Upgrade! For ARM and AARCH-based routers, we've got some great news: vnStat-on-Merlin Release 2 (R2) is now available. This version is based on vnStat 2.7, recently included as an Entware package.
For supported routers, in addition to updating the underlying engine of vnStat, Jack Yaz has worked some of his
charting magic, building on the existing charts which are generated by vnStati.
Key changes include:
- Update to vnStat version 2.7
- Data usage is reported in megabytes (base-1000), so no correction is necessary to monitor against ISP bandwidth usage (
see this) - and the previous data usage is re-calculated to base-1000
- Minor changes in the built-in charts, including a "shadow" to the daily and monthly usage with projected usage (previously found in the CLI reporting)
- Interactive @JackYaz charts!
- Data usage, by minutes, hours and days - note: new collection periods will take some time to populate
- Data use comparisons (current week vs previous week, by day of week)
- Data use trends (current week, previous week, two weeks prior) -
- Minor changes to the text-based daily reports. These now focus on the most recent periods (last day, previous week, recent 6 months) and include yearly use.
- Choice to save data to USB rather than JFFS
A few other notes:
- The vnStat 2.x package
does not exist for MIPS, so these routers will be kept on the R1 "Legacy" branch, with existing functionality but without the interactive charts.
- The previous "weekly" CLI metric was removed from v 2.6 and is not available in R2; the new interactive charts provide weekly use comparisons
- If updated via the UI, a hard refresh of the page may be required (CTRL+R; CTRL+F5; CMD+SHFT+R; etc)
- You may have to wait through a refresh period or two (5-10 mins) before the new JY charts show information
A significant amount of effort and testing went into this release. As always my gratitude to @JackYaz, who has been a fantastic partner in the development of both R1 and R2.