# WLAN Commander > WLAN Commander is a Wi-Fi engineering toolkit: an iPhone, iPad and Android app that drives > external Linux sensors (NanoPi Zero2, Raspberry Pi 4/5, WLAN Pi Pro/Go, GL.iNet, Ubiquiti > AirWire) and ESP32-C5 Bluetooth sensors to scan, capture, survey and test Wi-Fi networks. The sensor has its own HTTPS website, a scoped REST API, MQTT telemetry and a local MCP adapter, so an AI agent can run scans, captures, network tests and RADIUS tests on it. Start with [Connect an AI agent](https://wlancommander.com/developers/agents/) and the [MCP tools](https://wlancommander.com/developers/mcp/) reference. Every guide is also available as Markdown at its URL plus `index.md`, and all guides and developer pages are in one file at https://wlancommander.com/llms-full.txt. ## Guides - [Find the steps for your task.](https://wlancommander.com/guides/): Follow a task, look up a detail, or recover a sensor that will not connect. - [Connect a sensor](https://wlancommander.com/guides/connecting-sensors/): Add a Linux sensor over SSH, set up a freshly flashed unified sensor over USB, or pair an ESP32-C5 over Bluetooth LE. - [Update an ESP32-C5 through your sensor.](https://wlancommander.com/guides/esp32-sensor-updater/): Use a phone browser while the Linux sensor backs up, programs and verifies a supported USB-connected C5 board. - [Files, exports and PCAPAI](https://wlancommander.com/guides/files-and-exports/): Keep the packet evidence and its context together, then move it into the analysis tool you choose. - [Get started](https://wlancommander.com/guides/get-started/): Start with only your phone, then set up your first sensor when you need live radio work. - [Use your Sensor console](https://wlancommander.com/guides/sensor-console/): A screenshot walkthrough of Wi-Fi, capture, spectrum, network tests, RADIUS, results and device health. - [Use the sensor's local touchscreen.](https://wlancommander.com/guides/touch-console/): Touch tools, the full web console, on-screen typing and Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad pairing. - [Work through a problem](https://wlancommander.com/guides/troubleshooting/): Start with the smallest known-working path, then add channels, radios and recording load. - [One sensor image, five hardware options](https://wlancommander.com/guides/unified-sensor-image/): Flash the unified WLAN Commander image, claim each device, update it over SSH, and connect it to the app. - [Support & beta access](https://wlancommander.com/support/): Tell us what you are trying to do and where the workflow stops. ## Developers - [Build on the sensor](https://wlancommander.com/developers/): Connect AI agents, scripts and dashboards to a WLAN Commander sensor through scoped APIs, MCP and MQTT. - [Connect an AI agent](https://wlancommander.com/developers/agents/): Point an agent at the WLAN Commander documentation, then give it scoped control of a sensor through the local MCP adapter. - [Credentials and scopes](https://wlancommander.com/developers/credentials/): Give each script or agent its own named sensor credential, limited by scope, radio, network, duration and expiry. - [MCP tools](https://wlancommander.com/developers/mcp/): Every tool the WLAN Commander sensor MCP adapter offers, the scope each needs and its parameters. - [MQTT telemetry](https://wlancommander.com/developers/mqtt/): Publish sensor health, availability and job events to your own TLS MQTT broker. - [Certificates](https://wlancommander.com/developers/pki/): Give the sensor an HTTPS certificate from your own CA, by CSR or ACME, and verify it from your clients. - [REST API](https://wlancommander.com/developers/rest/): Start scans, captures and network tests over HTTPS, follow them to completion and read the sensor's own OpenAPI schema. ## App - [The field kit on your phone.](https://wlancommander.com/app/): Native Android, iPhone and iPad apps for observing networks, controlling radios, and keeping the evidence. - [WLAN Commander for Android](https://wlancommander.com/app/android/): Join the Firebase beta, grant the permissions your workflow needs, and connect your sensor. - [WLAN Commander for iPhone & iPad](https://wlancommander.com/app/ios/): A native Apple interface for sensor control, Wi-Fi evidence, and on-device diagnostic tools. ## Hardware - [Find your hardware path.](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/): Use a unified Linux sensor, a Bluetooth companion or equipment you already own. - [Ubiquiti AirWire](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/airwire/): Install the WLAN Commander image from the iPhone app, or scan and capture on 5 and 6 GHz through AirWire's own Ubiquiti firmware, over USB. - [Compare sensor boards](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/compare/): Radio bus, storage, channel width, power and the jobs each WLAN Commander sensor board suits, from our own measurements. - [Match the hardware to the task.](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/compatibility/): Find your device, then check its connection, radio coverage and integration limits. - [GL.iNet Mudi 7](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/mudi-7/): Set up the experimental router integration for wired Wi-Fi capture and supported cellular surveys. - [NanoPi Zero2](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/nanopi-zero2/): A small, cheap board with one M.2 slot for a Wi-Fi 7 card. The most-tested build, with an illustrated parts and assembly guide. - [Raspberry Pi 4 / WLAN Pi R4](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/raspberry-pi-4/): No M.2 slot, but USB 3 ports for Wi-Fi 7 adapters. The original WLAN Pi R4 display and buttons are supported. - [Raspberry Pi 5](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/raspberry-pi-5/): The board for 320 MHz capture and relative spectrum with a Qualcomm card, with USB 3 for extra adapters and an optional touch console. - [GL.iNet Slate 7 Pro](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/slate-7-pro/): Scan and capture with the Slate 7 Pro's own GL.iNet firmware, one radio at a time. - [One image, five hardware options.](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/unified/): Pick