Orange Pi PC LCD bandwidth monitor

orangepipc-lcd-bandwidth-monitor is a CLI software used to display download and upload speed (in KB/s) of a network interface, on a Nokia 5110 LCD display and made specifically for Orange Pi PC. A port of a PCD8544 arduino library is included, ported to work with WiringOP and used to interface with the screen.

Installation

Copy executable to /usr/bin and you're good to go. As for how to connect the pins to the screen, a mapping is provided by defines in main.cpp.

A precompiled binary is available in the releases page for usage on Orange Pi PC, or else you can refer to the building instructions below.

Building

Dependencies:

ifstat, tail and column commands
WiringOP from Xunlong's official repository
PCD8544.h included in this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/neeedle/orangepipc-lcd-bandwidth-monitor.git
$ cd orangepipc-lcd-bandwidth-monitor
$ make

Usage

$ orangepipc-lcd-bandwidth-monitor -i interface [-d interval] [-b] [-h]

Options

-i: Interface name (eth0, tun0, etc.)
-d: (Optional) Screen update delay, in milliseconds. Defaults to 1000 (1 second)
-b: (Optional) Turn backlight on if present. Off by default
-h: Print usage.

Licenses