Polybar Online

Polybar Online is a script for Polybar that displays an internet connection indicator in a panel with the ability to send a notification when the connection is broken and restored.

Why another one?

I've been looking for a similar module for myself and even found a couple. But they didn't run on my machine... So I decided that it would be faster to write my own than to poke around in someone else's. (and others are not able to send notifications!!!)

Requirements

The script tested on Python 3.10 and does not use any third-party libraries, but you will need to install some Nerd fonts in order for the icons to be displayed. It's not necessary if you're going to use your own icons from other fonts, though.

You should also make sure that you have libnotify on your Linux system, because the script uses the notify-send command

Installing

Clone the repository to a convenient location. For example, in ~/.config/polybar/:

cd ~/.config/polybar/
git clone https://github.com/Leetovskiy/polybar-online 

You can also globally install Polybar Online from PyPI using pip.

sudo pip install polybar-online

Configuration

The script takes some arguments from the terminal to control its operation. These are, for example, enabling and disabling Internet connection status change notifications, setting icons, etc.

Use the command polybar-online -h to see the full list of available options.

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n, --notify, --no-notify
                        send a notification if the internet connection is broken (default: False)
  --online-icon ONLINE_ICON
                        icon that will be displayed when the Internet connection is available (default: 度)
  --offline-icon OFFLINE_ICON
                        icon that will be displayed when there is no Internet connection (default: ﴹ)
  -ci CHECK_INTERVAL, --check-interval CHECK_INTERVAL
                        Interval between checks (in seconds)
  -ri RETRY_INTERVAL, --retry-interval RETRY_INTERVAL
                        Interval between checks when Internet connection is unavailable (in seconds)

Using

You need to put the script path in a special custom/script section of your Polybar configuration file. You also need the tail parameter set to true. Do not forget to add the new module to your panel's module list and set the Nerd font.

Example:

[bar/mybar]
modules-right = online
font-0 = "Ubuntu Nerd Font:size=12"

[module/online]
type = custom/script
exec = python ~/.config/polybar/polybar-online/polybar_online/main.py --notify -ci 5
tail = true

# or like this, if you installed the script globally with pip
exec = polybar-online --notify -ci 5

License

This little project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, so you are free to use it according to the terms of the license.

Contribution

If you know how to improve this project or would like to contribute yourself, you are welcome. I'm open to suggestions, so you can create an issue, and I'll consider pull requests from you as well.

Roadmap

• Localization in Russian and other languages
• Distribution as a binary (using nuitka)
• AUR package