Vodacom Data Usage

A Mac OS X menu bar status item to show your daily quota usage. It retrieves your available balance directly every hour from the Vodacom website. If you have an appropriate local data usage monitor, it can retrieve your usage split between peak and off-peak.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7 or newer
• Xcode Command-Line Tools
• rumps: Ridiculously Uncomplicated Mac OS X Python Statusbar apps
• vnstat

NOTE: The original rumps repository is defective since the launch of Mac OS X Mavericks, so rather use [this](tail -f /var/log/Vodacom Data Usage.log) alternative.

Installation

• Download this code
• Install scripts/get_today_hourly_usage.sh on your internet gateway in ~/Scripts/get_today_hourly_usage.sh for a user with SSH keys set up (this is the default, but you can configure it to execute locally; check the monitor setting in the configuration file)
• Create directory and copy downloaded contents to /usr/local/vodacom_data_usage/ and run chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/vodacom_data_usage/
• Copy the plist file to /Library/LaunchAgents/ (and chown like above)
• Update the config file with your details: /usr/local/vodacom_data_usage/conf\Vodacom Data Usage.conf
• Run launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.whatsthatlight.VodacomDataUsage.plist to install it to auto start (it will start immediately)
• Run tail -f /var/log/Vodacom Data Usage.log to monitor the app

Errors

Check the log file.

Credits

Thank you to dryicons for the Coquette Icon Set.