RPi-Monitor: Version 1.1 is available

Note: A new version of RPi-Monitor is available: Version 1.2.
All the details about the latest version of Rpi-Monitor are in RPi-Monitor overview

The version 1.1 of RPi-Monitor is out.

If you don't know yet what RPI-Monitor is, have a look to my previous post.

What's new?
This version is mainly a bug fix version brings few additional feature:

• Bugs fixes and little improvement in web interface.
• Add friends to link RPi-Monitor running on different machine together.
• Improve package installation scripts.

Installation
You can download it from the official repository in Github:
https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor-deb/tree/master/packages

Note: If you want to use wget, use this link:
https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor-deb/blob/master/packages/rpimonitor_1.1-1_all.deb?raw=true.

Install the dependencies by executing the following command:
    sudo apt-get install librrds-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl

Installation or upgrade can be done with the command:
    sudo dpkg -i rpimonitor_1.1-1_all.deb


Usage
Browse your http://RPiIpAddress:8888/.


About RPi-Monitor friends
This version of RPi-Monitor introduce the notion of friends. Friends are other RPi-Monitor running on other machines which will be accessible from a drop down menu available on the top right.

Each friend will be configured to be linked to each other. This configuration is done inside rpimonitord.conf using a specific comment starting with the key #> as in the example bellow:

# Comment starting by #> are specific comments. These comments
# will be processed by rpimonitord and integrated into the json
# sent to the server in the form of an array having the name
# specified into the section. The data are not processed by
# rpimonitord. The server will parse and use them.
#
#>[friends]
#>"192.168.0.123:8888=Raspberry Pi"
#>"192.168.0.2:8888=Shuttle"
#>"127.0.0.1:8888=Laptop"
#


The configuration start by the definition of the section friends:

#>[friends]

Then each friend is defined by its url and its display name using the format:

#> "url=name"

Once the configuration is done, the process rpimonitord should be restarted. It is done with the command:

sudo /etc/init.d/rpimonitor restart

You will have to repeat the operation on each friend and then, refresh the pages displayed into you browser to see the new menu appearing.