This program runs a speedtest check every hour and graphs the results. The back-end is written in Laravel and the front-end uses React. It uses the speedtest-cli package to get the data and uses Chart.js to plot the results.

Installation

Installing Dependencies

This program has some dependencies, to install them you need to run the following:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt [ONDREJ 7.4]
sudo apt install php7.4 composer python3 python3-pip
sudo pip install speedtest-cli

Then, download the code by running:

git clone https://github.com/henrywhitaker3/Speedtest-Tracker.git

Install the composer and npm dependencies:

composer install
npm install && npm run production

Scheduling Setup

To get speed test results every hour, you need to add a cronjob, run sudo crontab -e and add an entry with the following:

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Queue Setup

sudo apt install supervisor

sudo vim /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf

Add the following, updating the command and user values:

[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /path/to/project/artisan queue:work
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=<user>
numprocs=8
redirect_stderr=true

Then run:

sudo supervisorctl reread
sudo supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl restart all