tmux wifi status

Displays wifi status with spark or ascii on status bar.

Installation

Optional requirements

spark for displaying the graph - adapted from nhhagen/wifi

Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/amphitheater/tmux-wifi ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-wifi

Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf:

set -g @plugin `tmux-plugins/tmux-wifi'

Hit prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it.

Manual installation

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/amphitheater/tmux-wifi ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-wifi

Add this line to the bottom of .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-wifi/wifi.tmux

Reload TMUX environment:

# type this in terminal
$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Usage

Format strings available:

• #{wifi_graph} - will show connection quality represented by the middle bar of spark 0 100 (for example, a connection quality of 60 will get ▁▅█ from spark and display just ▅)
• #{wifi_ssid} - will show the ssid of the active wifi connection
• #{wifi_percentage} - will show wifi percentage
• #{wifi_ascii} - will display three characters (depending on connection quality of high, medium, low).
  • #{wifi_ascii_char} Sets the asci character - default is +++ (the format is three characters until I learn bash, as the script just prints a substring)
• The following options control the foreground and background of low, medium, and high wifi connection quality
  • #{wifi_low_fg_color}
  • #{wifi_medium_fg_color}
  • #{wifi_high_fg_color}
  • #{wifi_low_bg_color}
  • #{wifi_medium_bg_color}
  • #{wifi_high_bg_color}

~/.tmux.conf

set -g status-right "#{wifi_ssid}#{wifi_fg_color] [#{wifi_percentage}%] #{wifi_graph}"

Personally, in the interest of having a cleaner .tmux.conf, I've merged settings for all plugins in a settings file: ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-settings.conf and sourced from ~/.tmux.conf with the line source-file ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-settings.conf, source-file ~/.tmux/keybindings.conf, etc.

~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-settings.conf

set -g @wifi_low_fg_color "#[fg=#ff0000]"
set -g @wifi_medium_fg_color "#[fg=#ffff00]"
set -g @wifi_high_fg_color "#[fg=#00ff00]"

set -g @wifi_low_bg_color "#[bg=#000000]"
set -g @wifi_medium_bg_color "#[bg=#000000]"
set -g @wifi_high_bg_color "#[bg=#000000]"

set -g @cpu_low_bg_color "#[fg=#ff0000]"
[...]

Examples:

Strong connection quality with graph and ascii: