Feature Request: Favorite / Bookmark Devices

[komallsingh]

Motivation

When scanning busy environments, it can be difficult to quickly identify devices that are important to the user (e.g. a home router, test BLE beacon, or frequently monitored access point).

Currently, users must manually search for these devices every time they appear in scan results.

Proposed Solution

Allow users to mark a discovered device as a favorite using a star/bookmark action.

Favorited devices would:

• Be persisted locally
• Be visually highlighted in future scans
• Optionally be accessible from a dedicated Favorites screen

Example

★ Home Router
★ Office AP
★ Test Beacon

Benefits

• Improves usability during repeated surveys and testing
• Makes important devices easier to identify in large scan lists
• Useful for network administrators, security researchers, and BLE developers
• Self-contained feature that does not require changes to the scanning pipeline

Implementation Idea

Use existing unique identifiers (e.g. Wi-Fi BSSID, BLE MAC address) to persist favorites locally and restore them across app launches.

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I'd be happy to contribute an initial implementation if this feature aligns with the project's goals.

[thomasbuilds]

Thanks, good suggestion. I'd scope it to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth only. The idea would be a little star next to the wifi/bluetooth name, pinned to the top of the list, persisting across launches until you repeat the action to remove it. For the action, would you prefer double-tap or long-press on the row?

Note: on Bluetooth, a lot of BLE devices use rotating MAC addresses, so bookmarking them leaves a stale entry.

Feel free to open a PR for it ;)

[komallsingh]

Thanks for the feedback!

Scoping it to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth sounds good to me, and pinning favorites to the top of the list would make them much easier to spot during scans.

For the interaction, I'd lean toward long-press rather than double-tap. Favoriting is a relatively infrequent action, and long-press reduces the chance of accidental favorites while keeping the normal tap behavior available for device details.

Good point about BLE devices using rotating MAC addresses. For an initial implementation, it might make sense to:

• Support bookmarking Wi-Fi APs using their BSSID.
• Support Bluetooth devices where a stable identifier is available.
• Simply allow stale Bluetooth favorites to remain until removed by the user, with the limitation documented.

That keeps the feature simple and avoids adding heuristic matching logic in the first version.

I'll take a look through the codebase and see if I can put together a PR.

[komallsingh]

hey! sorry for the inconvenience, i was doing something else and it got closed, can you please reopen it.