[TelstraClear] Commandline Usage Meter

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archerfish

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#109581 22-Sep-2012 16:05

I am trying to write an App to pull my cable data usage from telstra's usage meter and display it on a small LCD screen.

The grand plan is to stick it on a RaspberryPi or similar and recess the an LCD into a blackboard in the kitchen so that everyone in the flat can see what the data usage is currently at, and other things such as how much power is been used from powershop etc..

Back to the problem:

There is a couple of old usage meters that used to connect to telstra and scrap the data, and have accessible code so I could see how they were collecting the data.
e.g.
http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/script/telstracabletraffic
http://netusage.iau5.com/

however neither of these still work with telstra's latest usage meter, (at least from my testing). I've tried tinkering with the code to see if I could get it to work with the "telstracabletraffic" script, but had no luck..

Does anyone have any tips on how I could scrape the usage info, officially/unofficially?

Ideally if I could get access to the CSV file that is available, I can graph and display the usage pretty easily.

Cheers

Andrew

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#689943 22-Sep-2012 17:37

Am am using the Firefox addon available from http://netusage.iau5.com

It works just fine.

According to the website the code is available here:
If you want to access the subversion repository, anonymous access is available at:

svn co http://netusage.iau5.com/svn/trunk/

archerfish

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#689944 22-Sep-2012 17:41

Hmmm... are you on cable or adsl? and are you using your account number or username to login with, I tried it last night with the netusage plugin and it didn't seem to work, but then again I could have been screwing something up...

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#689948 22-Sep-2012 17:47

archerfish: Hmmm... are you on cable or adsl? and are you using your account number or username to login with, I tried it last night with the netusage plugin and it didn't seem to work, but then again I could have been screwing something up...

I'm on cable and use my account number in the usage login field with my password. The same login and password I use to access the customer zone @ https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/selfservice-customerzone/login.jsf

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#689951 22-Sep-2012 17:50

kharris:
archerfish: Hmmm... are you on cable or adsl? and are you using your account number or username to login with, I tried it last night with the netusage plugin and it didn't seem to work, but then again I could have been screwing something up...

I'm on cable and use my account number in the usage login field with my password. The same login and password I use to access the customer zone @ https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/selfservice-customerzone/login.jsf

the two login types imply that for cable you use account number, but for adsl you use username... don't have an adsl account to test it on though.

Kirk

archerfish

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#689958 22-Sep-2012 18:14

Hmmm neither seem to work... It could be partly my work proxy connecting breaking the plugin connection, So I'll try it again at home.

Just to confirm, logging in manually via https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/selfservice-customerzone/login.jsf works fine with either my customer acc # or my telstra username + password.

Fetching data via plugin just ends up with no data...

damianh

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#689960 22-Sep-2012 18:28

I use TUC. I know it's not command line, but it does access and display your usage....

www.tuc.co.nz

Ledgy

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#689963 22-Sep-2012 18:30

I use this little program called traffic usage checker that runs on your computer at www.tuc.co.nz
Very accurate which shows how much used and left before next reset for Telstraclear, vodafone, xtra, orcon & much more.
Saves logging into places to check.

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teamyoyo

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#689967 22-Sep-2012 18:44

I have Tuc as well. I also have it output a usage log then I have Rainmeter parse the log for the last % and display it. Maybe you could do something similar

archerfish

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#689969 22-Sep-2012 18:46

cool, thanks for the link to tuc I'll have a look when I am back on my windows box at home.

Cheers

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#690105 23-Sep-2012 11:21

damianh: I use TUC. I know it's not command line, but it does access and display your usage....

www.tuc.co.nz

Thanks for mentioning TUC, I've just tried it out and it's very useful. Thanks!

archerfish

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#690134 23-Sep-2012 13:00

Looks Like I found the problem why my code and the netUsage extension app wasn't working...

During your first month of usage, when you click on account usage meter it goes straight to the current month's usage. Where as now that I've rolled onto my second month, I have to choose which month to view.

I am guessing all usage meters, (except for TUC) were expecting that select month page... and as it went straight to the meter page they failed...

Cheers

A.

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#690710 24-Sep-2012 16:31

I also use and like TUC. I monitor 2 different ISPs, TelstraClear and Woosh on my work PC. TC being my home network and Woosh for work. It shows the percentage used in the tool-bar along with the Service provider when using the /config=<config file> switch if you hover over either.

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#690963 25-Sep-2012 09:51

geek4me: I also use and like TUC. I monitor 2 different ISPs, TelstraClear and Woosh on my work PC. TC being my home network and Woosh for work. It shows the percentage used in the tool-bar along with the Service provider when using the /config= switch if you hover over either.

I have two Telstra accounts that I want to monitor with TUC. Up until now, I haven't understood the methodology of how to get them both monitored simultaneously, so I've been changing the login details on the GUI - which is a pain.
How do I configure it to display data for two accounts? (Step by step instructions, for a novice, please!)

Shadders

Ledgy

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#690969 25-Sep-2012 10:00

Now for some reason under Telstraclear using TUC it's coming up with

- Error 12007 the server name or address could not be resolved

Anyone else getting this?

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#690983 25-Sep-2012 10:26

Ledgy: Now for some reason under Telstraclear using TUC it's coming up with

- Error 12007 the server name or address could not be resolved

Anyone else getting this?

Yup, I'm getting this too. I see that someone has reported it on the TUC forum, and the creator of TUC knows about this problem, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon. See http://www.tuc.co.nz/board/index.php?topic=185.0

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