Recipe

Find a better Wi-Fi spot

The signal radar scores your Wi-Fi several times a second. Walk a few steps and stop, and it tells you if the signal gets better.

Radar in the app: Kilobat ProCLI: freeChecked: 29 October 2026

In the app

Open the Wi-Fi menu and click Find a better spot. You can also open the Radar tab.
Walk a few steps with the Mac, then stop for a moment.
Read the score. The radar tells you when an earlier spot was stronger.
Save a good spot with a name, such as Kitchen, to compare rooms later.

With the CLI

Run the radar in Terminal and walk around. To stop, type q and press Return.
```
kilobat radar --watch
```
Take one reading at each spot.
```
kilobat radar --json
```
Output score, signalNoiseRatio and the radio values.
Save the current reading with a name.
```
kilobat spots save "Kitchen"
```
List the saved spots.
```
kilobat spots
```
Find the least crowded channel for your router.
```
kilobat channels
```

Through MCP

Connect the MCP server once with claude mcp add kilobat -- kilobat mcp. For other clients, see the docs. Then an agent can call these tools. Tools that change settings tell the agent to ask you first.

Tool and arguments	What it does
`get_wifi`	The current link: RSSI, noise, SNR, channel, band, link rate and a 0–100 score.
`scan_wifi`	Nearby networks with signal, channel, band and width.
`suggest_wifi_channel`	The least crowded channel in the current band.

Good to know

The radar measures signal strength. It does not show direction or distance.
A difference of less than about 10 points is noise.
macOS shows Wi-Fi names only to apps with Location access. Allow it for Kilobat to see network names.
A stronger signal does not always give faster internet. Run a diagnosis too.

Sources

Sources checked on 29 October 2026. Man pages are the ones installed with macOS; open one with man <name> in Terminal.