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[SOLVED] Monitoring Daily Data Usage on Linux

[SOLVED] Hurray! I did it!

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Solution: You need to have Generic monitor xfce link installed [available almost on every DE out there]

Two finger Tap on Panel Panel (dropdown) > Panel Preferences > Items > Add Item > Generic Monitor

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In generic monitor give the exact location of the script like I have done here (also copy other details too)

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Now save

Here’s what is in the trial file


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">eleven=$(vnstat --json | jq --arg day "$(date +'%d')" --arg month "$(date +'%m')" '.interfaces[0].traffic.day[] | select(.date.day == ($day | tonumber) and .date.month == ($month | tonumber)) | (.rx + .tx) / (1024*1024*1024)')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rounded_eleven=$(printf "%.2f" "$eleven")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo " $rounded_eleven GB"
</span>

And that’ about it, for Network Usage Gouger you need Network Monitor Package xfce4-netload-pluginYou can see more into here

Adios!

[ORIGINAL POST]

edit: I am open to installing other packages, I ain’t married to any of these packages.

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I have installed vnstat package and it’s quite handy. I have a few questions about it though.

  1. What is rx & tx mean in this package? rx stands for received``tx stands for transmission

Is there a command to check data usage on my system using this? I mean, I want to create a Add an item to my panel which will show me my daily data usage updating it every minute. Basically, I want to to see what the arrow points to on the panel next to my date and I want it to update it every minute. I have 1.5GBs of data a day and I usually am not able to use it efficiently or I use too early and spent hours without data. So, I want to try and handle this problem by monitoring my data.

Note: I want to measure gauge data speed here, not do a speed test on how fast my internet is.

Also, I want to monitor the instantaneous rate of data usage and for that package bwm-ng does a great job, but I want to see in the panel and I want it to update every 0.5 s how can I achieve this?

I would like for a command to either view red arrow or the black arrow with the right mark depending upon which of them is instantaneous data speedhttps://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/02bbfd0e-ccb9-4a83-afc6-8c30e7788316.png

Note to Future self: rx : received``tx : transmission``lo : local loopback``wlan0 : ethernet

IsoKiero ,

I want to create a Add an item to my panel

On which environment? I’m pretty sure there’s option on most of the window managers to display output of an command on a panel and (while it might need some scripting) it should be easy(ish, YMMV) to implement that.

Subject6051 OP ,

MX Linux xfce

I know it can be done because I have done it for something else. I don’t know the commands to view those particular columns in the command tho.

IsoKiero ,

I’m not familiar with vnstat, but man page mentions --oneline -parameter, so something like vnstat --oneline|cut -d’;’ -f6 might be pretty close and you could format that as you wish with sed or awk, shell script or even python if you like.

Subject6051 OP ,

thank you very much! it works!

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