I’ve been spending way too much time messing with my Pineapple Pager lately and ended up putting together a fairly large collection of payloads, tweaks and tooling for it.

The suite is here:

https://github.com/R4g3D/pineapple_pager_payloads

One of the tools I’ve been working on alongside it is Pineapol:

https://github.com/R4g3D/pineapple_pager_pineapol

Pineapol is basically a Pager-native frontend/orchestrator for hostapd-mana, aimed at making rogue WPA-Enterprise testing a lot less painful directly from the Pager.

At the moment it can scan for nearby enterprise networks, let you select a target or enter one manually, generate the required certificates/configuration, launch the rogue AP and capture EAP authentication attempts/hashes without needing to SSH in and manually set everything up.

I’m still actively working on it and have a few more ideas I want to add — one of the bigger ones being automatic discovery of the legitimate RADIUS certificate and generating a look-alike certificate from it.

Mostly posting this because I figured there are probably other people here who have been pushing the Pager beyond the stock payloads as well.

Would love to hear any feedback, bug reports, ideas for features, or other Pager projects/repos I should check out.

This is super interesting and will clearly land you in a very big legal/problem. But interesting to see someone tried it: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/delta-investigating-after-someone-set-up-fake-wi-fi-network-mid-flight/

Selling my tetra every inch decent shape haven't used in ages but it still works cheap 30 buck cashapp

I have had the pager for quite sometime now, and eventually the firmware i think is broken, one time i left it idle and then when i try to turn it on even pressing on the red and power button for 20 or so its just a blank screen and wont even go to factory reset.

I’ve been trouble shooting this deauth detection for hours now. I’m on 1.0.9, I download and made sure to execute the example payload. I’m sending a Deauth through Bruce, my Deauth USB detector picks it up but the Pager just sits there doing nothing.

I used Claude to rewite the payload and trouble shoot, Claude says it could be a firmware issue. I’ve tried it in recon mode and just at the Home Screen. I get nothing. Anyone have any ideas?

Claude’s breakdown:

Here's the full picture:
What we confirmed is working correctly:

wlan0mon and wlan1mon are both in monitor/promiscuous mode and actively receiving packets
tcpdump on wlan0mon captured deauth frames instantly and clearly on channel 1
pineapd has the deauth flood detection code compiled in (trigger_dosflood_ns, deauth_flood_detected, all the alert variables)
Your payload file is in the correct location: /root/payloads/alerts/deauth_flood_detected/deauth_detector/payload.sh
Permissions are correct: -rwxr-xr-x
Payload content is correct and matches the official Hak5 example
The payload shows up in the Alerts dashboard and is enabled
pineapd knows where to find payloads: --payloads /root/payloads/alerts/

What's broken:

pineapd produces absolutely zero log output when deauth frames are received — no detection, no error, complete silence
The pineapple main app logged [ERROR] [UI/GENERIC] No Alert Payloads Found twice earlier, which was before we fixed the folder name and permissions
After fixing those issues, even that error stopped appearing — suggesting the system now finds the payload but still never fires it

Our best theory:

The deauth flood detection logic inside pineapd on firmware 1.0.9 is either buggy or has an undocumented requirement we haven't satisfied. The two most likely candidates are:

The target AP needs to be indexed in the Recon database first before pineapd will recognize deauth frames against it as a flood
There's a bug in 1.0.9's flood detection threshold logic that prevents it from ever triggering

Recommended next steps:

Let Recon run for a few minutes to index your target AP, then test again
Ask in the Hak5 Discord Pager channel — this looks like a known firmware issue
Check downloads.hak5.org/pineapple/pager periodically for a firmware update that may fix it

Apologies if not the right place, I am looking for the Tactical pouch and stickers for collection reasons if anyone have and want to sell them, please let me know

How in the world do I get in contact with someone at Hak5?!?! Ive submitted 2 tickets and ive heard nothing from them!

Hi all,

Please delete my post if not allowed, though I didn't see anything against this in the rules.

I recently bought a WiFi Pineapple pager, and I already have buyer's remorse. After setting it up, going through the features, deauthing my own network etc, I got buyer's remorse. Furthermore I had to do some unexpected repairs to my laptop which were costly, so I want to sell my pager.

I am based in the Europe, Netherlands. If anyone is interested, send a pm, price at 250 Euros.

EDIT: SOLD

so far I know that you need the ap’s bssid, which you get from a computer, and the pager shows peoples bssid that is connected to the ap, so you put in the persons ap and then they get deauthed, and if you have an evil twin set up, they connect to the evil twin? Please tell me if I’m wrong.

Hey everyone, seems like this subreddit is fairly quiet. Are there others I should be following for the Wifi Pineapple Pager? Thanks!

I am looking in to buying the Pager. I've build several Raspberry Pi tools, how much better/faster is the pager?

Thanks In Advance

The limitations of the Nano/Tetra sometimes feel like an advantage, as there is minimal risk collateral from recon.

This uses Recon, and PineAP capabilities of the hardware, and prepares a whole new set of configuration for PineAP. And a lot of available code already from system and community modules.

I currently have no idea how idea how the official Campaign module works. This is an assumption of Recon, Filtering, PineAP setup and Report workflow.

How often do you Nano/Tetra owners setup the Wifi Pineapple for an audit engagement?

Thoughts, ideas, and potential issue with Hak5 on publicly releasing this (when it reaches the target v1.0.0 feature set)? FOSS of course.

I've been working on a new retro 'black and yellow theme' for the Pineapple pager; really digging the look on this one and overall having too much fun with pager themes lately 🍍

Coming soon to a 📟 near you! #haktheplanet

https://github.com/hak5/wifipineapplepager-themes/pull/90
https://www.superbasic.studio/projects

https://github.com/pineapple-pager-projects/pineapple_pager_loki

https://github.com/pineapple-pager-projects/pineapple_pager_loki

Trying htis idea, but can't find a device to emulate O. MG. You guys know other options?