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ZeroTrace AirLeak Pro

Your First Capture

A guided first survey, from power-on to a mapped result

This is the five-minute walkthrough. It assumes you've installed and paired the unit.

1. Enable location on your phone

For a mapped drive, the app tags what you capture using your phone's GPS, so enable location for the ZeroTrace app and make sure your phone has a fix, step outside if you're indoors.

Want to run the board on its own?

You can fit an optional on-board GPS module so AirLeak Pro wardrives and logs by itself, no phone needed, see GPS. Either way, capture works with or without a location fix; you just won't get location stamps until there's one.

2. Start a Wardrive

  1. Open the Modes tab and tap Wardrive (or start a drive from the Drive tab, which puts the unit into Wardrive for you).
  2. Watch the Live view begin to fill, Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth devices appear within a second or two.

You'll see both bands come in: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks side by side, each with its name, security and signal.

3. Move

Walk or drive your route. As you move:

  • New networks and devices stream in and de-duplicate into clean rows.
  • The Drive map plots your track and drops each observation where it was heard strongest.
  • The signal readouts update as you approach and leave each transmitter.

4. Read what you're seeing

A few things worth looking at on your first run:

  • Band split, how many networks are on 5 GHz vs. 2.4 GHz.
  • Security mix, open and WEP networks stand out immediately; WPA3 and OWE mark modern gear.
  • Hidden networks, cloaked SSIDs are flagged even though they don't broadcast a name.
  • Trackers, any AirTag / Tile / SmartTag nearby surfaces on the Bluetooth side with its state.
  • Clients, devices probing for remembered networks, and whether they're using MAC randomization.

5. Stop and export

Stop the drive in the app. Your run is saved to Drive History, and you can export it as WiGLE-compatible CSV to map it in WiGLE, a GIS tool, or your own analysis.

That's a capture

You've run a dual-band Wi-Fi + BLE survey, mapped it, and exported it. From here, explore the Capabilities for what each part of the app does, or the Ops Suite for the active testing tools.

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