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Yesterday, while study of books the first chapter of an introduction to RubyCocoa I discovered how to play sounds with just few lines of ruby code.

Next I remembered a very useful post about How to get the wireless signal strenght from you airport and I decided to put togheter my (very small) knowledges of RubyCocoa to create a script that make your mac to work as an hot spot detector.

The next few lines of code use the wi-fi signal strength as a delay between two ‘beep’; this way the closer you get to the hotspot the less time pass between two ‘beep’ (it a sort of Geiger counter

Here is the code:

  require 'osx/cocoa' sound = OSX::NSSound.soundNamed 'Basso' time true do `airport -I` =~ /avgSignalLevel: -([0-9]+)/ delay = $1.to_i puts "signal strenght: " + (delay/100.0).to_s sound.play sleep(delay/100.0) end  

I made it just for fun so I know that this script can be enhanced in a thousand ways (and it’s very very much from perfection :).

Feel free to use this piece of code for everything you need and if you get a brilliant idea about how to improve it please let me know !

Sandro