#Gearhart internet usage monitor install
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The playbook installs all the tools you choose in your configuration file, and once that's done, you should be able to access your Pi's IP address in a web browser to see Pi-hole, or visit the IP address with the port :3030 on the end to see the Grafana dashboards.

Run the playbook: ansible-playbook main.yml.

from the filenames) and modify them for your own needs

Make copies of the and files (dropping the example.

#Gearhart internet usage monitor install

Install the Ansible Galaxy content that's required to make the playbook work: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml.

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Download the internet-pi repository to your computer: git clone & cd internet-pi.

(If pip3 is not installed) sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip.

Following the install instructions, you need to have a Pi set up with Raspberry Pi OS running on your network, and be able to SSH into the Pi. I set up my Internet Pi from another computer, but you could also run the Internet Pi playbook on the Pi itself. It's simple to set up, and you can choose which parts of the platform you want to use. I built the free and open source internet-pi project on GitHub. If you just spot check by running a Speedtest every now and then, you don't have much data to go on. Having a Pi monitoring my Internet continuously makes it easy to see trends over time, or confirm outages. The Internet Pi runs Pi-hole for DNS privacy and ad-blocking, and Prometheus and Grafana to provide Internet connection monitoring dashboards. WiFi, especially on the Pi, fluctuates quite a bit and is terrible for monitoring anything besides maybe WiFi signal strength. The most important thing for measuring a network connection is that it's wired. I have it installed in a rack (here's a video on the Pi rack), but it could just as easily be on my desk, or sitting by my Internet router. I have a video that goes along with this blog post, and it's embedded below skip past it if you prefer reading over viewing. I just like having a dedicated computer to run all my Internet connection tools, so it's easy to backup or replace, and it doesn't get bogged down.

#Gearhart internet usage monitor software

Well, I do, thanks to a $35 Raspberry Pi! And you don't even need a Pi, you could run the software I use on any computer. And are you really getting the speeds you pay for? You probably don't know.

Some would die for those speeds (see the map above), but much of the world is better off. And that's the highest plan that costs about $150 a month! Louis-where I guess I should count my lucky stars we have 'high use' broadband available-I have only two options: I can get 'gigabit' cable Internet from Spectrum, or 75 megabit DSL from AT&T.ДЄnd you're probably thinking, 'Gigabit Internet is great, stop complaining!'Д«ut Spectrum's 'gigabit' Internet is 930 megabits down-in ideal conditions-but only 40 megabits up. A recently-released map of broadband availability in the US paints a pretty dire picture: They've pushed for the FCC to continue defining 25 Mbps as 'high use' broadband, and on top of that they overstate the quality of service they provide. Internet Service Providers are almost universally despised.