Mobile data usage monitoring (dataMonitor app)

Lakotaubp

@ricardo65 No worries we all start somewhere and learn as we go.

matteo

@ricardo65 apparently you also have a ril_0 gsm connection, so how strange, it should work. In the next days I'll make some verification with my SIM in to see if something changed during the time I worked exclusively on the wi-fi connection. For now, thank you Ricardo, you have been so helpful so far

ricardo65

@matteo Thank you very much for your patience with me, whatever it takes.

ricardo65

@ricardo65 said in Mobile data usage monitoring (dataMonitor app):

@matteo Thank you very much for your patience with me, whatever it takes.

You're welcome, whatever it takes. I've installed version 0.1.2 and I have the same problem, in case it helps

matteo

@ricardo65 Ricardo thank you for your feedback but please keep always the most up to date version since I don't remember the issues I got with the previous versions, so I want to be sure it is not going to break your phone. In the next days I'll try to find some free time to check the data monitoring with my SIM (hopefully this weekend).

Matteo

matteo

@ricardo65 as promised, I made some inspections on my phone regarding the SIM data reception and storage.
I found the reason why the received data monitoring worked for me but not for you: if you see below the output of ifconfig -a, in my case the working SIM connection is the one named rmnet1 which is a Point-to-Point interface type. In your case you got instead a weird UNSPEC specification (see earlier output of yours for rmnet0 connection) which I didn't expect to occur and because of that a portion of fundamental code was skipped in your case. I already made a fix for that Thank you for noticing and for informing me about that issue by the way, working only on my phone could lead to flaws in the code sometimes.
Just please wait until I'll issue the 0.1.7 updated version, which I'm planning to do very soon and which will hopefully bring additional improvements (to the daemon and settings).

Kind regards,

Matteo

hablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ifconfig -a
ip6tnl0   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          NOARP  MTU:1452  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:228 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:228 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:26852 (26.8 KB)  TX bytes:26852 (26.8 KB)

rmnet0    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet1    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          inet addr:10.48.87.3  P-t-P:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:10736783 (10.7 MB)  TX bytes:452452 (452.4 KB)

rmnet2    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet3    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet4    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet5    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet6    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

rmnet7    Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 38:bc:1a:1c:ee:bd  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ricardo65

@matteo Thank you very much.

matteo

Hi All,
I'm happy to announce that the version 0.1.7 is out. The main modifications are related to make the monitoring activity working also for the SIM connection due to a nasty bug @ricardo65 highlighted to me, which I hope I got rid of. Moreover, as advised before I modified the daemon files to be more simple and useful (but in future I'd eventually need to tinker those files again to bring somehow an automatic time step adjustment - Future Enhancement); who has got already the app installed needs first to delete the previous daemon files, from Settings page before having the new versions working; in addition, now the app shows many more options in the Settings page with the aim of putting in place the highest customization as possible for the app, in the very genuine Linux spirit.
For a better look at the modifications, see here below the log:

-Version 0.1.7-

Fixed bug which prevented the app to work for the SIM connection (feedback needed on this).
Daemon .conf files modified in a more useful and simple way. To get rid of the previous .conf versions, user to go to 'Settings', to push 'remove daemon', to exit from the app and open the app again to have the new .conf files copied at the .config/upstart location.
Added new settings in the 'Settings' page:
1. Switch to enable colors by theme global selection or to be custom set; user can now set a custom color + opacity for the background, lines, font, buttons, graph grid and bars;
2. Switch + button to enable the global theme selection by daylight (between Ambiance and SuruDark only), setting a threshold time;
3. Slider to custom set the daemon time step for its idle activity, to better control the battery energy drain.
Minor bug fixes.

Thank you.

Matteo

ricardo65

@matteo thank you very much.one question from where can i download version 0.1.7?

matteo

@ricardo65 from my repository page ---> here. If you are going to build the app yourself on your phone, don't forget to run first a clickable build-libs to compile the executable file, before to run clickable to build on your phone. Let me know ;). Regards.

ricardo65

@matteo I can't find the click file to install it

matteo

@ricardo65 I thought you were compiling from the source. However, I just now uploaded the .click file for armhf architecture. Please head to my repository I pointed you out just in the above message reply.
I also tried to compile a .click for arm64 arch, but it threw an error to me and I have to give a better look at what's wrong with the compilation of the Actiondaemon binary for arm64.

ricardo65

@matteo I don't know how to compile. Thank you very much for the effort.

ricardo65

@matteo Inform you that I have tried the app and the quwifi readings, they are only from wifi when I connect to the sim it does not give any reading, and the one that appears is from the wifi.please check

ricardo65

@matteo Please ignore the last message, I have restarted the mobile and I have only put the sim and I have taken the consumption well and put it in the section of the sim.any anomaly that I observe I will communicate

matteo

@ricardo65 please tell me if you find any misbehavior like the one you noticed before. It's strange, the two data shall not be mixed together. Let me now.

In the meantime, I finally by-passed the error thrown with the arm64 compilation and I uploaded also the clickable for this architecture. To download it, please head to --------->.click for arm64

I hope starting since now I'll receive some feedback from Pinephone/Raspberry Pi owners too

Regards,

Matteo

ricardo65

@matteo Any anomaly I see, I'll let you know. Thank you.

matteo

New app version 0.1.8 is available for both architecture armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.
Change log is the following:

-Version 0.1.8-

Indicator facility added for a quicker glance at data usage. It's optional and the user can decide whether to install it or not, from Settings. The implementation is based on the indicator-weather by B. Douglass and the recently released indicator-upower by Ernest: thanks to both the developers.
Merged MR made by Jonatan Ziegler, who modified the mattdaemon.conf file and the relevant CMakeLists.txt to be architecture agnostic. To have the new file in place, you need to head to Settings, remove the daemon files by means of the dedicated button, close the app and re-open soon after to have automatically installed the new daemon files.
Fixed a bug preventing to build for the arm64 architecture: clickable complained for too many zeroes of a constant number defined in the networkdaemon.cpp file only for being as big as possible but exceeding the long type capability. Reducing the number of zeroes did the trick.

matteo

New app version 0.1.9 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.

-Version 0.1.9-

A brand new app restyling has been introduced with the present version. All the credits go to Michele (@mymike00 on Telegram) who made that possible! Thank you again Michele, this app is becoming more and more the flagship contribution of the Italian Community for the UBports - Ubuntu Touch project.
New gesture added for the graph: starting since now you can long swipe to the right/left on the graph to have a look at the data usage archived for the earlier/later months.
Added new Gestures info page and Credits page to the Information page of the app.
For the graph, modified X axis scale to accommodate better the days labels and enlarged bars graphical horizontal edge (smaller gap between two adjacent bars) within each time step.
Minor bug fixing.

matteo

New app version 0.1.9.2 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository. This version in mainly aimed to solve this bug

Change log:

-Version 0.1.9.2-

Fix to issue #5 "Inconsistent values (even negative)"; Actiondaemon.cpp file modified.