Published June 22, 2019

Internet Speed Monitor

Let's test your broadband speed or internet speed through command line interface on odinub.

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Test your internet speed:

Step 0: WiFi Setup

Setup WiFi on your Odinub board by following the step given here.

Step 1: Update your board

Before starting the internet speed monitoring on your Odinub board we must make sure that it is up to date.

For update your Odinub execute following commands.

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2: Install require packages

Here we are going to use python for scripting and for internet speed monitoring we are utilizing it’s ‘speedtest-cli’ library. Using this library we can quickly retrive our current upload speed, download speed as well as current ping on Speedtest.net. Before we use this library we must first install python pip package as this library is not available on OS repository. So for this run following command.

sudo apt-get install python-pip

So for installing ’speedtest’ packages go to root directory and execute following command.

cd /tmpwget https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/archive/master.zip

Now extract the file you have downloaded.

unzip master.zip

After extracting this file make it executable by going to extracted directory and move this file to usr/local/bin by using following commands.

cd speedtest-cli-master/
chmod 755 speedtest.py
Sudo mv speedtest.py /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli

Step 3: Test your internet connection speed

Run the following command to test your internet or broadband download and upload speed.

speedtest -cli

If you want to check speed result in bytes than execute following command.

speedtest -cli --bytes

If you want to share the result than you can download the image of the result from the URL provided after executing the following command.

speedtest -cli --share

Image source: speedtest.net

If you want the information only about download, upload and ping than run following command.

speedtest -cli --simple

You can also check the list of server based upon the distance in km by using following command.

speedtest -cli --list

By searching the list in terms of distance you will get a big list of servers. If you want to check the result of servers for a specific area than run the following command.

speedtest -cli --list | grep -i india

Step 4: Writing our own speed test python script

Create a python script by executing the following command and write the python code given below.

cd ~sudo nano speedtest.py

Step 5: Test the python script

Here we are storing our output data in speedtest.csv file so we need to make a folder where it would be store.

mkdir ~/speedtest

Now we will go ahead and test the python script by using following command.

python ~/speedtest.py

Once the script finished its execution you can see the output by opening the.CSV file by executing the following command.

sudo nano ~/speedtest/speedtest.csv

Step 6: Automating the Internet speed monitor

Now if we want to automation means if we want to test the internet speed of Odinub right after its booting process than click here and follow the first two steps.

You just have to write the below line into rc.local file.

(sleep 30; python ~/speedtest.py)&

You can see the results when you reboot you Odinub.

So that's it. Now you guys should have your speed monitor on and running. I hope by end of this article you should now have your Odinub automatically internet speed monitor. If you do come across something then please feel free to send us your feedback.

speedtest.py

import os
import re
import subprocess
import time

#here we utilize the subprocess library to make a call to the speedtest-cli python script and tell it to combine everything from speedtest-cli to stdout. By stdout.read() we are storing the response to our variable.
response = subprocess.Popen('/usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli --simple', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()

#Below three lines use the re library which provides regular expression matching operations
ping = re.findall('Ping:\s(.*?)\s', response, re.MULTILINE)
download = re.findall('Download:\s(.*?)\s', response, re.MULTILINE)
upload = re.findall('Upload:\s(.*?)\s', response, re.MULTILINE)

#Below three lines are important as we use them to oclean up the numbers that we grabbed from the speedtest-cli output.Here we are saving the output data in .CSV file so all number values need to have the commas replaced with decimal points otherwise the CSV format will split the numbers into new columns.
ping = ping[0].replace(',', '.')
download = download[0].replace(',', '.')
upload = upload[0].replace(',', '.')

try:
    f = open('/home/pi/speedtest/speedtest.csv', 'a+')
    if os.stat('/home/pi/speedtest/speedtest.csv').st_size == 0:
            f.write('Date,Time,Ping (ms),Download (Mbit/s),Upload (Mbit/s)\r\n')
except:
    pass
print('Download speed:',download)
print('Upload speed:',upload)
print('Ping speed:',ping)
f.write('Date:''{}'.format(time.strftime('%m/%d/%y')))
f.write('\nTime:''{}'.format(time.strftime('%H:%M')))
f.write('\nPing speed:''{}'.format(ping))
f.write('\nDownload speed:''{}'.format(download))

Internet Speed Monitor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Test your internet speed:

Step 0: WiFi Setup

Step 1: Update your board

Step 2: Install require packages

Step 3: Test your internet connection speed

Step 4: Writing our own speed test python script

Step 5: Test the python script

Step 6: Automating the Internet speed monitor

Code

speedtest.py

Credits

Zalak Patel

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Internet Speed Monitor

Internet Speed Monitor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Test your internet speed:

Step 0: WiFi Setup

Step 1: Update your board

Step 2: Install require packages

Step 3: Test your internet connection speed

Step 4: Writing our own speed test python script

Step 5: Test the python script

Step 6: Automating the Internet speed monitor

Code

speedtest.py

Credits

Zalak Patel

Comments

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