yFi

macOS utility app to monitor your WiFi connection.

3.0•1 review•

4 followers

macOS utility app to monitor your WiFi connection.

3.0•1 review•

4 followers

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yFi is a small utility app that lives in your status bar. It continuously monitors your WiFi TX Rate and reconnects if it's getting bad. This ensures you'll never have those awkward lags and dropouts in online meetings (as we now are working remotely...).

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Mac•Menu Bar Apps

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Michael Fröhlich

Noise App

@_rose_m_ It reminds me of WifiSpy which added the current TX rate to the status bar and gave context to the state of the connection. yFi now seems to offer a few additional config options. What TX limit would you recommend to set as a threshold? As a small feature request: I would like to get rid of the logo in the status bar and instead only have the TX rate shown. ;)

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5yr ago

Michael Rose

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@michael_frohlich Hey thanks for your feedback! I thought of recommending a default setting but it varies quite a lot. At home I have a 5Ghz network and set the limit to 100 - that seems to work really well. In some cases I had to go down to 50 for other networks. I couldn't test myself with slow networks easily but probably 50 is a good starting point. The higher you can set the limit the faster you'll be "back" as the update tick rate is around 2 seconds. Ah, good point with the logo, never thought of that - I'll add this as an issue on the GitHub repo and take a look at it :)

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5yr ago

Michael Rose

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@michael_frohlich https://github.com/rose-m/yFi-ap...

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5yr ago

Michael Rose

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@michael_frohlich I finally managed to do the update :) Version 1.1 should now be live on the App Store and you can select to only show the TX Rate! Have fun!

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5yr ago

Michael Fröhlich

Noise App

@_rose_m_ Thanks! That was quick :-D

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5yr ago

Michael Rose

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Hey everyone, this is my first small macOS app, starting from scratch and getting into Swift and all. The idea basically came as I was continuously annoyed by my connection suddenly getting bad and I only recognised it after couple of minutes in calls... I've now got it running for a month now all the time and it definitely saved me some meetings :D Especially since I can now pre-announce me dropping out for a couple of seconds and getting back in. The timeout typically fits perfectly so you still get everything from the conversation (e.g. in Zoom) and not missing anything. Have fun trying it out! :)

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