tonyvince / speedometer

Ruby script for monitoring your internet speed. Speed logging and Configurable email notifications

Speedometer

Speedometer is a simple ruby script that does the following

• Automatically check network speed every 20 minutes
• Log Date, Time, Download rate, Upload rate, and Latency to a csv file
• Send email notification if speed is less than a configurable minimum speed

you can see your speed log in log/speedlog.csv updated every n minutes.

email notifications look like this.

Prerequisites

• Ruby version 2.2 or higher (Tested on v 2.5.3)
• Postfix - For email notifications
• Cron - For periodicaly executing the script

Installation

1.Clone this repo

$ git clone [email protected]:tonyvince/speedometer.git

2.Install dependencies

Go to root $ cd speedometer and install dependecies using bundler $ bundle install.

if you see an error bundle: command not found then first install bundler $ gem install bundler

3.Edit settings

Open config/settings.yml on your favorite text editor to make changes.

Edit email_to - This is the email you will get email notifications.

Edit email_from - This is the email address that will appear as the sender of the notofocation.

Edit min_download_rate - If speed drops below this value, you will get an email notification

4.Change language (Optional)

To send notifications in a custom language, add a proper translation file in config/locales.

Refer config/locales/en.yml and config/locales/de.yml for formatting.

Change to your desired locale on line number 6 of runner.rb.

Ex:- if you want to send emails in Chinese, add a translations file zh.yml in config/locales directory. And change language in runner.rb line number 6

I18n.default_locale = :zh

5. Configure postfix to send emails.

Use postfix to send emails securly

I. Create a file to store the credentials:

$ sudo vi /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

II. Open the file to edit and add the email host data with the credentials:

smtp.gmail.com:587 [email protected]:your_password

III. Now run:

$ sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

IV. Prepare the postfix main config file:

$ sudo vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

V. Add/update these lines

relayhost = smtp.gmail.com:587
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_always_send_ehlo = yes
smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain

VI. Check postfix status

$ sudo postfix status

VII. If postfix is running already, restart the service to update the configuration

$ sudo postfix stop && sudo postfix start

if not, simply start the postfix service $ sudo postfix start

NOTE - If you are using gmail to send email notifications make sure to enable less secure apps for your account

6. Schedule the script to run every n minutes.

By default the script will run every 20 minutes. You can change this in config/schedule.rb.

Refer here for diffrent scheduling options.

Update crontab

run $ whenever -i to update the crontab to run the script every n minutes specvified in config/schedule.rb

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You are all set 👍

Troubleshooting

• Check cron log for any errors in the script - log/cron.log
• Check postfix emails que for any errors - $ mailq
• If you see 'Username and password not accepted' error in your postfix logs, check this

To Do

• Add unit tests.
• Make scheduling intervel easily configurable through settings.