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