Project:BandwidthMeter

Net-o-Meter

This is a network bandwidth meter, it is made from a good quality mbed, a good quality Futuba VFD display, a good quality programmable 32 rgb led strip, a fairly decent home made PCB, a poor quality bodged together laser cut acrylic lid, and a bad quality bodged together wooden case.

It has a 2nd hand 5V 5Amp PSU.

It uses ethernet to talk to things and understands http.

It uses bonjour/mdns/whatever it's name is to announce its self to the network and can be found on http://net-o-meter.local/ .

There is some code on adminstuff (run as user bmeter) which fetches stats from boole and pokes the bandwidth meter with things to display.

pics of build

• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1344787782/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1344787804/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1345670317/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1345670321/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1339360490/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1339360492/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1339360508/
• http://pointless.net/photos/id/1339361000/

Code now on github:

https://github.com/londonhackspace/net-o-meter

and the mbed code is here:

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

New mbed code, now works over ethernet!

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