What's new in VisiWave Site Survey 7.0.0
Jul 26, 2023
- Optimal Radio Placement
- VisiWave Pro now has the ability to suggest where you should
- place access points when you are doing predictive surveys.
- You specify an area's barriers (walls) and tell VisiWave how
- many APs you think you need in that survey area and it then
- determines its best estimate of where you should install APs.
- You can also highlight "priority areas" in the survey area.
- For example, an area of desks or tables where many people
- often need Wi-Fi could be marked as a priority area.
- VisiWave then runs its algorithm putting priority on coverage
- in the priority areas.
- Crop Survey Area
- Instead of having VisiWave use the entire floor plan image
- area, you can limit the area where coverage is calculated.
- By using the Crop Area feature, VisiWave will concentrate
- the heatmap analysis to only the area that you select.
- This can make more detailed heatmaps since you can easily
- cutout extra space around floor plan images or focus VisiWave
- to only look at a subset of the overall survey area.
- This works when collecting survey data, in report heatmaps,
- and for predictive surveys.
- Copy Heatmap Image to Clipboard
- You can now quickly and easily copy the current heatmap image
- to the clipboard so you can paste it into an external
- application.
- Multi-Select Operations in Predict View
- Predict View now supports selecting more than one barrier or
- radio. You can then perform an operation on all of the
- selected objects at once. For example, you can move a set of
- walls, change the walls' material, or delete them. Use the
- Shift key and drag your mouse to highlight many items at
- once. Or use the Control key to add items to your current
- selection.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.7 (Nov 15, 2022)
- AP Numbers in Exported CSV and XML Files Were Off By One:
- The numbers that are used to uniquely identify access points
- when exporting survey data in CSV or XML files were off by one.
- For example, AP #1 was listed as "0" in the exported data.
- Improved Handling of Radios with Half Power Beamwidth Antennas:
- For Predictive Surveys, you can select the antenna pattern used
- by the access point. Half Power Beamwidth antennas had issues
- handling vertical rotations near 90 or -90 degrees. Also, a
- Gain must be specified for the simulation to have any effect.
- Improved Predictive Coverage with Non-Floor-to-Ceiling Barriers:
- When using barriers that don't go all the way to the ceiling
- and using access points that are mounted high, the predictive
- coverage maps weren't showing sufficient signal loss near the
- barrier on the side opposite from the access point.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.6 (Jun 22, 2022)
- Long Data Collection Times:
- A wireless adapter that suddenly took a long time to return AP scan results and then on the next scan quickly returned scan results could cause VisiWave to get out of sync. This would then make VisiWave wait about 10 seconds for all future scan results.
- Memory Leak in Report View:
- A memory leak was fixed in Report View. This leak could have caused stability issues after checking or unchecking many (hundred+) access points in the AP Filter for a Heatmap or coverage graph.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.5 (Feb 25, 2022)
- Chanalyzer Not Showing 5GHz DATA
- In some circumstances, VisiWave wasn't showing the 5GHz
- Spectrum data when you selected "View in Chanalyzer".
- Saving PDF Report Files
- The last version introduced an issue with saving PDF
- Generated reports. This was fixed with this release.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.4 (Feb 10, 2022)
- Performance Issue with Changing "Group By" in AP List
- When a large number of APs are selected in the AP List and then "Group By" is changed, it can take a long time to switch how the APs are grouped. This has been fixed.
- Out-of-Memory Error in Large Surveys When Selecting Many Data Points
- For very large surveys, loading all the discovered acces spoint readings in the Wi-Fi Details view below the map in the'Survey View could cause out-of-memory errors. VisiWave now limits the number of rows that are added to this list.
- Generating PDF Reports with Non-ASCII Characters in Filenames
- When generating a PDF report, if the filename you enter contains non-ASCII characters, images in the report weren't being shown.
- This is no longer a restriction.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.3 (Jul 30, 2021)
- Dr & Windw Issue With Predictive Surveys:
- In sme rare cases, the rder that drs r windws areincluded was causing VisiWave t hang. The rdering is nw changed autmatically.
- View in Chanalyzer Issue with Large Datasets:
- VisiWave had an issue when using the View in Chanalyzerfeature when the range included t many data pints. Chanalyzer wuld lad but n data wuld be included. This situatin is nw fixed.
- Ggle Earth Reprt Default Extensin:
- If a file extensin wasn't prvided fr the reprt file, the file was given the extensin f KML. But it needed t be KMZ fr the Ggle Earth files VisiWave creates. An extensin f KML wuld cause the embedded images t display as largeX's.
- Ggle Earth AP Cverage Maps Issue:
- If yu generated an AP Cverage map fr Ggle Earth and had bth "What t Map" set t "Strngest" and "Highlight verlaps"
- set t anything ther than "Nne", then VisiWave culdn't generate the Ggle Earth reprt. Nte that there are neve highlighted verlaps when mapping the strngest APs s usually this wasn't an issue.
New in VisiWave Site Survey 6.0.2 (Feb 18, 2021)
- Set GPS Location Issue:
- If "Get Location from GPS Device" was selected from the "Set GPS Location" menu item before any data was collected, then the program would crash.
- Channels Under Noise Can't Be Selected When First Adding:
- Spectrum Data:
- In Survey View in the right pane, the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels under "Noise" can't be selected when you collect the first set of spectrum data points. The channels remained grayed out.
- You had to save the survey file and re-load it before you could access the noise channels.
- Predictive Heatmap Issue with Large Survey Areas:
- A large survey area (50m on a side or more) could have had issues producing accurate predictions when the radio was placed near the top of barriers. The simulation had a path over the
- barriers which was making the signal strengths too generous.
- Channel Maps Weren't Handling Some In-Between Channel Numbers:
- Some channels that were "wide" (40MHz, 80MHz, or 160MHz) couldn't be selected in a Channel map. Now VisiWave handles all common channel numbers regardless of channel width.
- Rotate Horizontal Wasn't Working for Dipole Antennas:
- For predictive surveys with radios set to have dipole antennas, the Rotate Horizontal setting wasn't affecting the heatmap pattern. It is now functioning correctly.
- Predictive Heatmaps Had White or Gray Regions:
- With a few combinations of Min and Max color legend settings, some regions of the colored heatmap would show up as white or gray when they should be a dark red (when using the default
- color scheme).