Cube colors, labels, and detail
Each survey cube carries a lot of information. Its fill colour encodes a metric you choose; on a RUCKUS survey its edge outline identifies the serving access point; and it can spell out values as text when you’re close.
Which colour modes are there?
Section titled “Which colour modes are there?”ARRF has 21 colour modes in two families:
- Measured by this phone — 16 experience modes (latency, jitter, loss, call quality, speed and more). They work on any Wi-Fi and need no AP access. Their scales and how each is measured are on What the phone measures.
- Access point — the 5 RF modes below. They need AP-side data, which comes from the RUCKUS vendor pack. On Any Wi-Fi, the optional RF Shortcut can add the phone’s own signal to stop-and-sample cubes instead.
Change the active mode from the colour chip in the survey HUD, or in Settings → Display → Cube colors. Existing cubes recolour instantly. The chip only lists modes the current survey can actually paint.
Presets and “All metrics”
Section titled “Presets and “All metrics””Every colour menu (the HUD chip, the Results walk map, both floor-plan viewers) leads with three job-shaped presets, then an All metrics submenu with every mode the survey can paint, grouped as Access point and Measured by this phone:
| Preset | Modes, most telling first |
|---|---|
| Voice | Call quality (MOS), Call quality under load, Internet call quality (MOS), Voice-class latency, Jitter |
| Data | Download ↓, Upload ↑, Latency under load, Internet latency |
| RF | Signal (dBm), SNR (dB), Downlink rate ↓, Band |
The presets are ordered by your audience answer: Home lists Voice, Data, RF; Professional lists RF, Voice, Data.
What’s the default?
Section titled “What’s the default?”The default colour follows the Home or Professional? answer. Home — also the default before you answer — starts on Call quality (MOS); Professional starts on Signal (dBm). If a survey can’t paint the default (for example Signal on an Any Wi-Fi walk), the colour falls back to the first mode it can.
RF modes and their thresholds
Section titled “RF modes and their thresholds”| Mode | Cube fill shows | Colour scale |
|---|---|---|
| Signal (dBm) | Serving-AP-measured RSSI | Red→green ramp: Poor / Fair / Good / Excellent at −85 / −75 / −67 / −60 dBm |
| SNR (dB) | AP-measured uplink signal-to-noise | Red→green ramp at 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 dB |
| Uplink rate ↑ | Achieved PHY rate, phone→AP | Red→green ramp at 50 / 200 / 450 / 900 Mbps |
| Downlink rate ↓ | Achieved PHY rate, AP→phone | Same rate ramp |
| Band | Radio band | 2.4 GHz amber · 5 GHz teal · 6 GHz violet |
All five RF modes are fed by the standard survey poll — none needs deep RF stats. Band mode shows exactly where the phone holds 6 GHz and where it falls back.
The legend
Section titled “The legend”The HUD shows a legend for the active mode. Ramp modes draw a red→green bar with
the four grade names beneath and clamped end labels (for example ≤ −85 …
≥ −60 dBm). Band mode draws coloured swatches. In Signal mode the AR view
shows a per-AP outline-colour key instead — the AR-unique way to tell which cube
belongs to which AP — with the roam count at the end.
Cube labels
Section titled “Cube labels”Cubes label themselves by distance so a dense trail stays readable:
- Near (within ~2 m) — the full set of fields you chose.
- Mid (~2–5 m) — just the active colour metric’s value.
- Far (beyond ~5 m) — colour only, no text.
A small white band tag (2.4 / 5 / 6) always rides in the corner of near and mid cubes.
Choose the near-label fields in Settings → Display → Cube label fields — pick up to four of: AP name, Signal (dBm), SNR (dB), Uplink rate ↑, Downlink rate ↓. The default set is AP name, Signal, Uplink rate, and Downlink rate. These fields are AP-side readings, so they apply to RUCKUS surveys.
Tap a cube for full detail
Section titled “Tap a cube for full detail”Tap any placed cube to open its detail card. A cube with AP-side readings opens Signal here:
- Signal — RSSI and SNR with grades, RSSI spread, and a note that these are how the AP hears the phone (uplink).
- Link — uplink/downlink rates, band, channel and width, PHY, spatial streams, and MLO.
- Serving radio — the AP’s airtime-busy percentage and channel plan.
A cube measured only by the phone opens Experience here, grouped as Wi-Fi hop, Voice over Wi-Fi, Internet call, Internet, Throughput burst, and Network. Each group lists only what that cube measured.
Deep RF stats
Section titled “Deep RF stats”Turn on Settings → AP signal → Deep RF stats per cube to enrich each cube on the serving AP with extra radio detail — uplink SNR, PHY link rate, and MCS index/width/streams. These appear in the cube’s Uplink modulation and Radio PHY snapshot detail sections, and land in the export.
Deep stats are off by default because each cube costs one extra query to the AP. MCS is not a colour mode — it lives only in the tap-detail.
Behind-wall occlusion (LiDAR)
Section titled “Behind-wall occlusion (LiDAR)”On a LiDAR iPhone, Settings → Display → Behind walls controls how cubes hidden behind detected walls are drawn: Off (walls ignored), Hide (fully occluded), or Dimmed (a faint ghost shows through so data stays visible while depth still reads). The default is Dimmed. On non-LiDAR devices this has no effect.