About bmillham

I've made some major updates to the monitor. It now can save status history to a sqlite3 database (configurable) You can't really do anything yet with that information, but I have plans for it ;-). There are also some bug fixes. Now the window position is saved on exit and properly restored. And I added lots more interesting information:     Please let me know if you try it out and it works for you. Or if you have problems.   Just pull the new version or get the latest zip from  https://github.com/bmillham/hnstatus ... View more

I've added the state codes that were kindly supplied by CORROSIVE. I also did some other minor changes and added better state code displays in the GUI. Just pull the new version or get the latest zip from https://github.com/bmillham/hnstatus   ... View more

It took me a while to figure out how the JS on the modem was getting the information. I finally used Chromiums built in network monitor and that's how I saw the 'hidden' api pages being accessed. Once I found the hidden pages it was easy as they are just returning a small JSON structure.   I added a little code to check the amount of data returned when I'm 'pinging' the modem. It's 1004 bytes each status update. ... View more

#5 should now be fixed for dark themes. It now will use the default theme color. @MarkJFine wrote: 5. Might want to check for dark mode for the Data labels (see below). The changes have been pushed to github so you can pull or download the zip. ... View more

I just pushed a few changes. If you cloned the git repository, just do a pull to get the changes, otherwise download the zip again.   Fixes:   3: The yaml warning should be gone 4: The png missing warning is fixed. 6: Added message in the About box about using ESC to close.   I will look at the dark theme problem next. ... View more

Thank you for the link to the status codes! ... View more

Thank you for the feedback. I will address your issues in the next update (probably tomorrow, possibly this evening)   The update interval should be adjustable. It's in the config.yaml.   I forgot the humanfriendly was required, I'll add that to the readme, and add a warning to install it if it's not found.   If you leave start_minimized: True you can maximize it by clicking on the status icon.   I'll look at why you are getting the yaml.load error. I don't get that on Linux Mint.   4 should be fixed in the last update, just grab the latest from github. (I think I fixed that last night)   I will look at how to improve issue #5.   6 should be fixed where you can click close to close the about window.   As to the update interval being a load on the modem, I've been running this for about a year with a 1 second update with no problems. But just change it to 10000 and it wil update every 10 seconds, or 25000 to update 4 times a minute. I've acutally tested with as low as 500 (.5 seconds) with no problems, but only ran like that for a few minutes. BTW, the data rates that you see are only from the modem to the internet, the traffic from the PC to the modem is not included. It's also a very small dataset returned (if you look in the hnmodemstatus.py code you will see the 4 pages I'm accessing to retreive the data. You can manually look at the returned data with a web browser and you will see it's not much)   Anyways, I'll post here when the next update is ready. Thanks for the feedback and for trying it! ... View more

If you try it and find any issues, please let me know so I can fix them.   I do plan on adding data usage logging. My plan is to allow it to be set by the user to keep X days worth of data. I hope to have the logging working in the next few days. ... View more