Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I'd really need just the combined grand total of in/out, my 'data plan' has 25 Mb/month total transfer, going over that costs extra...

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Indeed. I only find this in regards to size:

I do like the look of those mockups (?) however, while I still see a point in clarifying what data connection the monitor is displaying (gprs, not e.g. wifi).

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Oh, would it be possible to have options for what to show, or even different layouts? As this widget would only need to show information, even a very small number in the corner would be enough.

This would do just fine for me, total data transferred (GPRS in+out).
This is 100%
http://qkpic.com/bea0d and
http://qkpic.com/32938 <- that would very nicely follow the rules too. =)

Nothing fancy, just the facts.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Sure not every single widget should have same width, but for consistent look of the homescreen it would be nice to keep the width as simmilar as possible, built-in calendar, media player and maps already do it.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I like the minimal design without the header, but I think the icon there keeps it consistant with the other widgets.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Great with the icons (also on background looking well), and the small numbers. Although I'd start to calculate in GB if MB is a number with 3 zeros. The left space on the second picture could contain the public IP address.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Just a BUMP!

Anything new on the development on this one?

(curious since i think this is a great idea.)

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Just working on this today, in fact. wazd has sent me his upload/download icons and I am hammering out the layout. I have finished adapting personal-ip-address, but I want to add a bit more functionality in that release before pushing to extras-devel.

Thanks for the interest!

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

np. i won't be shy to give critical feedback as well when i can test it myself ;)

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Don't know if this was already proposed, but for me a cool feature will be a 'spent money' feature. This is really easy to do, you only need to allow the user to enter a rate and then (rate x traffic) should give the spent money. This is very useful if you aren't using a data plan.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Version 0.5-1 with changed layout. Upload and download icon my wazd. Easier to read text. Smaller foot print. It is in extras-devel now, should move to extras-testing tonight.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

You could go completely overboard with this and make it so you can see a breakdown of data usage by application. No idea how you'd do that, but it'd be insanely useful.

Regards

Olympus

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Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Unfortunately, the data is not captured in such a way that I can display a breakdown by application. Something like that would have to implment its own data usage capturing, which is beyond the current scope of this application.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

this widget is very nice. question... how do you reset the meter?

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Generic method:
Settings -> Phone -> Data counter -> Reset.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I really don't like the much smaller footprint version. Oh well.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I'll make it an option in the next version.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

is a log implemented? or maybe possible, a simple text file, nothing to fancy like graphical illustration...just plain text

march: up 40MB down 5003MB total: 5043MB
april: up: 19MB down 238MB total 247 MB and so on

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

The problem is that by default a network filter isn't aware of application PID (process id, which leads to process name) because it doesn't have to, nor care.

In theory you can use ulogd2 for that (intro pt 1, intro pt 2) or if you don't mind sorting on protocol ntop will work. These provide a web interface though. Realtime monitoring sorting on protocol isn't hard either. Netstat even supports that. But thats not a widget, and it'd both complex and a seperate project.

Anyway, with ntop would become sth like attached screenshot.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Version 0.5-3 is now available. Hopefully this is the last version before it hits extras.

The user can now switch between "compact" (smallest footprint) layout and "non-compact" (larger footprint, title, icon) layout.

I have promoted the package to extras-testing. Please rate this program if you like it!

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...gprs-mon/0.5-3

Screenshot shows compact layout upper-left, and non-compact layout upper-right

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Personal Bandwidth Monitor is now in extras!

Thanks to all the testers, bug reports, and feature requests. I will start working on the next version with some sort of reset (either through the interface, or bring up the control panel dialog) and I'll look into data logging.

There is also a feature request to add a "combined" view to show total up/down added together.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I'm experiencing something strange. The data monitor resets itself periodically (without me doing it manually). I have seen the monitor reset itself a few times now, but the date of last reset does not change from when I reset the counter manually. Anyone seeing something similar?

