Andorid Biscuit Manager App Feature Requests.

[thebaldgeek]

Of topic post, sorry, I could not find a project holder for the Android "Biscuit Manager" app for feature requests or bug reports....

Feature request:
Please allow the option of 'track up' for the war driving map with a switch to select the current 'north up' map.
Not having the map rotate to show the direction of travel at the top is beyond frustrating for some of us.

Feature request:
Please allow the option to remember the last war drive type.
I always select Wifi Only and the default "All" requires a tedious finger dance every single time (either remember or have a war driving type option in the settings menu).

[thebaldgeek]

Fellow wardriver lent me a Biscuit Pro so I could test and quantity it some.

Getting 4 nodes running was trivial, thanks for your work to make that happen, but raises another feature request for the Android Biscuit Manager app....

When showing the 'Wardrive Report' when using the Pro in Manager mode, after the summary block, the next section is titled 'This device'.
It's confusing exactly what 'This device' actually is; the Android, the Biscuit or the whole system?

Next each of the 4 nodes are broken down by what channels they had been scanning.
Then there is a graph of Channel Distribution.
There is a selector along the top, 'All', 'This Device' and each of the 4 Nodes by MAC.
Selecting each only changes the channel graph.
The real power of this report is to be able to see the 'Signal Strength' graph change as each node is selected.
We are testing different antennas on each node and really would like to see the performance of RSSI for each of the nodes as we refine each antenna system that is feeding each node.
Don't care for the 'Security Mix' graph. Not very useful in Wardriving mode - best used in some other wifi modes, so feel free to drop it from this Wardrive Report page.

[thebaldgeek]

Another Biscuit Manager UI request.

Wigle and WDG both focus on 'unique' vs samples.
Please add the option in the wardving settings screen to have Unique as the primary focus on the main Wardriving screen

Either that, or please change the font color to match the App theme and double the font size.

[thebaldgeek]

Biscuit - Pro Hardware comment for Google and others to find since there is no Biscuit-Pro repo. No action required.

Using the Pro has shown that it can not be charged while powered, nor does it run from the USB-C power while powered up.
This is an issue while using it in Node Manager mode as the battery drains at a rate around 1% per 4 minutes.
2 hour battery life is the best I have seen so far. Well short of expected or useful life.

I've removed the battery, added a 1N4004/1N4007 diode in series with the 5v USB power and now run the Biscuit-Pro off the car USB port along with my 4 C5 nodes. A sort of 'Battery Delete' mod. (Note the Biscuit Manager shows a constant 88% battery in my case, which is fine in my use case).

[thebaldgeek]

New (serious) issue in Android Biscuit Manager.

This looks like a bad bug, But I am not sure.
The following screenshots are taken in order over about 3 minutes.

Note that both the Biscuit Pro AND one of the 4 Nodes I'm running are counting the unique SSIDs backwards.
How can the unique counter go down?
I was driving through a set of apartments.
This is about the 3rd time I've noticed the SSID counts going backwards, the first two I thought I was seeing things.