Raspberry Pi Hardware Usages

Provides real time percentages of cpu, memory, disk, and temperature of raspberry pi device (Unix based) through a web interface.

Motivation

• Wanted an easy way of accessing my raspberry pi hardware usages without opening an ssh shell and easily accessible through my phone.
• Consdered a web administration tool like webmin however after installing and running, it would use up half of my raspberry pi memory.
• Decided to implement a lightweight web interface that leverages REST through a micro framework called Flask.

Used Libraries

• Flask (A Python Microframework) - http://flask.pocoo.org/
• jQuery Knob (jQuery dial) - http://anthonyterrien.com/demo/knob/

Tech Stack

• Flask, jQuery, Ajax, JS, Unix Shell, HTML5, CSS

Setup

1. Install Python 2.7

• sudo apt-get install python

2. Install Flask

• pip install Flask

4. Modify CONFIG file

• Change host and port if necessary

3. Run the micro web service

• py run.py

Access via http://HOST:PORT (as configured in CONFIG file)