Re: How to get the ESSID of the active wifi network?

[Jonathan Haug <jonathanhaug wolke7 net>]

> Use:
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager 
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get 
> string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:ActiveAccessPoint
> 

But before that I need another command to get the correct Devices
number, i.e. it's /Devices/0 in my case.


> and:
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager 
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/7
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager 
> string:ssid
> 
> you'll get
> method return sender=:1.264 -> dest=:1.291 reply_serial=2
>    variant       array of bytes "THE_SSID"
> 

And after that I have to convert the array of bytes into a simple
string.

Man, I didn't excpect it such complicated. :)

Maybe I should stick with nm-tool and a bit of grep.
(iwlist or iwgetid isn't working for me, that's why I thought d-bus
could be my hero)
Thanks anyway for all your help, this is a great community!

Jonathan