mdns-wifi-location

Announce a WiFi's geolocation via mDNS.

Installation

npm install -g mdns-wifi-location

Usage

Usage:
    announce-wifi-location-via-mdns <latitude> <longitude> <altitude> [options]
Options:
    --size                -s  Size of your network, in meters.
                                Default: 20
    --precision           -p  Horizontal precision of the coordinates, in meters.
                                Default: none
    --vertical-precision  -P  Vertical precision of the coordinates, in meters.
                                Default: none
    --json-via-stdin      -j  Read newline-delimited JSON from stdin. Each line may
                                may have the these fields:
                                - latitude
                                - lonitude
                                - altitude
                                - size
                                - hPrecision
                                - vPrecision
                                If a line does not have a field, its previous value
                                is used.
Examples:
    announce-wifi-location-via-mdns 1.23 2.34 --altitude 800 -s 30

Related

• LOC record – Wikipedia
• RFC 1876: A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System (defines LOC DNS entries)
• The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records – The Cloudflare Blog (a story about Cloudflare adding LOC support)

Contributing

If you have a question or need support using mdns-wifi-location, please double-check your code and setup first. If you think you have found a bug or want to propose a feature, use the issues page.