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English Forums => 26.1, 26,4 Series => Topic started by: dirtyfreebooter on March 19, 2026, 01:16:54 AM

Title: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: dirtyfreebooter on March 19, 2026, 01:16:54 AM
x-posting with main forum to get user feedback: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=51327.0

looking for user feedback on how one would expect to use the vnstat widget? is having that interface html dropdowns useful? or should it be a widget preference that you select once and it always shows the same interface/period selected?

any other ideas?

(https://i.imgur.com/gJ8xYyw.png)
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: franco on March 19, 2026, 11:57:39 AM
IMO looks good. Want to raise a PR? It's often easier to ship to collect feedback.


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: dirtyfreebooter on April 15, 2026, 05:03:15 AM

PR: https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/5336
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: Seimus on April 15, 2026, 01:19:43 PM
Beautiful thanks for making the showcase video!

Regards
S.
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: dirtyfreebooter on July 02, 2026, 10:44:25 PM
this finally landed in 26.1.11
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: caplam on July 03, 2026, 01:29:18 PM
i discover now this plugin. It looks good. Thank you for that.
i could suggest several things:
- when you select which interfaces to monitor you have the choice within the different names of the interfaces and when it's displayed on the dashboard you have the name of the underlying device. i would prefer to have the interface name.
- perhaps a layout with where you can select 2 or more interfaces to display could be a plus. But i guess it there will troubles to display that correctly. Or maybe spawn that to a widget per interface.
Anyway that's a very convenient plugin.
Title: Re: vnstat dashboard widget
Post by: dirtyfreebooter on July 06, 2026, 09:42:38 PM
Quote from: caplam on July 03, 2026, 01:29:18 PM- when you select which interfaces to monitor you have the choice within the different names of the interfaces and when it's displayed on the dashboard you have the name of the underlying device. i would prefer to have the interface name.

yea, that makes sense, i'll put up a PR to use the OPNsense interface name instead of the underlying FreeBSD device name.

Quote from: caplam on July 03, 2026, 01:29:18 PM- perhaps a layout with where you can select 2 or more interfaces to display could be a plus. But i guess it there will troubles to display that correctly. Or maybe spawn that to a widget per interface.

i'll probably skip this due to the complexity and trying to keep things simple