Internet Monitor

nickthebeer

Hi, only just discovered this module and it seems like a great idea however I cannot get the wifi symbol to appear.

Here’s my config for the module:

module: “internet-monitor”,
position: “bottom_center”,
header: “Internet Monitor”,
config: {
type: " ",
maxTime: “20000”,
updateInterval: “0”,
verbose: “false”,
displayStrength: “true”,
displaySpeed: “false”,
strengthIconSize: “80”,
maxGaugeScale: “100”,
wifiSymbol: {
size: “50”,
fullColor: “3afc25”,
almostColour: “#ffff0c”,
halfColor: “#ff8c00”,
noneColor: “#ff1111”
},
}
}

Am I being thick and have missed something?

Additionally is the wifi symbol a measure of internet speed on the pi or wifi strength to my AP?

bhepler

@nickthebeer - The WiFi symbol is actually a ping test to the testing server. Ping times > 150ms are marked as no signal, ping < 70ms is full strength.

Looking at the speedtest documentation, the API returns a “list of closest servers” after testing. Who knows how long that takes, especially if you’re using the original code without my updates. The node_helper.js then pulls the closest server and does a ping test.

I think this is just going to be a patience thing. Watch the console log for the line: ping. That’s the notification from the node_helper.js that the ping is complete. If the Wifi symbol doesn’t appear after that, come back and we’ll look at it.

mg_switch

@bhepler Confirming…100% working as suggested. I have included the local speedtest server to the config (serverID), the verbose now displays this server…and the speed gauges show the expected speeds, DLs and ULs. Nice work.

nickthebeer

@bhepler ok, I’m seriously missing something here…I removed the internet monitor folder and did a git pull from your page (https://github.com/BrianHepler/internet-monitor) and also cleared down my config.js to a simple config but it just doesn’t look right (see attached image) I’m missing the wifi symbol and it defaults to a speedtest server in Norway and not the one specified in the file (12667 in the US).

Please help, it’s slowly driving me insane.

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 *
 * For more information how you can configurate this file
 * See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration
 *
 */

var config = {
        address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
                              // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
                              // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
                              // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
                              // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
        port: 8080,
        ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
                                                               // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
                                                               // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
                                                               // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
                                                               // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

        language: "en",
        timeFormat: 24,
        units: "metric",

modules: [
        {
            module: 'internet-monitor',
            position: 'top_center',
            header: 'Internet Monitor',
            config:{
                type: '',
                maxTime: '20000',
                updateInterval: '0',
                verbose: 'true',
                serverID: '12667',
                displayStrength: 'true',
                displaySpeed: 'true',
                strengthIconSize: '80',
                maxGaugeScale: '100',
                wifiSymbol:{
                    size: '50',
                    fullColor: '#3afc25',
                    almostColor: '#ffff0c',
                    halfColor: '#ff8c00',
                    noneColor: '#ff1111'
                },
            },
        }
]
};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

bhepler

@nickthebeer - Dude I am so sorry! I just saw your post now. I don’t know why I didn’t get a notification. Let’s get you fixed up.

The problem is in the capitalization of the ServerId variable. You have Id in all caps. It’s uppercase “I” and lowercase “d”. Copy & paste this:

{
            module: 'internet-monitor',
            position: 'top_center',
            header: 'Internet Monitor',
            config:{
                type: '',
                maxTime: '20000',
                updateInterval: '0',
                verbose: 'true',
                serverId: '12667',
                displayStrength: 'true',
                displaySpeed: 'true',
                strengthIconSize: '80',
                maxGaugeScale: '100',
                wifiSymbol:{
                    size: '50',
                    fullColor: '#3afc25',
                    almostColor: '#ffff0c',
                    halfColor: '#ff8c00',
                    noneColor: '#ff1111'
                },
     }
},

chaseb1357

Yeah I am not able to get the plain WiFi symbol to appear as well. The heading size responds to the new sizing of where a symbol should be, but no symbol appears.

GoodWillGustin

I am also not getting the wifi icon to appear by itself. Hoping for an update/fix as I really love the idea of a wifi status icon on my MM.

mattx38

@GoodWillGustin I’d like to have it also.
I experience some wifi disconnections and I sometimes notice it couple hours after the issue. So that would be great to have it on the mirror, just like on the graphical UI of the Pi.

nickthebeer

@mattx38 I have just the Wifi icon on my MM, can you paste your config and I’ll take a look to at it. Also I setup a little script to restart my networking in the event of disconnection which I can share if that’ll help?

bhepler

Is the missing WiFi icon still an issue? I haven’t looked into that area of the code. If there seems to be a problem I can dive into it.