vicious/wifi.lua

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Lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
-- * (c) 2009, Adrian C. <anrxc.sysphere.org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local tonumber = tonumber
local io = { popen = io.popen }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local string = {
find = string.find,
match = string.match
}
-- }}}
-- Wifi: provides wireless information for a requested interface
module("vicious.wifi")
-- {{{ Wireless widget type
local function worker(format, iface)
-- Get data from iwconfig (where available)
local f = io.popen("iwconfig " .. iface)
local iw = f:read("*all")
f:close()
-- Default values
local winfo = {
["{ssid}"] = "N/A",
["{mode}"] = "N/A",
["{chan}"] = "N/A",
["{rate}"] = "N/A",
["{link}"] = 0,
["{sign}"] = "N/A"
}
-- Check if iwconfig wasn't found, can't be executed or the
-- interface is not a wireless one
if iw == nil or string.find(iw, "No such device") then
return winfo
end
-- The output differs from system to system, some stats can
-- be separated by =, and not all drivers report all stats
winfo["{ssid}"] = -- SSID can have almost anything in it
string.match(iw, 'ESSID[=:]"([%w%p]+[%s]*[%w%p]*]*)"') or winfo["{ssid}"]
winfo["{mode}"] = -- Modes are simple, but also match the "-" in Ad-Hoc
string.match(iw, "Mode[=:]([%w%-]*)") or winfo["{mode}"]
winfo["{chan}"] = -- Channels are plain digits
tonumber(string.match(iw, "Channel[=:]([%d]+)") or winfo["{chan}"])
winfo["{rate}"] = -- Bitrate can start with a space and we want to display Mb/s
string.match(iw, "Bit Rate[=:]([%s]?[%d%.]*[%s][%/%a]+)") or winfo["{rate}"]
-- winfo["{link}"] = -- Link quality can contain a slash: 32/100
-- string.match(iw, "Link Quality[=:]([%d]+[%/%d]*)") or winfo["{link}"]
winfo["{link}"] = -- * match only the first number, also suitable for a progressbar
tonumber(string.match(iw, "Link Quality[=:]([%d]+)") or winfo["{link}"])
winfo["{sign}"] = -- Signal level can be a negative value, also display decibel notation
string.match(iw, "Signal level[=:]([%-%d]+[%s][%a]*)") or winfo["{sign}"]
return winfo
end
-- }}}
setmetatable(_M, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })