get Wi-Fi MAC address

[bradp...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to get the device's (not the AP) MAC address? I have searched through all the blocks (including the get setting block) and couldn't find it.

Thanks,

Brad

[Automate developer]

There's currently no block for it, but you can get it using the Shell command block:

cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/address

I can't really see much use for it either, what are you using it for?

[Brad Pitcher]

I'm trying to make a flow to automatically login to Comcats xfinitywifi networks. The start page is of the form:

https://wifilogin.comcast.net/wifi/start.php?cm=DEVICEMAC&tm=xfw01&bn=st02&ap-mac=APMAC

This page redirects to the page with the login form, with a prepopulated "hash" parameter that I think is generated using both the device and AP MAC addresses. Thanks for the shell tip, I didn't know about the shell block.

[Automate developer]

Okay, it sounds like it could be useful for other users as well.

I think i may add it as an output variable to the "Network connected" block, or maybe a "mac" function.
I don't want to add a another block just for that, i'll investigate.

On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:52:34 PM UTC+2, Brad Pitcher wrote:

I'm trying to make a flow to automatically login to Comcats xfinitywifi networks. The start page is of the form:

https://wifilogin.comcast.net/wifi/start.php?cm=DEVICEMAC&tm=xfw01&bn=st02&ap-mac=APMAC

This page redirects to the page with the login form, with a prepopulated "hash" parameter that I think is generated using both the device and AP MAC addresses. Thanks for the shell tip, I didn't know about the shell block.

[Brad Pitcher]

OK, but don't do it on account of me. I just discovered I don't actually need the MAC address. I just discovered that even just cURLing the gateway IP (10.224.0.1) builds the form correctly and it somehow magically has the client MAC address. I was overthinking it trying to reverse engineer it when all I had to do was hit the gateway IP.