mathoudebine / mathoudebine/turing-smart-screen-python
Add uptime information (on linux)
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Description
I want to display the uptime, which is quite a common information to display on such devices.
I tried by myself, adding stuff in library/sensors/sensors.py and library/stats.py, but I failed miserably. That sounds quite easy to do if you know the code better than I do.
I couldn't find any pythonish way of getting the current uptime, but this code does the trick on linux:
from datetime import timedelta
with open('/proc/uptime', 'r') as f: uptime_s = float(f.readline().split()[0])
uptime_string = str(timedelta(seconds=uptime_s))
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Research direction
Start by reading library/sensors/sensors.py and library/stats.py to understand how existing system metrics are collected and displayed. Use Linux /proc/uptime as the issue describes, then verify that the resulting uptime information appears on the smart screen alongside the existing statistics.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, python
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100