nbwmon - ncurses bandwidth monitor

defer · 2014-06-25 11:15:57

* Print bandwidth graphs.
* Print current, average and maximum transfer speeds.
* Print total traffic.
* Scale to full window on startup and resize.
* Detect active network interface.
* Support for multiple units.
* Support for colors.

git:
https://github.com/causes-/nbwmon

screenshot:

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Last edited by defer (2014-10-03 19:15:19)

HalosGhost · 2014-06-25 14:06:32

Wow, that looks pretty cool! I'm gonna have to take a look at that.

All the best,

-HG

xero · 2014-06-25 14:15:24

defer wrote:

nbwmon - ncurses bandwidth monitor

very nice. thanx for sharing!

karol · 2014-06-25 15:05:15

For monitoring network traffic and bandwidth usage I like to use nload http://www.roland-riegel.de/nload/scree … index.html
I doesn't have colors, but seems to scale with windows resize.

x33a · 2014-06-25 17:27:32

Iftop does the job well too, with the added benefit of displaying active network connections.

stevenhoneyman · 2014-06-25 18:40:59

defer wrote:

nbwmon - ncurses bandwidth monitor

Nice little app

Obviously (from the commit log) it's a very recently started project, but would you like any feature requests/bugs/etc adding on github... or just leave it to you for a while until the project gets a little older?

defer · 2014-06-25 18:59:33

Glad you like it. Bug reports and feature requests are always welcome.

moetunes · 2014-06-25 21:33:17

defer wrote:

nbwmon - ncurses bandwidth monitor
features:
print bandwidth graph
print bandwidth, peak and traffic
scale to full window on start and resize
support for colors
git:
https://github.com/defer-/nbwmon
screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/W1H9ZXI.png

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The flicker was bad so I fixed it

 [ nbwmon ]$
└──╼ diff ./orig.nbwmon.c ./nbwmon.c 
83,86d82
< 	endwin();
< 	refresh();
< 	clear();
< 
101d96
< 		endwin();
121,122d115
< 	clear();
< 
154,155d146
< 
< 	refresh();
183d173
< 		endwin();
201d190
< 		endwin();
248d236
< 		endwin();
271a260
> 		doupdate();

stevenhoneyman · 2014-06-25 21:43:43

moetunes wrote:

The flicker was bad so I fixed it

https://github.com/defer-/nbwmon/issues/3

which terminal program, just out of interest?

defer · 2014-06-25 23:25:37

Flickering should be fixed now for urxvt (and others?).

jasonwryan · 2014-06-26 02:04:10

Splitting out the nbwmon posts to Community Contributions...

moetunes · 2014-06-26 08:04:46

stevenhoneyman wrote:

snip
which terminal program, just out of interest?

I use urxvtc and the latest update fixed the flicker.

Cheers

c0r73x · 2014-06-26 11:48:45

Nice program

May I suggest changing the colorstuff to:

start_color();
use_default_colors();
init_pair(1, COLOR_GREEN, -1);
init_pair(2, COLOR_RED, -1);

to use the terminal default background instead of black

ap0calypse · 2014-06-26 12:39:10

How about a PKGBUILD?
You can try my PKGBUILD from my github-project. should be pretty much the same

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wh/w … t/PKGBUILD

Of course you will need to add your stuff for compiling and remove my dependencies because my project is in perl, but maybe it helps.

All the best!

defer · 2014-06-26 12:57:21

c0r73x wrote:

use_default_colors();
init_pair(1, COLOR_GREEN, -1);
init_pair(2, COLOR_RED, -1);

Yes thats much better. Thanks.

ap0calypse wrote:

How about a PKGBUILD?

Might be a bit early for that. Would be good to test the program without making changes to code for some time first.

ap0calypse · 2014-06-26 13:28:06

defer wrote:

ap0calypse wrote:
How about a PKGBUILD?
Might be a bit early for that. Would be good to test the program without making changes to code for some time first.

Valid point.

lolilolicon · 2014-06-30 00:22:08

Hi defer, nice utility.
Do you plan to make the graph scale with the window size? Something like `nbwmon -l $(( LINES / 2 - 2 ))` is fine, just not quite handy.

defer · 2014-07-01 09:58:52

lolilolicon wrote:

Hi defer, nice utility.
Do you plan to make the graph scale with the window size? Something like `nbwmon -l $(( LINES / 2 - 2 ))` is fine, just not quite handy.

I added full height option (-f). I think the fixed height is good default because it may confuse if the graph height is not always the same.

lolilolicon · 2014-07-01 10:29:15

Huh, nice! And it scales, much better than my trick! Thanks

defer · 2014-07-01 19:27:33

lolilolicon wrote:

Huh, nice! And it scales, much better than my trick! Thanks

Now when i tested it i liked it so much i set it default. :-)

Last edited by defer (2014-07-01 22:07:25)

sekret · 2014-07-02 13:13:51

You're welcome (took about 1 minute)

defer · 2014-07-02 16:17:16

sekret wrote:

You're welcome (took about 1 minute)

Great! Thank you.

defer · 2014-09-19 16:44:17

0.4.3 is released with new UI style and other improvements.

Screenshot:

lolilolicon · 2014-09-19 17:18:08

The [ 0 B/s ] at the bottom is rather useless... To a less extent, the repetition of the max values also bothers me a little.

EDIT: My suggestion is to remove the bottom boxes, and place the numbers on the first line of each of the graphs.

Last edited by lolilolicon (2014-09-19 17:23:07)

x33a · 2014-09-22 08:03:25

lolilolicon wrote:

The [ 0 B/s ] at the bottom is rather useless... To a less extent, the repetition of the max values also bothers me a little.
EDIT: My suggestion is to remove the bottom boxes, and place the numbers on the first line of each of the graphs.

Or instead of the max value, use the current value over the graphs.

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