TIA

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

No, but since personal-gprs-mon just reads the values from GConf that could be a Maemo bug. Have you noticed how high the counters go before resetting, or any way to reproduce it? Do both receive & transmit counters reset at the same time?

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Yes, I am pretty sure it is a Maemo bug, but I wanted to field the '300' here for their experience before filing a bug. I don't know how to reproduce it. Both tx and rx counters reset to zero, but the date stays the same. The highest I've seen the counters go is about 12MB or so.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

This is a known issue at this point and Nokia has an internal bug filed about the issue which was closed. I am still having this same issue and it seems to be caused by getting the phone into a high load/unresponsive state. Stuff like trying to run ustream.tv or transmission seems to cause the numbers to be reset.

Glad to see it's not just me that saw this problem.

Packet data counter
 

Is there any 3rd party application or built in application to show packet data counting?
I searched web and forum for it but i could not find any article about that :)

Re: Packet data counter
 

Threads merged.

Please read backwards through the thread.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

i can't reset my personal data plan monitor counters, no option is available when i click the widget setting!

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Settings -> Phone -> Data Counter ->Clear

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I think it's explained further up - but here it is again:
go to app list
open settings (that is the general settings for the N900 not a specific settings for data counter)
open phone
select datacounter
press "clear"

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

zerojay and niolajendel...thanks for the help

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

New version 0.6-3 in extras-devel

This version fixed the data counter problem introduced in PR1.2. There are now two data counters (home and roaming) that can be toggled between by pressing the applet. Or you can configure the applet to show the combined totals. It would be better if there was an indicator of which data counter you were currently veiwing - that will be an update for the next verison.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

since i can post on in there even when i have registered
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...onal-gprs-mon/

ill ask here
how do i set up alarmed to reset this every 30 days...?
is there a cmd i can use to reset the data usage

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

Does anyone know where I can find the dep file for this latest version I'm having problems refreshing my app manager.

Any help or links would be great, thanks
Chris

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

is there a similar program, but the downloaded data collected by the wireless network?

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

just a helpful post as i found it hard to find how to and alot of others do 2 maybe a post on the first post wuold b nice

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to set the counter to auto reset at a particular date use alarmed with its inbuilt feature
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and is there any chance auto reset getting built into the app?

i have free youtube, facebook, twitter, myspace on my plan could it be possible to add a "free section" where u could set certain addresses or predefined titles in the program to be set to the free area so it isn't tallied up in the main counter?
eg.
and the ability to change colour depending on your set limits eg green: is still lots left
yellow: getting close to limit
red: over limit


i have created a bugzilla post for this post please login and vote if u agree

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11155

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

I've made a german translation for this needy app.
But why it doesn't work on the phone.

I used 'PoEdit' with your de.po file included in the source,
translated it and moved thecreated 'personal-gprs-mon.mo' to
/home/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
but the widget still remains in english language.

Any hint to get it translated properly not using some hexediting?

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

For some reason my widget keeps resetting when it gets to 4.25gigs of transfer. I am only at 8.68gig for the month according to counter in the Settings>Phone, but the widget only says 86MB after a second reset since the beginning of the month. Anyone know why it is resetting and how i can get it to stop?

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

To me that looks like a buffer overflow.
4 GB are a lot and it might be that the used variable is too small for that.


And here the question I have:
Is there a way to get a n alarm when I reach the limit of my data plan?
Lets say I have 250MB for free, and then it gets expensive.
It would be great to have a warning at 200 MB and an alarm at 240MB, of course it would have to be configurable.
I am not sure if it is possible with this widget, maybe it more should be a daemon which checks every minute. Or maybe it exists already but I could not find anything.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle
 

For those requesting an alarm or some notification to alert you when you are near your limit:

Go to Settings> Phone> Network> Home Network Data
and tick "Enable Transfer Warning". Here you can enter the MB's that you want a warning to be displayed for.