HeliPort

Intel WiFi Client for itlwm

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Status

HeliPort has been upgraded to Version 2.0, providing a state-of-the-art premium experience for Intel-based Macs. The app requires macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or newer and features a completely redesigned, high-fidelity user interface.

New Features

• 📊 Advanced Telemetry: Real-time signal strength history with high-frequency sampling (30 data points) and smoothed interpolation.
• 🔧 Technical Deep-Dive: The dashboard now always displays critical technical metrics including PHY Mode, Channel/Bandwidth, BSSID, and Noise levels.
• ⚡️ Performance Optimized: Rewritten UI components using modern SwiftUI patterns for minimal CPU impact while providing rich animations.
• 🪄 macOS Native: Seamlessly integrated with the macOS menu bar, supporting all accessibility features and system-wide themes.

🏁 Development Status

• Redesigned Dashboard
• Implement always-available technical telemetry (Noise, PHY, Channel)
• Enhance Signal Strength Charting (30 data points)
• Update project version to 2.0
• Optimized Intel-only (x86_64) Architecture

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Issues

Issues for this project are for bug tracking only, please carefully fill in all the blanks in the correct Issue Template.

The following types of “Issues” will be considered as invalid and will be closed and locked immediately:

• Personal help request
• Duplicated issues
• Urging updates
• Spam
• Non-English content
• Easy “Googleable” questions

  How to build etc.

• Off-topic discussion

  Including mentioning and distributing closed-source, non-official Intel Wi-Fi Projects.

Contributing

We desperately need contributors to help us improve this project, any help will be highly appreciated.

• User interface and password management is implemented with Swift 5
• Communication with itlwm is implemented with C

Credits

• @1Revenger1 for Keychain password management improvements
• @Bat.bat for repository management and Sparkle integration
• @diepeterpan for fixing UI artifacts on macOS Sonoma and performance optimizations
• @DogAndPot for initial UI implementation
• @ErrorErrorError for UI improvement, Preference Window implementation and more
• @Goshin for API implementation, Status Menu improvements and more
• @igorkulman for code refactoring, password management and more
• @zxystd for writing itlwm and APIs
• Everyone who contributed to localization files
• Primary UI icons use Apple’s SF Symbols (Native macOS 13+ interface)
• Legacy WiFi icons are from https://icons8.com/ (No longer used by default)
• Modern WiFi icons are from https://github.com/framework7io/framework7-icons (MIT License) (No longer used by default)

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