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net-o-meter

This is the client code and vairous bits of hardware stuff for the london hackspace network bandwidth meter.

The code for the mbed can be found here:

http://mbed.org/users/Jasper/code/net-o-meter/

You might need to download http://www.iana.org/assignments/ianaiftype-mib/ianaiftype-mib to /var/lib/mibs/iana

talking to the mbed

You can see a summary of this at http://net-o-meter.local/

/v/r - reset the vfd.
/v/c - clear the vfd.
/v/p?x,y - set the cursor position to x,y. 0,0 is top left.
/v/w?text - write text at the current cursor position

led strip commands

top strip

/s/t? switch on num leds of the top led strip. num is between 0-16 inclusive.

e.g. "/s/t?8" would switch on the first 8 leds.

bottom strip

/s/b? switch on num leds of the bottom led strip. num is between 0-16 inclusive.

e.g. "/s/b?16" would switch on all the bottom leds.

setstrip

/s/set?<'t'|'b'>rgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgb Sets the leds on a strip to the 12 bit hex rgb value.

e.g.

  • "/s/set?tf00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00f00" set the top strip to all red
  • "/s/set?bf0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0ff0f" set the bottom strip to all purple
  • "/s/set?t000111222333444555666777888999aaabbbcccdddeeefff" set the top strip to gradually increasing white brightnesses

emf

/s/e (no args). switches all leds to a nice EMF blue colour.

e.g. "/s/e"

clear the strips

/s/clear switches the strips off.

vfd display commands

write

/v/w?. Writes "text" to the vfd starting at the current cursor position.

e.g. "/v/w?fish" would print "fish" on the vfd

position

/v/p?,. sets the vfd cursor position to x,y, x is 0 to 19 inclusive, and y is 0 to 3 inclusive. 0,0 is at the top left.

e.g.

  • "/v/p?0,0" set the cursor to the origin.
  • "/v/p?0,3" set the cursor to the beginning of the bottom line.

reset

/v/r (no args). toggles the VDF reset pin and then waits for it to come back online.

clear

/v/c (no args). clears all text on the vfd. does not reset the cursor position.

TODO

The client:

  • don't use snmp and instead get the stats from the kernel directly.
  • logging.
  • demonise.
  • double check the counter wrapping stuff
  • get the actual line speed from the adsl modem rather than hardcodeing it.

The net-snmp code on linux only updates the network stats every 15 secs...

http://www.fineconnection.com/How_to_set_the_net-snmp_agent_update_or_counter_refresh_interval

The mbed code:

  • publish the mbed code and add the url here
  • work out wtf's up with the busy signal
  • finish arbatry colour code
  • gamma correction and other colour fiddling?
  • possibly re-write to use ethernet.
  • upgrade mbed firmware: https://mbed.org/handbook/Firmware-LPC1768-LPC11U24