Wireless Reporting Feature

[beadon]

Just setting up conky and I see the variables for the names are shown here : https://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

wireless_ap	(net)	Wireless access point MAC address (Linux only)
wireless_bitrate	(net)	Wireless bitrate (ie 11 Mb/s) (Linux only)
wireless_essid	(net)	Wireless access point ESSID (Linux only)
wireless_link_bar	(height),(width) (net)	Wireless link quality bar (Linux only)
wireless_link_qual	(net)	Wireless link quality (Linux only)
wireless_link_qual_max	(net)	Wireless link quality maximum value (Linux only)
wireless_link_qual_perc	(net)	Wireless link quality in percents (Linux only)
wireless_mode	(net)	Wireless mode (Managed/Ad-Hoc/Master) (Linux only)

I would like to propose renaming "wireless_ap" to "wireless_bssid" to align with the naming convention of network objects.

I would also like to porpose adding a "time" metric to the wireless object. Tracking the amount of time the client (laptop, typically) is associated with that specific BSSID is necessary to identify network issues when network devices roam across multiple APs , and may be re-associating either with another BSSID , or re-associating with the same BSSID. Either way, this disconnect/reconnect is difficult to track with the basic tools. I am hoping to have this time metric show via conky to expose the issue to the user.

In doing a it of searching the concept of "time elapsed since this client has been associated to this BSSID" does not appear readily available.

Is this available at the system level ? If not, should it be something we push into network or kernel-land to see that timing out of /proc ?