Vincent Willcox has taken one of Percheron Electronics’ e-paper HATs and created an internet speed analyser. He has released all the code onto GitHub so that you can re-produce his work. Take a look here. The speed scan is triggered either by scheduled task (cron) or by pressing a button on the HAT.
You stole my name. 🙂 I almost thought I’d written this article.
LOL. 🙂
Hi Michael(2),
Thank you for sharing this. This started of as a simple project to enable plug-and-play speed-testing at clients houses.
It has now grown the screen, but in the coming months it will also grow into a fully fledged network testing appliance.
It will be able to tell you how the lan-port is configured (half-duplex/full duplex, 10/100Mb/s – though sadly not 1000Mb/s due to Pi limitations)
It will also have local net speed-testing with two Pi’s setup on a network speed testing each other and pining back and forward.
You’re welcome 🙂
I can’t wait to try it out on my e-paper screen which is sat at home waiting for me 🙂
I would like to make one but I have a 3.2″ touch screen. How hard would it be to use it! Fairly new to RP but tech savvy.
All depends how you display things on the screen. If it’s just a straight output then you’ll need a GUI tool of some kind. Take a look at Kivy.
You could also use pygame to display to the screen.