Add uptime information (on linux)

[orzel]

I want to display the uptime, which is quite a common information to display on such devices. I tried by myself, adding stuff in library/sensors/sensors.py and library/stats.py, but I failed miserably. That sounds quite easy to do if you know the code better than I do.

I couldn't find any pythonish way of getting the current uptime, but this code does the trick on linux:

from datetime import timedelta
with open('/proc/uptime', 'r') as f: uptime_s = float(f.readline().split()[0])
uptime_string = str(timedelta(seconds=uptime_s))

[NurNano]

I found an other solution. You need the pip3 install uptime dependency. Then u just can cast:

from uptime import uptime
import time
uptime()

It will give u the uptime in seconds. Then u can change the code to

from uptime import uptime
import datetime

sec = uptime()
convert = str(datetime.timedelta(seconds = sec))
convert = convert.split(".")[0]  # entferne Millisekunden
print(convert)

and it will give you a output like "49 days, 16:47:16".

Would be happy if someone could build this in. I've testet it on Windows and Debian with Python 3.11.