Display the number of user connected

Hey everyone,

I want to display the number of users connected to my piratebox on the home page, how can I do that? Most of the help I found on the web require internet connection. Is it possible to do it without internet on a piratebox?
P.S. I'm a beginner in programming, i just know some python and some C

Thanks!
Heortex

take a look at this post [forum.piratebox.cc] it might be able to get you started on figuring out a way to display the number.

This would be handy for other purposes eg to see how many people are linked to a given unit for mesh networks etc.
One big problem I ran into is that if the battery gets low you want to tell people to play nice so the one who has most of a file downloaded gets priority.