Alternative to OHM for those running headless on linux

[EZarnosky]

I know I asked about this before (https://github.com/Hellowlol/HTPC-Manager/issues/226). But since then I have tried to get OHM working on my headless linux system, without any luck. Can you provide an alternative tool(s) for those of us running headless?

[Hellowlol]

I'll allow pretty much anything as long as I don't have to code it ;)

[EZarnosky]

Lol, does that also include not coding the data scrapping? :P

[Hellowlol]

Yes :D but I'll welcome a pr and I'll help if anybody wants to to start on this.

[EZarnosky]

I'd love to - but, so many projects and most important - my python skill sucks!

I will keep my eyes open to see if there is any python source out there that might be a good foundation for the addition.

[Hellowlol]

There you go: https://github.com/nima/python-dmidecode

[Hellowlol]

Or parse dmesg (does not req root)

Dunno if you can find anything usefull but here an example:

d  = {}
with open('pathto.txt', 'r') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        line = line.strip()
        try:
            if ':' in line:
                s = line.split(':')
                # remove time
                key = s[0][15:]
                value = s[1]
                d[key] = value
        except Exception as e:
            print e

print d