Fussy comments about WiFi Heatmap

[richb-hanover]

• I really wanted a "preflight" button in the settings pane so that I could test all the settings before moving to the map (I wasn't sure what would happen if the settings were wrong and I clicked on the map.)

• I didn't originally see the heat map - I didn't realize that I would need to scroll

• I wish the progress windows would stay on screen, progressing through:

  • Measurement started
  • 30... 20... 10... seconds remaining
  • Then show "measurement complete"

• The "Measurement complete" could also include a link that goes to the heat maps.

• macOS 15.3 also seems to give <redacted>for the SSID as well as the BSSID and the MAC address (oh, c'mon Apple...) I recommend you change the README not to recommend updating macOS, but instead acknowledge that WiFi Heatmap works fine, but doesn't display the actual SSID. (If that's a correct statement.)

• I can never remember what the colors mean: is red bad? is green good? I'm not sure of a better way to show it (even though I know exactly what the measurement means, negative dBm's are pretty unintuitive...) Maybe you can make the labels on the gradient larger "High signal" on one end; "Low Signal" on the other

• I don't think the documentation tells which SSID is used. Is it the strongest? Is it the one the Mac is currently connected to? Is it a sum of all the RF energy arriving at the laptop (probably not...) But it would be good to state which measure is used.

Thanks for this wonderful toy!

[richb-hanover]

Also - it's not too soon to decide on the formal name of the program: WiFi Heatmap? WiFi Heatmapper? Whatever you choose, you should always use it consistently so that newcomers aren't confused.

[hnykda]

Thanks for the suggestions, that's very useful, I appreciate the writeup!

I don't have time to work on these at the moment, but maybe someone else can pick it up (or I might get to it in the future). PRs welcome of course