htop for the airwaves — a live 802.11 RF dashboard in your terminal

In plain words

This terminal-based dashboard monitors live 802.11 RF activity, displaying real-time wireless network data similar to how htop shows system processes. It is designed for network administrators, security researchers, and developers who need to analyze wireless traffic and signal information from the command line. The tool runs directly in the terminal, making it accessible for remote systems and scripting workflows.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

htop for the airwaves — a live 802.11 (Wi-Fi) RF dashboard in your terminal. airtop turns the Wi-Fi traffic around you into a live terminal dashboard — a frequency spectrum of nearby access points, per-station signal traces, a frame-type activity feed, an RSSI histogram, and a rolling list of discovered networks — drawn with braille and block graphics over eBPF. No monitor mode, no raw sockets. airtop attaches eBPF programs to mac80211 / cfg80211 and reads 802.11 frames as they flow through the kernel's Wi-Fi stack, so it runs on your normal, connected interface without dropping your link. curl -fsSL https://yeet.cx | sh yeet run https://github.com/yeet-src/airtop For a shareable…from github.com

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