internet-monitor

This Node application automatically measures internet speed information at regular intervals (using the speedtest-net node package) and inserts the information into a MongoDB database.

I designed the application to run on my raspberry pi, which can stay up and running 24/7 on my home network.

Setup

Requirements

• Node
• npm
• MongoDB

Setup

1. Run npm install to grab required node modules
2. Edit config.json with your desired parameters
   • db/collection names
   • frequency of speed measurements
3. Start MongoDB
4. Run src/setup/setup.js
   • This will create a database and collection in Mongo

Startup

To start the application, run src/app/main.js.

You will probably want to run this application on a remote device so that you can constantly monitor speeds without having to keep a personal or work machine online constantly. Given this, I recommend that the app be run through ssh using nohup (so that the process does not die when the ssh connection ends). To do that, run ssh user@target "nohup ~/path/to/repo/src/app/main.js > app.out 2> app.err < /dev/null &".

Teardown

For convenience, I have also included a teardown script that will delete the database. To run the teardown, just execute src/setup/teardown.js.