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windows-phone-8.1windows-store-apps
Deenathaiyalan Shanmugam
Deenathaiyalan Shanmugam

Reputation: 60

How to find wifi signal strength in Windows RT or 8.1 Application Store Apps?

I have some issues in Windows 8.1 store apps, i want app event if wifi signal strength change, your answers will be appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 493

Answers (3)

Shubham Sahu
Shubham Sahu

Reputation: 2015

absolutely you can get signal bars but question is how to update network strength

i have answer for (i can provide exactly what should you if you provide xaml and c# code).. now all you have to do use "DispatcherTimer" which will update your signal strength time to time. use this code in your page initialization or app.xaml.cs initialization

using System.Windows.Threading;



DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer { Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1) };

timer.Tick += delegate (object sender, EventArgs e)
{ 
   // use your wifi class etc. e.g this.SignalStrengthProgressBar.Value = (FMRadio.Instance.SignalStrength); this is example for fm radio in wp8.
};

timer.Start();

here timespan.fromsecond(1) 1 is second adjust second according to your need because time update will suck your battery

like my answer ? upvote and mark as answer

Upvotes: 0

Cherry Bu - MSFT
Cherry Bu - MSFT

Reputation: 10346

Currently I cannot see any events for you to detect Wifi Signal Strength Changes. What I can think is to repeat reading the data in your app use dispatcher timer. More detail about building a Wi-Fi Scanner in the UWP you could refer to this document.

Upvotes: 0

CodeNoob
CodeNoob

Reputation: 757

You can make use of NetworkConnection class present inside the Windows.Networking.Connectivity namespace and use the ConnectionProfile class which has method called GetSignalBars which gives nullable byte from value 0 to 5.

var strength = Windows.Networking.Connectivity.NetworkInformation.GetInternetConnectionProfile().GetSignalBars();

More details about signal strength can be found here. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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