mercanet

1. Description

This is a menu bar app for Mac OS. Monitor the download and upload speeds in KB/s, MB/s, GB/s.

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2. How to run the app

2.a. If you trust the app developer

• Download the latest zip version from the latest release
• Accept the Chrome warning about the fact the file is dangerous
• Unzip
• Right click (click with 2 fingers) on the mercanet.app file
• On the menu, click Open
• On the alert dialog “mercanet.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. click Ok
• Enjoy the app on the Mac Menu bar

2.b. If you do not trust the app developer

• Read the code and the script
• Be sure to have xcode installed and xcodebuild available on your terminal
• Once you are confident, copy and paste the following lines in a mac terminal

git clone https://github.com/Mercandj/mercanet.git # Get the sources
pushd mercanet # Change directory to mercanet
chmod 755 ./run.sh # Grant permission to the script
./run.sh # Run the script to compile and open the .app file
popd # Go back to original folder

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3. How to make a new release of this repository

• Go to xcode and select the xcodeproj
• Select the target mercanet[readme.md][publish.sh](publish.sh)(readme.md[publish.sh](publish.sh))
• Bump version and build
• Bump this readme label
• Commit [Version] Bump to X.YY.ZZ
• Run ./publish.sh
• Make a github release with the ./build/mercanet.zip

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4. Thanks to

• This is a recompilation of this app Up&Down version 1.1.
  • Change from swift 3.0 to 5.0
  • Increase the refresh rate from 2s to 0.5s
  • Remove the auto-restart feature
• This app is based on the command line tool nettop.