[Wi-Fi] not able to get Wifi status about extensions HOT 7 OPEN

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🔔 @koinzhang @louishuyng you might want to have a look.

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The issue here is that the package is using node-wifi, which hasn't been updated for a couple of years: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-wifi

I experienced the same issue and investigated the package. It runs the following command to get the info:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport --getinfo

If you run this in your terminal, you will get the following message:

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.

So this is not an easy fix, we might have to replace the node-wifi package with some own solution

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hmm, not sure if this helps but I'm using this script for toggling Wifi instead:

interface=$(networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep 'Wi-Fi' | grep 'en' | sed -E 's/.*(en[0-9]).*/\1/')

if [[ $(networksetup -getairportpower $interface) =~ 'On' ]]; then
	networksetup -setairportpower $interface off
else
	networksetup -setairportpower $interface on
fi

maybe networksetup via bash could be used for the rest as well? I can tell you this performs much faster than the toggle from the extension did

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Currently almost all major wifi node libraries use the above command to get wifi, I haven't found a better wifinode library for the time being, if you guys have a good recommendation, feel free to let me know!

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Still not working as of June.

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@guiltyvictim and still not possible to fix because Apple doesn't provide a way to get the status programmatically. This is not so much an issue with the extension, but with Apple

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