monitoring_browser

A fullscreen monitoring browser in PySide and Qt Webkit.

It can rotate between multiple URLs with a given amount of seconds.

Configuration

To display websites in fullscreen, just edit webkit.py and change the lines to have:

url = QUrl("http://www.zoobab.com")
self.sites.append(Site(url, 10, 1.5))

url = QUrl("http://www.linuxfr.org")
self.sites.append(Site(url, 10, 1))

url = QUrl("http://demo.kibana.org")
self.sites.append(Site(url, 15, 1))

url = QUrl("http://demo.mathias-kettner.de/demo/check_mk/")
url.setUserName("demo897");
url.setPassword("demo");
self.sites.append(Site(url, 15, 1))

Be careful to add 4 spaces in front for python indentation.

The second argument is the time delay, and the third one is the zoom level.

Dependencies

Tested on gentoo, you will need to install dev-python/pyside with the webkit USE flag:

$ USE="webkit" emerge -1 dev-python/pyside

For other distros, your feedback in welcomed.

Would love to see documentation on how to install it for Raspbian.

Telnet interface

It is also accessible via telnet localhost port 4242 where you can change some configs on the fly (like zoom level, refresh, delay, get the status of the list, add or remove an URL, etc...)

zoobab@turmes /home/zoobab [1]$ telnet 127.1 4242
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
turmes % help
>> help
avaible commands:
  fs
  help
  restart
  upgrade
  list
  zoom
  refresh
  next
  add
  del
  exit
turmes % list
>> list
current list:
 [0] 10s : http://status.mobilevikings.com/
 [1] 10s : http://ihackernews.com
 [2] 10s : http://demo.kibana.org
*[3] 10s : http://logstash.openstack.org
 [4] 15s : http://demo897:demo@demo.mathias-kettner.de/demo/check_mk/
turmes %

TODO

• Raspberrypi / raspbian installation
• Change user-agents for certain sites
• Handle URLs that fails
• Document the API accessible at: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 4242

Video

See here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPF1F0_Uao