Added secondary check for potential changes in public IP and a small bug fix arising from reliance on util.location

Added a second check for indications of possible change of public IP address since netifaces does not properly handle all Linux routing tables (ref: http://linux-ip.net/html/routing-tables.html) which can lead to changes being missed if only looking at defauilt route. Consequently an additional check for changes to the network interface names/numbers was added to further help in identifying potentially notable changes. Note that netifaces is no longer being maintained so the underlying issue with its handling of gateways is unlikely to be resolved (https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces). An alternative would be to use direct calls to the OS like 'ip route list table all' (note the difference to 'ip route list all') but this might lead to unpredicatble results between distributions/flavours so probably best to stick with a library for now. all') but this might lead to unpredicatble results between distributions/flavours so probably best to stick with a library for now.

Introduced time.sleep(2) following calls to util.location.reset() since it can take util.location a while to update following a call to .reset() which can cause calls to .location_info() to return unpredicatable/unuseful results.

bumblebee_status/modules/contrib/publicip.py

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Displays information about the public IP address associated with the default rou
     * City Name
     * Geographic Coordinates
 
-Left mouse click on the widget forces immediate update
+Left mouse click on the widget forces immediate update.
-Any change to the default route will cause the widget to update
+Any change to the default route will cause the widget to update.
 
 Requirements:
     * netifaces
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Examples:
     * bumblebee-status -m publicip -p publicip.format="{ip} which is in {city_name}"
     * bumblebee-status -m publicip -p publicip.format="Your packets are right here: {coordinates}"
 
-contributed by `tfwiii <https://github.com/tfwiii>`_ - many thanks!
+contributed by `tfwiii <https://github.com/tfwiii>` - many thanks!
 """
 
 import re
@@ -57,9 +57,15 @@ class Module(core.module.Module):
         self.__monitor.start()
 
     def monitor(self):
-        current_default_route = None
         default_route = None
+        interfaces = None
+        # Initially set to True to force an info update on first pass
+        information_changed = True
+
+        self.update()
+
         while threading.main_thread().is_alive():
+            # Look for any changes in the netifaces default route information
             try:
                 current_default_route = netifaces.gateways()["default"][2]
             except:
@@ -67,11 +73,32 @@ class Module(core.module.Module):
                 current_default_route = None
             if current_default_route != default_route:
                 default_route = current_default_route
+                information_changed = True
+
+            # netifaces does not check ALL routing tables which might lead to false negatives
+            # (ref: http://linux-ip.net/html/routing-tables.html) so additionally... look for
+            # any changes in the netifaces interfaces information which might also be an inticator
+            # of a change of route/external IP
+            if not information_changed: # Only check if no routing table change found
+                try:
+                    current_interfaces = netifaces.interfaces()
+                except:
+                    # error reading interfaces information -> assume none exists
+                    current_interfaces = None
+                if current_interfaces != interfaces:
+                    interfaces = current_interfaces
+                    information_changed = True
+
+            # Update either routing or interface information has changed
+            if information_changed:
+                information_changed = False
                 self.update()
+
+            # Throttle the calls to netifaces
             time.sleep(1)
 
     def publicip(self, widget):
-        if widget.get("public_ip") == None:
+        if widget.get("public_ip") is None:
             return "n/a"
         return self._format.format(
             ip=widget.get("public_ip", "-"),
@@ -83,12 +110,17 @@ class Module(core.module.Module):
 
     def __click_update(self, event):
         util.location.reset()
+        # pause to allow reset time to complete
+        time.sleep(2)
 
     def update(self):
         widget = self.widget()
 
         try:
             util.location.reset()
+            # pause to allow reset time to complete
+            time.sleep(2)
+
             # Fetch fresh location information
             __info = util.location.location_info()
 
@@ -106,11 +138,12 @@ class Module(core.module.Module):
 
             # Update widget values
             core.event.trigger("update", [widget.module.id], redraw_only=True)
-        except:
+        except Exception as ex:
             widget.set("public_ip", None)
+            print(ex)
 
     def state(self, widget):
         return widget.get("state", None)
 
 
-# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4