This repository contains the code and the setup process to build your own networking speed monitoring using linux and a few tools.

Attention: There are many absolute paths in this repository that need to be adapted if your code does not reside under /home/pi/SpeedCheck and the gdrive executable does not lie under /home/pi

1. Install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install speedtest-cli

2. Test Scripts

Test the Speedtest Command Line Interface: speedtest-cli --simple

Test the python script: python /home/pi/SpeedCheck/speedtest.py --> should output some values separated by ;

Test the bash script: should output the csv line to your console: /home/pi/SpeedCheck/speedtest-cron.sh

should write the csv line into your csv file python /home/pi/SpeedCheck/speedtest.py >> /home/pi/SpeedCheck/SpeedMeasurements.csv

3. Optional: Setup GoogleDrive

Download the gdrive executable (https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive) and give it executable rights.

wget -O gdrive https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3X9GlR6EmbnVXNLanp4ZFRRbzg&export=download
chmod +x gdrive
./gdrive list

After the last command, Google Drive asks you for authentication via a link. You need to do this only once. If you have been successfully authenticated, you can create a directory in the Google Drive, this returns an ID that we need to use in the speedtest-cron.sh if you want to use the google drive.

./gdrive mkdir SpeedCheck
./gdrive sync upload SpeedCheck <ID>

4. Setup the cronjob

Use crontab -e to edit the configuration and enter the following line to run the bash script every full hour:

0 */1 * * * /home/pi/SpeedCheck/speedtest-cron.sh

5. Diagrams

To generate diagrams the repo contains an R script. You can add the generation of the diagrams to the bash script or run it in a separate cron job / manually. To execute it and generate the pdf use R < CreateDiagrams.R --no-save. The prerequisite here is, that you have R installed (r-base, r-recommended) as well as the parsedate package.