lamp on Nostr: oh, I had gotten an idea for a great #raspberrypi project: A network status display. ...
oh, I had gotten an idea for a great #raspberrypi project: A network status display.
For people with monthly data limits it's useful to know how much data has been used, so a little display showing stats from the gateway router would be a great idea. It could also show graphs and other cool things.
Obviously it is not really possible to add this functionality directly to the router and such routers don't really exist, so a raspberry pi would be needed to get information from the router via whatever APIs it has.
Of course, if the raspberry pi itself is the router, this is a lot more straightforward.
Or you could get a #bananapi R2, and have a gateway router with wifi, GPIO for LCD display, web server, and NAS storage all in one! Pretty epic!
For people with monthly data limits it's useful to know how much data has been used, so a little display showing stats from the gateway router would be a great idea. It could also show graphs and other cool things.
Obviously it is not really possible to add this functionality directly to the router and such routers don't really exist, so a raspberry pi would be needed to get information from the router via whatever APIs it has.
Of course, if the raspberry pi itself is the router, this is a lot more straightforward.
Or you could get a #bananapi R2, and have a gateway router with wifi, GPIO for LCD display, web server, and NAS storage all in one! Pretty epic!