Prerequisites:

You need the following software installed for this script to work:

Curl - http://curl.haxx.se/

Gawk - http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/

These packages should be available in you distribution's repository.

And of course Conky and an active Internode account.

Configure:

Make sure the script is executable:

$ chmod 755 node-usage.sh

Add the following line to ~/.netrc remember to change 'myself'(username) and 'secret'(password)

machine customer-webtools-api.internode.on.net login myself password secret

Example of doing it via terminal:

$ echo "machine customer-webtools-api.internode.on.net login myself password secret" >> ~/.netrc

now to be safe do:

$ chmod 600 ~/.netrc

This is to make sure that the file is only readable by your account.

To get the script to update for example every 30 minutes do the following to cron:

$ crontab -e

and now add:

*/30 * * * * ~/programs/scripts/node-usage.sh

And it best not to have it updating anything less than 30 minutes.

Usage:

Here is the snippet of the code for the ~/.conkyrc file:

${color #5b6dad}Internode Usage: ${hr 1}
 ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-percent.txt}% ${execibar 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-graph.txt}
 ${color #5b6dad}Used: ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-used.txt}   ${color #5b6dad}Quota: ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-quota.txt}${alignr}${color #5b6dad}Days Left: ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-rollover.txt}
 ${color #5b6dad}Today: ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-today.txt}${alignr}${color #5b6dad}Remaining: ${color #7f8ed3}${execi 900 cat ~/.config/internode/cache/node-remaining.txt}

FAQ:

What is Conky?

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

Where can I run the node-usage.sh script?

In theory anywhere you like under your home directory

Where does Node Usage for Conky store its files?

You'll find them in your home directory under .config/internode/

What are all theses files in ~/.config/internode/cache/ directory?

These files are used to store the data that can be used in Conky.

Here is a break down of the files and what they used for:

• node-curdayavg.txt - The average you can use for the day
• node-graph.txt - percentage for producing the graph
• node-left.txt - Data you have left for the month
• node-percent.txt - percentage of data used
• node-quota.txt - Monthly data quota
• node-remaining.txt - Usage left for the month + day average
• node-rollover.txt - The date your account rolls over
• node-today.txt - Todays data used
• node-used.txt - Overall data used for the month

How do monitor multiple accounts?

create an account directory in ~/.config/internode and create a ~/.config/internode/account/.netrc file.

Then execute the script like this node-usage.sh account