The Motrix

Unfortunately, no one can be told what Monero is. You'll have to see it for yourself.

Watch real-value exchanges just like our ancestors did - in Matrix terminals.

About

This is a terminal (ncurses) visualizer for the monero daemon. Data is pushed in real-time from the daemon, then displayed in the matrix "motif" (falling text) using z85 encoding. The information displayed depends on the current state of the local monero daemon.

When the monero daemon is synchronizing with the blockchain, the falling text background contains recently processed block hashes. The foreground is a progress meter with useless SimCity 3000 loading messages.

When the monero daemon is synchronized, the falling text contains transactions currently in the mempool with nothing in the foreground. When a new block arrives, the screen pauses to display information about the latest block, then unfreezes to continue the mempool display.

This also serves as example application for developers interested in using ZeroMQ Pub/Sub to get information quickly from the daemon without polling.

License

See LICENSE.

Building

A C++11 compiler, and development libraries for ncurses and ZeroMQ 4.0+ are required. They should be available in any package manager.

from tarball:

cd motrix-0.1.1
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -DNDEBUG" ./configure && make

from git repo:

cd motrix
autoreconf -i
mkdir build && cd build
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -DNDEBUG" ../configure && make

Running

A development build of the monero daemon is needed. The daemon should be started with an additional flag: --zmq-pub tcp://127.0.0.1:5000 (or any port of your choice). Unix IPC is also supported: --zmq-pub ipc:///home/monero, which has added security benefits.

The motrix executable can then be started:

./motrix ipc:///home/monero tcp://127.0.0.1:18082

The daemon does not yet support Unix IPC for ZeroMQ RPC. Testnet RPC port defaults to 28082 instead of 18081

Docker

A Dockerfile has been provided for those who may run their nodes or tools using Docker containers. Be sure to utilize host networking so that you can reach remote nodes.

docker build -t motrix .
docker run --rm -it --net=host motrix tcp://127.0.0.1:18081 tcp://127.0.0.1:18082 auto

Color Scheme

Motrix will auto-detect the number of colors available on your terminal. If the terminal supports 256+ colors, then it defaults to Monero logo colors for the text. Otherwise it falls back to green (the "matrix" motif).

The current color scheme options: (1) monero, (2) monero_alt, (3) standard or (4) auto and is the third option to the executable.