https://github.com/attheodo/Pingu

Pingu - 🐧 A nifty menubar app that... pings
https://github.com/attheodo/Pingu

macos menubar-app ping

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Pingu - 🐧 A nifty menubar app that... pings

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/attheodo/Pingu
• Owner: attheodo
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-04-04T16:49:06.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-05T13:39:27.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T09:05:26.057Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: macos, menubar-app, ping
• Language: Swift
• Homepage:
• Size: 265 KB
• Stars: 40
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## Pingu

🐧 A nifty menubar app that... pings

[Download latest release](https://github.com/attheodo/Pingu/releases/download/v1.0.0/Pingu.1.0.0.dmg)

![alt text](misc/screenshot.jpg "Screenshot")

### Features

✅ Utilizes `BSD Ping` of your macOS system under the hood

🌒 Supports light and dark mode

🎯 Easily switch between your last 5 hosts (LIFO)

🕐 Custom interval for each ping targer (500ms, 1s, 5s, 30s and 1m)

🚀 Launch at login for the lazy ones

### Room for improvement

- Assumes `BSD ping` utility resides at `/sbin/ping` (default path for macOS). If it's not there, well, it won't work. In fact it might crash, I didn't check.

- Parsing `BSD ping`'s output is to say the least... naive. Regex would be a good next improvement if not rolling an entirely homebrew ICMP infra.

- Needs an auto-update mechanism. [Sparkle](https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle) has been evaluated as good candidate.

### Contributing & Feedback

- Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open a PR.

- For feedback, bug reports or showing love, please open an issue.