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Coverage — proving it before you quote it

WiFi, audio, cameras and motion, computed over the walls you drew.

4 min read · guided tour

Guided walkthrough

See this in the real app, not a recording

The guided tour opens a real architect’s sheet in the actual workspace and walks you through it — the same buttons you will be pressing, highlighted one at a time. Nothing to install, and you can stop it at any point and keep the drawing.

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Coverage is computed through the walls on the drawing: the signal from an access point is strong in the open and weaker past a wall, and a virtual client reports what it would actually receive at any point.Access pointWallThe model knows whatit is made ofVirtual client —what it really gets hereSame picture for speakers, cameras and motion — Audio, Cameras and Motion on the same pill.
The walls you draw are the walls the signal has to get through.

  1. The pill in the header

    WiFi, Audio, Cameras, Motion, Off. One at a time. Pressing the active one again turns it off, so you can flick coverage on and off while you move a device.

  2. WiFi

    Propagation from the access points you placed, attenuated by the walls and their materials. The 2.4 / 5 / 6 GHz sub-toggle appears while WiFi is on, because the same AP in the same place does not cover the same area on all three bands.

  3. The virtual client

    With WiFi on, the phone icon drops a virtual client anywhere on the plan and reports what it would actually receive there. Drag it into the awkward corner before you promise the awkward corner.

  4. Audio

    Speaker coverage at the listening plane from the models you placed, with their real dispersion — not a fixed circle per speaker.

  5. Cameras

    Field of view for each camera, at its lens and mounting height, clipped by the walls in the way. What is not shaded is not covered.

  6. Motion

    The same treatment for motion sensors, which is where a plan that looked fine usually turns out to have a gap.

  7. Scale matters here

    Every one of these is computed in feet. On a sheet with no scale set the shapes still draw, but the distances are meaningless — set the scale first.

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