In the same vein, the entire Piwik Reporting API is available to you when using Rainmeter. These could be easily added by editing the skin’s configuration within Rainmeter and emulating what I’ve done to expand the information displayed in the skin. One final feature is that if you clicked the title of the Piwik Skin, it’ll launch the URL of your Piwik installation.Īlso available within the Piwik skin, but not currently being output, are the remaining statistics from the Visits Summary Module (below). At a configurable interval, it will query the Piwik API and display the following information from the current day’s traffic: It’s configured to work with your Piwik installation’s API. This Piwik skin for Rainmeter is pretty simple. By default, I have it configured to point at Piwik’s Demo Site so anyone can see it in action right off the bat.
I wanted to share it, so I spent some time making it more generic and documenting how other Piwik Users can put it to work for themselves.
However, instead of using a CSV format I used an XML format and then used a regular expression on what was returned to get the pieces of data that I was most interested in: number of visits, number of actions, average actions per visit, and the average time on site. Ultimately what I wound up doing was using the WebParser plug-in (bundled with Rainmeter) to hit the Piwik API and to pull back the same data I use in my Android Piwik notification.
Not being especially creative from a visual standpoint, I emulated the design of the default illustro skins which are included with Rainmeter that were created by poiru. I started doing a bit of “research” into making my own skin to capture and display that same information. It seemed like the ones I thought were the most interesting all came from a program called Rainmeter, which I downloaded and put a popular set of skins on my own desktop.Īfter about a month or so of using Rainmeter I blurted out (to nobody in particular) that it’d sure be nice if it had the information that my Android Piwik notification displays on my phone also on my desktop in a Rainmeter skin. I got curious and dug into those to try and understand where they came from.
From time to time I wind up on /r/battlestations out on and occasionally I’d see a desktop where the owner had nifty little gadgets on their desktop with system information like CPU usage, memory utilization, or hard drive capacity on them. There’s quite a bit of desktop space that frequently winds up unused, neglected, and potentially feeling unloved. Shortly after reaching 5120x1440 worth of resolution between my dual monitors, I started searching for uses for all that space.
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