Question xml output hour about vnstat

[vergoh]

Few comments to begin with

• --exportdb isn't needed when --xml is given
• recent versions have --json to output json format directly
• 1.11 is a rather old version, but it doesn't have --exportdb so which version are you actually using?
• you mixed traffic.months.month with traffic.hours.hour in your question?

The id of hourly data does indeed follow the current hour unlike with daily and monthly data. Depending on the update method being used, doing a huge download at 1700 o'clock before the update may cause the download to be added to the id 16 instead of id 17. It depends whether an update for id 17 has already been done before the download.

[Hellowlol]

Thanks for your reply.

I'm sorry for mixing the questions but your answered the correct question.

Currently I'm using 1.11, but it's a part of a larger project so the commands depends on what version the user has. The --xml is there is for simplicity (for the same reason is --json not used) https://github.com/Hellowlol/HTPC-Manager/blob/master2/modules/vnstat.py

So say current time is 1700 would id 18, 19 etc usage always be 0 or would it belong to the previous day?

[vergoh]

If current time is 1700 then id is 17 (think of date +%H) assuming the database has been updated within the current hour. Otherwise id 17 points to the previous day if vnStat has been running for the last 24 hours, if not then id 17 will contain rx 0 and tx 0. Use the date structure from within each hour to check if the data is from the current day or the previous.

[Hellowlol]

Thanks for confirming!