your board, prepare its storage and connect to the app or local device website. - [WLAN Pi Go](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/wlanpi-go/): A small enclosed BE200 sensor with internal antennas, managed and powered over one USB-C cable. - [WLAN Pi Pro](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/wlanpi-pro/): Two Intel BE200 radios, PoE with battery backup, and front-panel menus. The choice for two channels at once. ## Sensors - [ESP32-C5 sensor](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/esp32-c5/): Board choices, USB flashing, BLE operation, photographed enclosures and downloadable 3MF print files. - [A case for your C5 field kit.](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/esp32-c5/enclosure/): Print a home for one, two or three XIAO ESP32-C5 boards and their sticker antennas. Regular and MagSafe versions, photographed assembly, and downloadable 3MF projects. - [Current ESP32-C5 firmware.](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/esp32-c5/experimental/): WLAN Commander C5 All-in-One built October 20, plus October 28 touchscreen images and matching source. - [Flash your ESP32-C5](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/esp32-c5/flash/): Choose the matching screenless or touchscreen firmware and install over USB. - [Build a NanoPi sensor](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/nanopi-zero2/build/): The full NanoPi Zero2 build: parts, BE200 variants, connectors, enclosure and assembly photographs. ## Downloads - [Get the right download.](https://wlancommander.com/downloads/): Choose app access, a first-install image, an OTA update or sensor firmware. ## Changelog - [Sensor changelog](https://wlancommander.com/sensors/changelog/): What changed in each published WLAN Commander sensor image, newest first. ## Field Notes - [Field Notes](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/): Measurements, build lessons, and the details that change how you use the kit. - [Antenna shootout](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/antenna-shootout/): Eight antennas compared across 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz: signal, throughput, full results and methodology. - [Bringing mainline Linux to the NanoPi](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/mainline-kernel/): The six-build engineering account: PCIe, BE200 support, firmware, boot configuration, patching and thermal limits. - [NanoPi thermal testing](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/nanopi-thermal-testing/): 40 recorded runs: BE200 temperatures, a thermal pad, fan cooling, a vented case, the BE200 power-budget governor, transmit power, capture gaps and firmware limitations. - [Sensor comparison: held and free-standing](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/sensor-comparison/): Measured Wi-Fi reception from two BE200 sensor builds, with and without a hand around them. - [From 44 GB a day to 0.12](https://wlancommander.com/field-notes/storage-writes/): How the unified sensor image stopped wearing out its own storage: what was writing, what we changed, the gates that keep it fixed, and what our Orb integration cost. ## Features - [Start with the question.](https://wlancommander.com/features/): Find a Wi-Fi task, the hardware it needs, and where you can run it. - [Passpoint & authentication](https://wlancommander.com/features/authentication/): Check which Passpoint and OpenRoaming providers a venue advertises, and read an iPhone sysdiagnose for Wi-Fi join, roaming and Passpoint events. - [Capture & analyze](https://wlancommander.com/features/capture/): Record raw 802.11 frames from a monitor-mode sensor, add venue and context, and send the capture to PCAPAI or Wireshark. - [Device health & updates](https://wlancommander.com/features/device-management/): Check a sensor's temperatures, power and radios, update a unified sensor's image from the app, and manage Tailscale remote access. - [Your sensor has a website.](https://wlancommander.com/features/device-website/): Use the unified image's local dashboard for standalone tests, tools and device health. - [Experimental work](https://wlancommander.com/features/experimental/): What we have measured, what remains a prototype, and what is not yet claimed. - [Integrations](https://wlancommander.com/features/integrations/): Bring in the access point's view from Ruckus One or AP SSH, and ask Siri, Shortcuts or an Android assistant about your scan. - [Network testing](https://wlancommander.com/features/network-testing/): Join a network as a client from a sensor radio, survey cells through a GL.iNet modem, watch the phone's own Wi-Fi, range with Wi-Fi RTT, and run speed and path tests. - [Scan & discover](https://wlancommander.com/features/scanning/): See nearby access points, clients, channels and advertised capabilities from a monitor-mode sensor, then read a Wi-Fi health Report. - [Spectrum](https://wlancommander.com/features/spectrum/): See RF activity on 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz as a live FFT trace, peak hold and waterfall from a WiPry Clarity, a Qualcomm WCN7850/QCNCM865 card or ESP32-C5 boards on a sensor. - [Survey & map](https://wlancommander.com/features/surveys/): Walk a floor plan or an outdoor route with a sensor, see Wi-Fi as a heatmap, compare with an earlier walk, and check emergency-location readiness. ## Site - [Wi-Fi tools for the field](https://wlancommander.com/): Scan, capture and investigate with the WLAN Commander mobile app or unified sensor website. Find supported hardware, downloads and setup guides. ## WLAN Geeks - [End-user license agreement](https://wlancommander.com/eula/): WLAN Commander application terms, beta limitations, and the rights that remain with open-source components. - [Licenses and credits](https://wlancommander.com/notices/): The projects, tools and original field work behind WLAN Commander. - [Privacy](https://wlancommander.com/privacy/): What stays on your devices, what a tool sends, and what happens when you visit this website. - [Website terms](https://wlancommander.com/terms/): Using the documentation, research, downloads and links on wlancommander.com.