Running on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with no ESP32 devices - what should be the outcome?

[KusAdama]

As I have only one device and so there could be for me only the option: Any WiFi laptop > RSSI-only: coarse presence and motion detection.

And upon reading the Docker info: wifi > Host Wi-Fi RSSI (not available inside containers), concluded I need to build from the source. Because the section data sources does have this option for: Linux > WiFi (RSSI Only).

In order to build this I had to also:

rustup override set nightly
cargo build --release

because othervise: error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature stdarch_x86_avx512

(Having: rustc --version > rustc 1.88.0)

And install: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libsoup-3.0-dev, libgtk-3-dev, libglib2.0-dev, pkg-config, libudev-dev or the build failed without these.

Now running not with Docker but: sudo ./target/release/sensing-server --source linux --http-port 3000 --ws-port 3001 --tick-ms 500

in cli having:

INFO sensing_server: WiFi-DensePose Sensing Server (Rust + Axum + RuVector)
INFO sensing_server:   HTTP:      http://localhost:3000
INFO sensing_server:   WebSocket: ws://localhost:3001/ws/sensing
INFO sensing_server:   UDP:       0.0.0.0:5005 (ESP32 CSI)
INFO sensing_server:   UI path:   ../../ui
INFO sensing_server:   Source:    linux
INFO sensing_server: Data source: linux
INFO sensing_server: Vital sign detector sample rate: 2.0 Hz

I'm getting this in the UI:

But here is still the "Data source simulated" - so what I see in picture above is simulation or real?

The WiFi Sensing is in state of Connection (despite on the main screen, there is pop-up: Connected to Rust sensing server)

Basically this is same state as I experienced with the Docker.

Is there some mistake or I have just wrong expectations? The UI and description giving so many possibilities that I have no idea running only this basic setup If the section Live statistic is the maximum I should have.

In the section Pose Fusion, if I enable camera, the web like net is somehow on the screen but it does not follow me as I move across the room. Should it do that?

In System status > Streaming: there is + 1 client sometimes (two total), not sure why?

[ruvnet]

Without ESP32 hardware, your options:

1. Simulated mode (Docker): docker run -p 3000:3000 ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest — shows demo data at http://localhost:3000

2. Verify pipeline: python v1/data/proof/verify.py — proves the signal processing math works

3. Linux WiFi RSSI — basic presence via laptop WiFi (build from source, not Docker since Docker can't access host WiFi):

cargo run -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server -- --http-port 3000 --source auto

This gives coarse presence/motion only — no pose, no vitals.

For real sensing, one ESP32-S3 is ~$9. A 3-pack SuperMini costs ~$15-20.