LaMetric System Monitor

Monitor your system metrics (Windows) on Lametric's Time.

What is LaMetric System Monitor?

This utility parses the HWiNFO's data from remotehwinfo's json server and pushes it to LaMetric Time via an Indicator App.

How to Use

Requirements

• LaMetric Developer Account with Time registered (Sign up here: https://developer.lametric.com)
• HWiNFO - https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
• HWiNFO JSON Web Server
• Python3
• Python3 modules: requests, json and yaml (integration with home assistant)

How to create an Indicator App?

• Follow this tutorial to create an Indicator App https://lametric-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/first-steps/first-lametric-indicator-app.html.
• Make sure to select PUSH as communication protocol and publish as PRIVATE app.
• Copy the local url (much advised for faster and reliable updates)

Usage

• Fork this repository:

  $ git clone https://github.com/iganeshk/LaMetric-System-Monitor.git
  $ cd LaMetric-System-Monitor
  $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  

• Configure the following in lametricSysMon.py using any editor:

  # Connection
  REMOTE_MONITOR_IP = ""                      # Default: 127.0.0.1
  REMOTE_MONITOR_PORT = ""                    # Default: 8085
  
  # LaMetric Credentials
  LA_TOKEN = "YOUR_APP_TOKEN"
  LA_PUSH_URL_LOCAL = "YOUR_LOCAL_PUSH_URL"   # Prefer local address if app running on a local network
  

• Run the following command on your system or raspberrypi or any python3 installed environment with local network access.

  $ python3 lametricSysMon.py
  

Installation (systemd service for Linux Environment)

• Then we create a systemd (service manager) script by copying the following in to /etc/systemd/system/lametric.service.
• Confirm your python3 path by running which python3.

  [Unit]
  Description=Lametric Time System Monitor Screen
  After=syslog.target network-online.target
  
  [Service]
  Type=forking
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/nice -n 19 '/usr/bin/python3 /root/lametricSysMon.py'
  Restart=always
  RestartSec=5
  KillMode=process
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

• Enable the systemd service to run on startup, then start the service and check its status. (by default set to run at startup)

  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  sudo systemctl enable lametric
  sudo systemctl start lametric
  sudo systemctl status lametric
  

Remote HWiNFO Installation

• Grab the latest release and extract the executable.
• Make sure HWiNFO is running and set to start up with Windows.
• Create the following task in the scheduler with highest privileges with "At Start Up" with the following flags:
  • Security Options: Run whether user logged in or not (with credentials)
  • Trigger: At Start Up
  • Action: Start a Program
    • Program/Script Path: Executable Path
    • Arguments: -port 8085 -hwinfo 1 -gpuz 0 -afterburner 0 -log 0
    • Start In: Executable Path
• Open port 8085 in the Windows Firewall for private network