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
- 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
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
$ 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
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
$ sudo apt-get install make debhelper dh-python python3
$ make builddeb
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.
- Website: https://www.salecker.org/software/kismon.html
- Git repository: https://github.com/Kismon/kismon
Patrick Salecker mail@salecker.org
This project is licensed under BSD, for more details check COPYING.