deleting a folder.
USERLAND
NO ADMIN
WHOLE-AREA PRESENCE
Every access point in range becomes a tripwire. Cross an RX→AP path anywhere in the space and the disturbance registers.
TOP-K FUSION
ADAPTIVE BASELINE