I setup a golang script to fetch the DD-WRT bandwidth usage for the previous 2 months, as well as the last 30 days(rolling).
Using conky then i can display it on my desktop.
My ISP (digiweb), don’t provide any means to check your bandwidth.
Picture at end of post 🙂

Golang DD-WRT script

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
    "net/http"
    "crypto/tls"
    "io/ioutil"
    "regexp"
    "time"
)

// You set these
var _ddwrt_ip = "10.1.1.1"
var _ddwrt_ssl = true
var _ddwrt_port = 443
var _ddwrt_user = "root"
var _ddwrt_pass = "password"

// don't set these
var _ddwrt_this_month = ""
var _ddwrt_last_month = ""

func printmonth(monthyear string) {
    tr := &http.Transport {
        TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config { InsecureSkipVerify: true },
    }

    client := &http.Client { Transport: tr }

    proto := "http"
    if _ddwrt_ssl == true {
      proto = "https"
    }

    req, err := http.NewRequest( "GET", proto + "://" + _ddwrt_ip + ":" + strconv.Itoa( _ddwrt_port ) + "/ttgraph.cgi?" + monthyear, nil )
    req.SetBasicAuth( _ddwrt_user, _ddwrt_pass )

    resp, err := client.Do( req )
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf( "Error : %s", err)
    }

    if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
        fmt.Printf( "Error code: %s", strconv.Itoa( resp.StatusCode ) )
    }

    bodyBytes, err2 := ioutil.ReadAll( resp.Body )
    if err2 != nil {
        fmt.Printf( "Error : %s", err2 )
    }
    
    if len( _ddwrt_this_month ) == 0 {
        _ddwrt_this_month = string( bodyBytes )
    } else {
        _ddwrt_last_month = string( bodyBytes )
    }

    re := regexp.MustCompile( "(?s)
  • (.*?)
  • " ) matches := re.FindAllString( string( bodyBytes ), -1 ) rein := regexp.MustCompile( "(?s)Incoming: ([0-9]+)" ) reinmatches := rein.FindStringSubmatch( matches[0] ) reout := regexp.MustCompile( "(?s)Outgoing: ([0-9]+)" ) reoutmatches := reout.FindStringSubmatch( matches[0] ) fmt.Printf( "${goto 20}Down: %s ${goto 200}Up: %s\n", reinmatches[1], reoutmatches[1] ) } func parse30days() { var all = _ddwrt_last_month + _ddwrt_this_month re := regexp.MustCompile( "(?s)onmouseover=\"Show(.*?)onmouseout" ) matches := re.FindAllString( all, -1 ) var down int64 var up int64 var total int64 var days30 = 30 for i := len( matches )-1; i >= 0; i-- { reinout := regexp.MustCompile( "(?s)Incoming: ([0-9]+) MB / Outgoing: ([0-9]+) MB" ) inout := reinout.FindStringSubmatch( matches[i] ) r, _ := strconv.ParseInt( inout[1], 10, 64 ) if r == 0 { continue; } down = down + r t, _ := strconv.ParseInt( inout[2], 10, 64 ) up = up + t days30-- if days30 == 0 { break; } } total = down + up fmt.Printf( "\n${goto 20}Total 30 days:${goto 200}%d GB\n", total / 1024 ) } func main() { now := time.Now() monthyear := now.Format("01-2006") printmonth(monthyear) monthyear = now.AddDate(0,-1,0).Format("01-2006") printmonth(monthyear) parse30days() }

    Conky script Integration

    conky.config = {
        alignment = 'top_right',
        background = true,
        border_width = 1,
        cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    	default_color = 'white',
        default_outline_color = 'white',
        default_shade_color = 'white',
        draw_borders = false,
        draw_graph_borders = true,
        draw_outline = false,
        draw_shades = false,
        use_xft = true,
        font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
        gap_x = 50,
        gap_y = 50,
        double_buffer = true,
        minimum_height = 5,
    	minimum_width = 5,
        net_avg_samples = 2,
        no_buffers = true,
        out_to_console = false,
        out_to_stderr = false,
        extra_newline = false,
        own_window = true,
        own_window_class = 'Conky',
        own_window_type = 'desktop',
        own_window_transparent = true,
        stippled_borders = 0,
        update_interval = 3.0,
        uppercase = false,
        use_spacer = 'none',
        show_graph_scale = false,
        show_graph_range = false
    }
    
    conky.text = [[
    $sysname $kernel on $machine
    ${hr 2}
    
    ${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
    ${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
    ${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
    ${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
    ${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
    ${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
    ${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
    
    
    ${color}File Systems
    ${hr 2}
    
    /${goto 80}$color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${goto 250}${fs_bar 6 /}
    /home${goto 80}$color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /home} ${goto 250}${fs_bar 6 /home}
     
    ${color}Networking
    ${hr 2}
    
    ${goto 20}Up:$color ${upspeed wlp3s0} ${goto 200}${color grey}Down:$color ${downspeed wlp3s0}
    ${goto 20}${upspeedgraph wlp3s0 26,140 FFFFFF FFFFFF}${goto 200}${downspeedgraph wlp3s0 26,140 FFFFFF FFFFFF}
    ${execpi 3600 /usr/bin/go run /home/dave/.conky/ddwrt-bandwidth.go}
    
    ${color}Processes
    ${hr 2}
    
    Name                PID   CPU%   MEM%
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 6} ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 7} ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 8} ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8} ${top mem 8}
    ${color lightgrey} ${top name 9} ${top pid 9} ${top cpu 9} ${top mem 9}
    
    ]]
    

    Enjoy
    rolling