79 lines
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79 lines
2.5 KiB
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# Wireless status widget/watcher
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Get wireless Quality link (converted to percentages) and wireless status.
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Data is taken from `/proc/net/wireless`.
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According to [this](https://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.Extensions.html)
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website `/proc/net/wireless` has the following information:
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- Status: Its current state. This is a device dependent information.
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- Quality - link: general quality of the reception.
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- Quality - level: signal strength at the receiver.
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- Quality - noise: silence level (no packet) at the receiver.
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- Discarded - nwid: number of discarded packets due to invalid network id.
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- Discarded - crypt: number of packet unable to decrypt.
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- Discarded - misc: unused (for now).
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This widget uses `Quality - link` and converts it to percentages (`perc=Quality_link*10/7`).
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The above equation is taken from [this](https://superuser.com/a/1360447) forum answer.
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It also stores `Status` information (note that this is presumably device dependent).
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## Requirements
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- `iw`
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## Usage
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- Download [wirelessStatus.lua](https://awesomewm.org/recipes/wirelessStatus.lua) file and put it
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into awesome's folder (like `~/.config/awesome/widgets/wirelessStatus.lua`)
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- Add widget to `theme.lua`:
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```lua
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local widgets = {
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wirelessStatus = require("widgets/wirelessStatus"),
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}
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-- Wireless status widget (`status` is presumably device dependent)
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theme.wirelessStatus = widgets.wirelessStatus({
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notification_preset = { font = "Mononoki Nerd Font 10", fg = theme.fg_normal },
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timeout = 10,
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settings = function(self)
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if self.status == "1" or self.status == "" then
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wifidisc)
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else
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if self.perc <= 5 then
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wifinone)
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elseif self.perc <= 25 then
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wifilow)
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elseif self.perc <= 50 then
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wifimed)
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elseif self.perc <= 75 then
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wifihigh)
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else
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self.widget:set_image(theme.wififull)
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end
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end
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end,
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})
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local widget_wirelessStatus = wibox.widget { nil, theme.wirelessStatus.widget, layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal }
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```
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- Set which application to run on widget press (add to `rc.lua`):
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```lua
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-- wirelessStatus widget pressed function - open terminal and start `nmtui`
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beautiful.wirelessStatus.pressed = function(self, button)
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if button == 1 then -- left mouse click
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awful.spawn(terminal.." -e nmtui")
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end
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end
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```
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