Kismon

Kismon is GUI client for kismet (wireless scanner/sniffer/monitor) with several features:

a live map of the networks
file import: netxml (kismet), csv (old kismet version), json (kismon)
file export: kmz (Google Earth) and all import formats
signal graph for each network
it can connect to multiple kismet servers simultaneously

Dependencies

kismet
- Kismon requires the Python module of kismet, it has to be installed for Python 3
osm-gps-map (>=1.0.2)
- osm-gps-map is optional, the map will be disabled if it's missing
python3-gi, python3-cairo, python3-simplejson
GTK+ 3

Kismet Compatibility

Be aware that kismon is starting with version 1.0 not compatible with kismet servers running versions older than 2019-01-beta2.

Here is a list of the known compatibility:

kismon 1.0.3
- Kismet 2019-12-R2 - 2020-12-R3
kismon 1.0.2
- Kismet 2019-12-R2 - 2020-03-R1
kismon 1.0.1
- Kismet 2019-08-R1 - 2019-09-R1
kismon 1.0.0
- Kismet 2019-01-beta2 - 2019-04-R1
kismon 0.9
- Kismet 2011-01-R1 - 2016-07-R1
kismon 0.8
- Kismet 2011-01-R1 - 2014-02-R1

Installation

$ sudo apt-get install git python3 python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 python3-cairo python3-simplejson \
 gir1.2-osmgpsmap-1.0
$ git clone https://github.com/Kismon/kismon.git kismon
$ cd kismon
$ python3 setup.py build
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

Or just use make instead of the python commands.

# make install

Kismet Python module

The Python module of kismet isn't included in the most Linux distributions and has to be installed manually.

$ git clone https://github.com/kismetwireless/python-kismet-rest.git
$ cd python-kismet-rest
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

Create Debian/Ubuntu package

$ sudo apt-get install make debhelper dh-python python3
$ make builddeb

Usage

Launch kismon from the command line after you started kismet or click the the kismon icon in the menu of your desktop environment.

Hotkeys

Fullscreen: F11
Zoom in/out: Ctrl + "i"/"o"

Note: The GPS reciever needs to be setup before running kismon and kismet.

Author

Patrick Salecker mail@salecker.org

License

This project is licensed under BSD, for more details check COPYING.

Windy34/kismon