Topic: bitcoind-ncurses: Terminal front-end for bitcoind - page 4. (Read 11335 times)

A few updates:

Lots of speed improvements and eliminating needless queries.
Better error handling if commands fail or connection fails.
Various bug fixes.
The block viewer now supports browsing through older blocks and arbitrary block height or hash.
The genesis transaction would fail as bitcoind does not index it.
Formatting changes to monitor mode (age of transactions).
Difficulty, nethash and mempool transactions added to monitor mode.
A peer viewer has been added - currently listed is sync node status, incoming/outgoing status, node IP (if available), received and sent data.

I wanted to thank users again for making suggestions and testing so far.

Thank you both.
virtualx, it may work with older Python versions, 2.7 is all I've tested.

Pushed a few updates since the original post.
A lot more is event driven now.
The transaction and block browsers have scrolling support (tested with 200KB transactions with hundreds of inputs/outputs) and should be _much_ smoother.
Only remaining obstacle is the main updating view (called every second or so).
I intend to set up and test over SSH at some point to see if there are issues with redrawing.

If anyone has feature requests I will be glad to look into them as time allows.
Next is to add support for querying an arbitrary block, prev/next block and so on.

Looks very cool, I will look into this today.

Edit: good to see it needs Python 2.7

Actually, the 'received ... ago' display is time since last received block (including verification time).
This is because at present it constantly (every 2 seconds or so) polls with getinfo.

If blockheight changes then it goes ahead and pushes a getblockhash/getblock combo to find timestamp and size.
My understanding is that there is no need to check getbestblockhash because the height should never reduce.

This fails for the first block on startup and just displays the time of first contact with bitcoind.

Very neat.  Perhaps to go with the bandwidth stats some mempool stats and a time since last received block?— for the latter we might need to adds something to the rpc, I don't think we expose what time we received a block.

Here are some screenshots of the various modes.

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Greetings,

I've been working on a Python front-end for bitcoind for the past few days.
The principal motivation was to give myself a reasonable way of monitoring my node without using CLI.

I thought it might be useful to others so I've made it available on GitHub: https://github.com/azeteki/bitcoind-ncurses

As it's been hacked together rapidly it is fairly limited on features and 'just about works' at present.
Best to treat it as a proof of concept for now, though it is perfectly usable for watching only.

As always, make sure you audit before running (I've tried to seperate out potentially vulnerable stuff like RPC calls as much as possible).

Regards,
Atelopus Zeteki
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