The netifyd collector cron job now persists across reboots:
- Add collector_enabled option to UCI config (secubox-netifyd.sink)
- Create init script (secubox-netifyd-collector) to manage cron job
- Update netifyd-collector-setup with enable/disable/status commands
- Apply collector settings on first boot via uci-defaults
Usage:
netifyd-collector-setup unix /tmp/netifyd-flows.json # Enable
netifyd-collector-setup disable # Disable
netifyd-collector-setup status # Show status
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- Changed form sections from type 'secubox' to match actual UCI config
- General/Dashboard/Module/Notification sections now use type 'core'
- Alert Thresholds section now uses type 'diagnostics'
- Security Settings section now uses type 'security'
- Advanced Settings section uses type 'core'
- Fixes "This section contains no values yet" errors
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Enhanced all NetIfyd LuCI views with improved UX, live status, and better data visualization following modern dashboard patterns.
## Flows View (flows.js) - Complete Rewrite:
- Redesigned from individual flow tracking to aggregated flow analytics
- Added 4 gradient metric cards: Total, Active, Expired, Purged flows
- New interface activity table showing TCP/UDP/ICMP packets per interface
- Protocol distribution section with visual progress bars and percentages
- Pause/Resume button for real-time updates
- Information panel explaining flow data limitations
- 3-second refresh interval for real-time monitoring
## Applications View (applications.js) - Enhanced:
- Added live service status badge (green "Live" / red "Offline")
- Implemented search filter for application names
- Reduced refresh interval from 10s to 5s for faster updates
- Improved header layout with better spacing
- Added visual feedback with loading states
- Color-coded application indicators with percentage bars
## Devices View (devices.js) - Enhanced:
- Added live service status badge matching applications view
- Implemented search filter for IP addresses and MAC addresses
- Reduced refresh interval from 10s to 5s
- Enhanced header with modern layout
- Better device list presentation with last-seen timestamps
- Traffic distribution visualization with upload/download bars
## Settings View (settings.js) - Enhanced:
- Added comprehensive configuration guide section
- Included recommended configuration best practices
- Added performance considerations and warnings
- Flow Export explanation for advanced users
- Links to external documentation (Netify.ai)
- Visual improvements to service status banner
- Better organized help information with icons
## Technical Improvements:
- All views handle empty data gracefully with informative messages
- Consistent modern UI design across all views
- Better error handling and user feedback
- Improved polling efficiency with proper container creation
- Responsive layouts that work on mobile devices
## Testing:
- Deployed and tested on OpenWrt 23.05 with NetIfyd 5.2.1
- Verified RPC backend compatibility
- Confirmed graceful degradation when flow export disabled
- Validated live status indicators and refresh mechanisms
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Issue Identified:
- Netifyd 5.2.1 was crashing with JSON assertion error on startup
- Error: "Assertion failed: m_it.object_iterator != m_object->m_data.m_value.object->end()"
- Root cause: Legacy categories.json format incompatible with netifyd 5.2.1+
The Fix:
- Removed auto-creation of netify-categories.json from UCI defaults
- Let netifyd manage this file itself or operate without it
- Both approaches work correctly with netifyd 5.2.1
Technical Details:
The UCI defaults script was creating categories.json in v1.0 format:
```json
{
"version": "1.0",
"categories": []
}
```
This format is detected as "legacy" by netifyd 5.2.1, which then attempts
to parse it with newer code expecting a different structure. When accessing
JSON object iterators, the assertion fails because expected keys don't exist.
Solution: Don't create the file. Netifyd works perfectly without it and will
create its own if needed in the correct format for its version.
Verified Working:
- Netifyd now starts successfully
- 22 active flows captured on br-lan and br-wan
- Both interfaces online with 0% packet drops
- CPU utilization: 0.1%
- Memory: 14.5 MB
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Network Intelligence Dashboard Enhancements:
- Add detailed protocol breakdown (TCP/UDP/ICMP) with visual bars
- Display flow metrics (active, expired, purged)
- Show CPU and memory usage for netifyd process
- Add IP bytes vs wire bytes differentiation
- Enhanced stat cards with subtitles and better formatting
RPC Backend Improvements:
- Add tcp_packets, udp_packets, icmp_packets metrics
- Add ip_bytes (payload without ethernet overhead)
- Add flows_active, flows_expired, flows_purged counters
- Add cpu_usage and memory_kb from netifyd status
- Calculate CPU total from user + system time
Directory Structure Fix:
- Create /etc/netify.d/plugins.d on package install
- Create /etc/netify.d/address-groups.d
- Generate minimal netify-categories.json to prevent errors
- Auto-initialize UCI config for secubox-netifyd
- Auto-restart netifyd after directory creation
UCI Configuration:
- Settings: auto_refresh, socket configuration
- Analytics: limits for top apps/protocols/devices
- Data retention configuration
Issue Resolved:
- Netifyd was running but showing 0 flows due to missing directories
- Service now properly captures and analyzes network traffic
- All metrics displaying correctly in dashboard
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Netifyd crée nativement /var/run/netifyd/status.json avec toutes
les stats nécessaires. Le collecteur custom n'est plus nécessaire.
Supprimé:
- /usr/sbin/netifyd-collector
- /etc/cron.d/netifyd-collector
- Installation dans Makefile
Le backend RPC lit maintenant directement le fichier natif de netifyd.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added netifyd-collector daemon to aggregate real-time statistics from
netifyd and populate the dashboard with actual data.
New Features:
- Added /usr/sbin/netifyd-collector script
- Queries netifyd socket for flow data
- Aggregates devices, applications, protocols
- Writes /var/run/netifyd/status.json
- Runs every minute via cron
- Added /etc/cron.d/netifyd-collector cron job
- Added socat dependency for socket communication
Changes:
- Bumped version to 1.0.2
- Updated Makefile to install collector and cron job
- Fixed dashboard empty metrics issue:
* Unique Devices will now show count
* Applications will now show count
* Total Traffic will now show bytes
This fixes the "0" values issue in dashboard Network Statistics.
Dashboard will now show real metrics after 1 minute of netifyd running.
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