I recently decided to try to learn how to write python a little bit. I’m still not very good at it, however I did create something recently that I feel should be shared! Meraki local status pages can provide some very useful information for troubleshooting, however having to browse to ap.meraki.com/switch.meraki.com/wired.meraki.com is not always desirable, nor does it update quickly if you are walking around troubleshooting and connecting to different devices. So I figured hey, lets create a widget or skin for some common overlay tools out there (Ubersicht for Mac, and Rainmeter for Windows) and try and populate some useful information. So without further droning on, I want to introduce the tools I created!
Meraki Skin for Rainmeter (Windows)
This skin requires the use of Rainmeter for Windows. For those not familiar, Rainmeter is a free tool that allows you to do anything from display useful data about your computer, to writing entire user interfaces to perform just about any function.
My rainmeter skin combines a number of bits of data, from the wifi stats out of netsh, IP info from netsh, and a bunch of data points from the first MR, MS, and/or MX that you are connected behind. There is also a hard requirement for Python3 to be installed in your PATH. This is so rainmeter can execute the script associated without having to derive the correct path based on installation.
For more information please check out the github repo at: Meraki Rainmeter
Meraki Widget for Ubersicht (Mac)
This widget requires the use of Ubersicht as a widget overlay tool. For those not familiar, Ubersicht is extremely lightweight and has a number of really cool widgets you can install.
This widget has a hard requirement for python3 to be installed as well. One of the neat features of Uebersicht is I was able to color code some of the values for RSSI, Noise Floor, and if connected to an MR, the SNR from an AP perspective. These will change colors based on connectivity from green to yellow, to red. (Special thanks to Nathan Wiens @nwiens for helping me with the HTML)
To install please either browse to the Ubersicht widgets repo
Or to my GitHub Repo
As always, thanks for reading, and if you have any feedback please leave it in the comments section below. Thanks!
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