OpenWrt 21.02.0 rc1 integrated bandwidth monitoring per client Install luci-wrtbwmon and wrtbwmon :Updated 04/25/2021

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Install luci-wrtbwmon and wrtbwmon on OpenWrt

Updated 12/10/2022

Update: 12/10/2022 Still working
Update: 4/25/2021 Changed download link's working on 21.02 rc1
Update: 3/12/2019 this seems to be broken in the 18.06.0 - .1 -.2 firmware

Update: This also works on 17.01.4  

I wrote this for myself mostly for future reference, I wanted to monitor in real time the traffic that was flowing thru my router.

 

 After connecting with PuTTY using SSH I used these commands. 

opkg update

curl -k -LO https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases/download/0.37_ipv6/wrtbwmon_0.37_ipv6_all.ipk

curl -k -LO https://github.com/Kiougar/luci-wrtbwmon/releases/download/v0.8.3/luci-wrtbwmon_v0.8.3_all.ipk

 opkg install wrtbwmon_0.37_ipv6_all.ipk

 

opkg install luci-wrtbwmon_v0.8.3_all.ipk

 /etc/init.d/wrtbwmon enable

/etc/init.d/wrtbwmon start

 

 

Not sure if it's necessary but due to errors in luci I installed this (Configuration and User file were not displayed properly)

 

This is necessary 

opkg install luci-compat

 

I had to reboot:

reboot

 

 

 

 Then in a web browser open LEDE, Default IP is 192.168.1.1

Navigate to Network > Usage

 

 

 

 And select Configuration then  Persist database (Install luci-compat if this looks different)

 

Press Save & Apply
 

 

 

 

  Then Navigate to Network >Usage > User File -- if you want to label names for unknown Hosts, Usually DHCP and DNS takes care of this. (Install luci-compat if this looks different)

 

 Press Submit when done

 

 If it works delete the downloaded packages as they are no longer needed

make sure no other ipk's are there that you may want to keep with ls:

 rm -r *.ipk  

 Note: You can also use the hosts file to name hosts

If you do not use DHCP and your computers have static IP's instead of showing MAC address you could write the computer names to LEDE's hosts file and put the computer names there, The pic at the top of the page show's the computer names because of this (##1). The other pic (##2) shows without.

I use ssh and nano so here are the commands:

opkg update && opkg install nano

 nano /etc/hosts

add the computer names in this format, Do not delete anything just add the computer names.

192.168.200.99 Computer1

192.168.200.101 Computer2

192.168.200.103 Computer3

Links:

https://github.com/Kiougar/luci-wrtbwmon/releases

https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon/releases

 

https://github.com/Kiougar/luci-wrtbwmon

https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon

Some of the pictures probably got screwed up because i don't think blogger has a cancel button