Raspberry Pi GUI

[NovaZephyrus]

hello im newbie in programming

i have a project to make GUI on raspberry pi that has a button (on screen) that can run speedtest cli, but i dont know how to make it.
any tutorial how to make it?

thankyou

[jamesh]

I'd be inclined to use Python and tkinter. Look for tutorials on how to use those.

[topguy]

Before we help you with your homework project it would be nice to know which programming language you have some experience in or have chosen to use.

Edit:
James's suggestion is good if you have not made any choice.
But your task could probably be completed with just using shell-scriptin and the "xdialog" utility also.

[DirkS]

or Python + guizero
https://lawsie.github.io/guizero/

[neilgl]

Maybe use node-red?
Or install PHP and apache2 on the pi, create a web page on the pi and have a button on the page that uses PHP to run the speed test.

[Botspot]

Easiest way hands-down: YAD.
Install with:

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sudo apt install -y yad

And then to make a simple dialog with a button to run speedtest-cli, run this:

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yad --button=gtk-cancel:1 --button="Run a speedtest":'lxterminal -e speedtest-cli' --center

Screenshot:

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Edit: YAD is similar to Zenity, but much better in every way. You can fine-tune it to a higher degree, like button icons, custom images, and much more complex forms. By far the best YAD tutorial/doc I've found is this one.

[jbudd]

I've not come across YAD, looks interesting.

For what it's worth, here's a picture of a Node-Red program to do it, with it's output on a web page
(If you like it, you have to work out your own javascript code to extract the data!)

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