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[bigpup]

RX - Received data

TX - Transmitted data

[rcrsn51]

The discussion about network_tray is here. IIRC, the critical number is 2 GB.

[bigpup]

So, do you think this pet would fix his version?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=807923#807923

[linuxwannabe]

Thanks very much everyone for the helpful info, I only get 1 gig per month so I guess the tray stats will be fine for me. ("she" by the way).

[bigpup]

Just make sure it starts the count over (resets to 0) at the beginning of the new month.

[linuxwannabe]

Thanks for that tip bigpup.

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, linuxwannabe.

I hear ya; I know exactly where you're coming from. OK, so WE have a 20GB/month allowance.....but it soon goes. With only 1 GB/month you must REALLY have to watch your usage like a hawk...

I use an app called BitMeter OS. You can get a graphical, minute by minute readout. You can get a daily, monthly and yearly summary....updated in real-time. You can set alarms, calculate usage, and all sorts of other bits and bobs...

I have a mate, for whom I installed Ubuntu to replace a very sick Vista install. He, too, uses a Huawei dongle (a 7-yr old K3565), so he uses this as well. He also has a 1 GB/month data limit.

This is NOT a 'Windows program'. It's written for ALL platforms, including Linux. I'm using this in Tahrpup 6.02; don't know if it'll work in Wary, but hell, it's gotta be worth a try.

When it's installed, you monitor it via a tab in your browser.....so I have it book-marked, and it's the first tab I open when I fire Chromium up. And don't worry about that; it works in ALL browsers. You can get it from here:-

http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeteros/downloads

Don't bother with the experimental version (0.8.0); go for the stable version (0.7.6). You'll want the Linux 32-bit download. It comes as a .deb file, but that's OK, because it should install with no problems. Just click on it in your Downloads folder, same as you would for any .pet.

When you've installed it, open up your browser, and enter this in the address bar:-

localhost:2605/index.html

This is because it 'listens' on port 2605. All things being equal, BitMeterOS should show up within a few seconds. When it does, BOOKMARK it.....and put it on your bookmarks bar, somewhere near the start; or somewhere you can find it, easily.

It's not a RAM hog; uses somewhere in the region of about 800k-1 MB. If you're like me, and play around with multiple distros, of whatever Linux flavour (I run Xubuntu, Mint 17, and Slitaz among others...it works with them all), then save it where you can re-use it! If you need to, download both 32- AND 64-bit versions; it really is an invaluable tool.

Rob Dawson, the founder and maintainer of CodeBox, used to have an add-on for this, which would allow you to monitor usage between multiple OS's, but it's deprecated nowadays, and no longer under development.

Hope this helps!


Regards,

Mike.

Note: See where I have it saved on the bookmarks bar... This is the 'Summary' tab.

[linuxwannabe]

Wow_Mike_that_bitmeter_sounds_and_looks_fantastic!
Seems_very_similar_to_the_managment_utility_on_the_hauwei_stick.
Thanks!

(Sorry,_busted_spacebar)

[bigpup]

Mike Walsh,
Thanks for this BitMeter OS program.

How about you posting a topic about it in the Additional Software section of the forum?

Network section, maybe


It did make a menu entry in menu->Network, but as you state that is not the way to run it.
When clicked on, It did start the default browser , but just a blank page.
Wonder if there may be a way to make that work.

I think I fixed the menu entry.

I opened the file /var/lib/bitmeter/runweb.sh in a text editor.
I changed the first line to this:

[Moat]

[Mike Walsh]

@bigpup, moat (and linuxwannabe):-

I'm glad other folks find it useful! Be nice if I could take the credit for this, but I am in no sense of the word a programmer. All I did was dig it up, out of a lengthy (and as I recall, quite involved) Google Search. Rob Dawson, the guy responsible for BitMeterOS, has a few other rather nifty utilities on his site; it's well worth a look.

bigpup, I've never bothered with trying to start it from the menu. The way I've always done it, it gets installed along with printer utilities and that kinda thing when I do a new install. I then get my browser up & running, and because of the way most of them work these days, it's there on the bookmarks bar straightaway. Soon as I fire the browser up (whichever one I'm using that day), it's the first thing I open after signing in.

That's it.

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[mikeb]

Ah ha... so an answer for the lazy

Well had to make the folder /var/lib/bitmeter and rename /var/lib/bitmeter/bitmeter.db.new to bitmeter.db
Then ran bmcapture and bmws directly since i dont have the debian daemon crap ) a quick hack of the start scripts would fix that) and it works a treat... as you say its a tiny webserver taking very little..the browser interface does but you only need that when you want to check.

A quick test in something like lucid but i get the feeling it would work on older.

Also I guess the data is in bitmeter.db so if that was shared (a symlink for example) then logging would happen regardless of system.

Mike is impressed...

Mike

[Mike Walsh]

[mikeb]

[Mike Walsh]

Hey, Mike.

What d'you reckon to the idea of making a 'Network' section article about it? I reckon there'll be a few other people out there could be interested in this; and we ALL spend time in the browser, don't we?

I mean, that's where your bandwidth goes, after all...

(Need to get the "grand old man's seal of approval", don't I?)


Mike to Mike.