# hbmonitor3 Python 3 implementation of N0MJS HBmonitor for HBlink ***This software is VERY, VERY, VERY new!*** Since Python 3 is the way of the future, I'm updating the HBmonitor code from Python 2 to Python 3. __THIS SOFTWARE IS WORKING__, hopefully... Questions, comments, and complaints can be forwarded to the DVSwitch group at [DVSwitch - HBlink Subgroup](https://dvswitch.groups.io/g/HBlink/topics) If you would like to contribute to this effort, please submit updated code as a PR to this repository. ***73, KC1AWV*** --- Modified version by SP2ONG 2019 --- **Socket-Based Reporting for HBlink** Over the years, the biggest request recevied for HBlink (other than call-routing/bridging tools) has been web-based diagnostics and/or statistics for the program. I strongly disagree with including the amount of overhead this would require inside HBlink -- which still runs nicely on very modest resources. That it does this, and is in Python is a point of pride for me... Just let me have this one, ok? What I have done is added some hooks to HBlink, which will be expanded over time, whereby it listens on a TCP socket and provides the raw data necessary for a "web dashboard", or really any external logging or statistics gathering program. HBmonitor is my take on a "web dashboard" for HBlink. ***THIS SOFTWARE IS VERY, VERY NEW*** Right now, I'm just getting into how this should work, what does work well, what does not... and I am NOT a web applications programmer, so yeah, that javascript stuff is gonna look bad. Know what you're doing? Help me! It has now reached a point where folks who know what they're doing can probably make it work reasonably well, so I'm opening up the project to the public. ***GOALS OF THE PROJECT*** Some things I'm going to stick to pretty closely. Here they are: + HBmonitor be one process that includes a webserver + Websockets are used for pushing data to the browser - no long-polling, etc. + Does not provide data that's easily misunderstood ***0x49 DE N0MJS*** Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Cortney T. Buffington, N0MJS This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA