OpenGoPro: MacOS WIFI Driver broken on >= Sonoma 14.x because `airport` command is retired

Apple has officially retired the airport command-line utility on macOS Sonoma 14.4

Component Python SDK

Description SSID Scan does not work anymore on recent Mac OS X version.

To Reproduce Try connecting to a GoPro using Mac OS Sonoma 14.4

Expected behavior Python SDK should migrate to wdutil as per Apple recomandation.

Screenshots

~ % airport
WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.

About this issue

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State: open
Created 3 months ago
Comments: 18 (4 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

This commit is a WIP to fix WiFi scan on MacOS This works toward solving https://github.com/gopro/OpenGoPro/issues/506 — committed to epheo/OpenGoPro by epheo 3 months ago
Add conditional pyobjc dependencies for Darwin pyobjc-framework-corewlan will be replacing airport -s pyobjc-framework-corelocation is used to provide the permission to read scanned SSID This works ... — committed to epheo/OpenGoPro by epheo 3 months ago
Add location authorization check This works toward solving: https://github.com/gopro/OpenGoPro/issues/506 — committed to epheo/OpenGoPro by epheo 3 months ago

Most upvoted comments

@keithrbennett

My team has had that installed for years 😬

xcode-select --install
xcode-select: note: Command line tools are already installed. Use "Software Update" in System Settings or the softwareupdate command line interface to install updates

sfoley-gpqa on Apr 25, 2024

I do not own a Macintosh, and MacOS Ventura is the latest I can virtualize atm. After borrowing a system with 14.4.1 for a moment I could get a correct SSID as follow:
[...]
>>> import CoreLocation
>>> location_manager = CoreLocation.CLLocationManager.alloc().init()
>>> location_manager.startUpdatingLocation()
>>> networks, error = iface.scanForNetworksWithName_error_( None, None )
>>> print(networks)
Dependencies:

pyobjc-framework-CoreWLAN

pyobjc-framework-CoreLocation

I tested on MacOS 14.4.1 with Python 3.11 installed via brew and pyobjc 10.2. The following references seems to indicate that behavior may differ between systems and Python Versions.

CoreWLAN returning None for SSID/BSSID ronaldoussoren/pyobjc#600

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748518

Running macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 (23D60) and using the code below, I’m getting null for all SSIDs:

python3 -m venv /tmp/scantest
/tmp/scantest/bin/pip3 install pyobjc
...
/tmp/scantest/bin/python3
Python 3.10.13 (main, Sep 13 2023, 13:03:08) [Clang 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)] on darwin

>>> import CoreLocation
>>> from CoreWLAN import CWInterface, CWWiFiClient
>>> wifi_client: CWWiFiClient = CWWiFiClient.sharedWiFiClient()
>>> interface = wifi_client.interface()
>>> location_manager = CoreLocation.CLLocationManager.alloc().init()
>>> location_manager.startUpdatingLocation()
>>> networks, error = interface.scanForNetworksWithName_error_( None, None )
>>> print(networks)
{(
    <CWNetwork: 0x600003afc4a0> [ssid=(null), bssid=(null), security=WPA2 Personal, rssi=-27, channel=<CWChannel: 0x600003ad4040> [channelNumber=1(2GHz), channelWidth={20MHz}], ibss=0],
    <CWNetwork: 0x600003afc500> [ssid=(null), bssid=(null), security=WPA2 Personal, rssi=-84, channel=<CWChannel: 0x600003ad8800> [channelNumber=136(5GHz), channelWidth={80MHz}], ibss=0],
    <CWNetwork: 0x600003afc580> [ssid=(null), bssid=(null), security=WPA2 Personal, rssi=-77, channel=<CWChannel: 0x600003ad87d0> [channelNumber=11(2GHz), channelWidth={20MHz}], ibss=0],
    <CWNetwork: 0x600003afc4f0> [ssid=(null), bssid=(null), security=WPA2 Personal, rssi=-38, channel=<CWChannel: 0x600003ad8830> [channelNumber=149(5GHz), channelWidth={80MHz}], ibss=0],
    <CWNetwork: 0x600003afc670> [ssid=(null), bssid=(null), security=WPA/WPA2 Personal, rssi=-74, channel=<CWChannel: 0x600003ad8860> [channelNumber=10(2GHz), channelWidth={20MHz}], ibss=0]
)}

sfoley-gpqa on Apr 8, 2024