Show tailscale devices and their status #5
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main.py
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| async def get_tailscale_state(self): | |||
| result = not subprocess.call(["tailscale", "status"], timeout=10) | |||
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| async def get_tailscale_devices(self): | |||
| result = subprocess.getoutput("tailscale status | awk -v name=2 -v status=5 -v status2=6 -v status3=7 '{print $name,$status,$status2,$status3}'") | |||
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Couple ideas to make this more structured, and so easier to interpret by the UI:
- Use
tailscale status --json, parse it on Python: This would allow us to use an intermediary data structure to store devices data - Use https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-tailscale: You get much richer interaction with Tailscale which opens the door for many more features, but adds a new dependency (and the issues that come along: updating, testing, etc) and complicates setup (we'll need to come up with a way for users to provide their Tailscale API key)
src/index.tsx
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| <PanelSectionRow> | ||
| <div>Tailscale Devices</div> | ||
| {tailscaleDevices} |
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Happy to take others' guidance here, didn't find much in https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-plugin-database/tree/main/plugins that showcases complex text layouts (eg. a table?) to better show this data
Will take a look, at a cursory glance it seems like a good feature addon, might take me a few weeks to get to this since I work on this as a hobby. EDIT: The screenshot wasn't visible until I dropped this comment, and you are right the UI for the status would definitely require polish |
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@gustakasn0v I will be closing this PR soon, but will be mentioning this as the reason for this feature addon. I've pushed a version which has the capability to view device names and their status, I am thinking of using Modals and lists to replace the current version, but for now, HTML tables would have to do. I'll wait a few days for your response in case you have something to add, else I will raise a PR to plugin DB and close this one. |
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Sounds good, thanks for building the feature! I didn't have time to fully implement the UI myself, and this quick-and-dirty PR helped me get my setup working anyway, so looking forward to the new version of the plugin! |
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I was debugging my Steam Deck not establishing a direct connection with my home router. It's rather cumbersome to switch to desktop mode to run
tailscale statuson a terminal, especially if you don't have mouse and keyboard. So this PR allows users to see the status of their tailscale network directly from the Decky Loader.Changes
tailscale statusif the tailscale network is upI appreciate the UI is most likely not ready for publishing to the Decky store; I mostly did this to help myself while debugging my network, but happy to take feedback and polish this until it's ready for publishing (if we agree this is a worthwhile feature)
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