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    • thwrT
      thwr
      last edited by

      BTW, my dear Travis, breadboards are meant for temporary testing, not for permanent installations 😉

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @thwr
        last edited by

        @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

        BTW, my dear Travis, breadboards are meant for temporary testing, not for permanent installations 😉

        Yep, that's not a true breadboard tho. (I do have one I used to test things out, make sure I didn't release any of that magic electronic smoke.) The perma-proto boards have connections that act exactly like a breadboard, but everything has to be soldered into place.

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        • thwrT
          thwr @travisdh1
          last edited by

          @travisdh1 ah ok, didn't see that on the picture. Thanks for mentioning it.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @thwr
            last edited by

            @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

            @travisdh1 ah ok, didn't see that on the picture. Thanks for mentioning it.

            Yeah, picture doesn't really show it I know. Makes going between prototype and implementation much quicker.

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1
              last edited by

              And I have the door sensor working. Not doing anything real useful yet, just printing "DOOR ALARM!" and the time on the command line. It's in python tho, which means it's easily modded. No references for this one, tho I did lookup how to access the GPO pins from somewhere (lost where I got that bit, doh!)

              tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
              import datetime
              import time
              import RPi.GPIO as io
              io.setmode(io.BCM)
              door_pin = 6
              io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
              while True:
                       if io.input(door_pin):
                              print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                      time.sleep(0.5)
              

              It works, tho doesn't do anything useful yet. More to come.

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @travisdh1
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                @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                First bit of coding here. The temperature/humidity sensor was meant for use in an Arduino, so I used a c program for it. Sourced from The Raspberry Pi Hobyis and Tutorials Point. Lots of examples of working with c and time around, but very few mention WHICH version of c (c, c++, c#, etc). Coming from code originally meant for use in an Arduino, it is just c.

                This couple pages of code simply prints the date/time, temp C, temp F, humidity separated by commas (easy to grab the things out of later.)

                /***************************************************
                  sample code for the HDC1000 Humidity & Temp Sensor
                  by  [email protected]
                  2015-08-28
                  adapted from Adafruit_HDC1000 library, license follows:
                  Designed specifically to work with the HDC1000 sensor from Adafruit
                  ----> https://www.adafruit.com/products/2635
                  These sensors use I2C to communicate, 2 pins are required to
                  interface
                  Adafruit invests time and resources providing this open source code,
                  please support Adafruit and open-source hardware by purchasing
                  products from Adafruit!
                  Written by Limor Fried/Ladyada for Adafruit Industries.
                  BSD license, all text above must be included in any redistribution
                 ****************************************************/
                #include <errno.h>
                #include <stdio.h>
                #include <stdarg.h>
                #include <string.h>
                #include <stdlib.h>
                #include <stdint.h>
                #include <unistd.h>
                #include <sys/types.h>
                #include <arpa/inet.h>
                #include <wiringPi.h>
                #include <wiringPiI2C.h>
                #include <time.h>
                #define HDC1000_I2CADDR       0x40
                #define HDC1000_TEMP          0x00
                #define HDC1000_HUMID         0x01
                #define HDC1000_CONFIG_MODE   (1 << 12)
                #define HDC1000_CONFIG_RST    (1 << 15)
                #define HDC1000_CONFIG_TRES_14  0
                #define HDC1000_CONFIG_HRES_14  0
                #define HDC1000_MANUFID       0xFE
                #define HDC1000_DEVICEID      0xFF
                uint16_t i2c_read16(int fd, uint8_t outbyte)
                {
                 uint16_t retval;
                 write(fd, &outbyte, 1);
                 delay(50);
                 read(fd, &retval, 2);
                 return ntohs(retval);
                }
                uint32_t i2c_read32(int fd, uint8_t outbyte)
                {
                 uint32_t retval;
                 write(fd, &outbyte, 1);
                 delay(50);
                 read(fd, &retval, 4);
                 return ntohl(retval);
                }
                int HDC1000_Init(uint8_t addr)
                {
                 uint32_t x;
                 int fd = wiringPiI2CSetup(addr);
                 if (fd==-1)
                 {
                  printf("wiringPiI2CSetup for hdc1000 failed\n");
                  return -1;
                 }
                 // reset, and select 14 bit temp & humidity
                 uint16_t config = HDC1000_CONFIG_RST | HDC1000_CONFIG_MODE | HDC1000_CONFIG_TRES_14 | HDC1000_CONFIG_HRES_14;
                 write(fd, &config, 2);
                 delay(15);
                 x = i2c_read16(fd,HDC1000_MANUFID);
                 if (x != 0x5449)
                 {
                  printf("HDC1000_MANUFID returned %4X\n",x);
                  return -1;
                 }
                 x = i2c_read16(fd,HDC1000_DEVICEID);
                 if (x != 0x1000)
                 {
                  printf("HDC1000_DEVICEID returned %4X\n",x);
                  return -1;
                 }
                 return fd;
                }
                float HDC1000_readTemperature(int fd)
                {
                  float temp = (i2c_read32(fd,HDC1000_TEMP) >> 16);
                  temp /= 65536;
                  temp *= 165;
                  temp -= 40;
                  return temp;
                }
                float HDC1000_readHumidity(int fd)
                {
                  float hum = (i2c_read32(fd, HDC1000_TEMP) & 0xFFFF);
                  hum /= 65536;
                  hum *= 100;
                  return hum;
                }
                int main(VOID)
                {
                 int fd;
                 float x;
                 fd = HDC1000_Init(HDC1000_I2CADDR);
                 if (fd==-1)
                 {
                  printf("HDC1000_Init failed\n");
                  return 0;
                 }
                // Get and print local time
                 time_t rawtime;
                 struct tm *info;
                 char buffer[80];
                 time( &rawtime );
                 info = localtime( &rawtime );
                 strftime(buffer,80,"%x %X", info);
                 printf("%s", buffer );
                // time_t t;
                // time(&t);
                // printf("%s",ctime(&t));
                 x = HDC1000_readTemperature(fd);
                 printf(", %4.1f C, %4.1f F, ",x,((x*9)/5)+32);
                 x = HDC1000_readHumidity(fd);
                 printf("%4.1f%%\n",x);
                 return 0;
                }
                

                Slightly random question, how do I put that all in it's own scroll box? Never mind, it just happens.

                I forgot an extremely important bit. For this code to work correctly, you need to download and install wiringPi. It's on git, and the build script just works. Once that's done, you do need to add -lwiringPi to your compiler options. So you compile with

                gcc temphum.c -lwiringPi
                
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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1
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                  Got a script to run that will log the daily average temperature for me. I think it's longer than it needs to be, but it works and I actually didn't have much trouble getting it to work once I dropped it into zsh. (zsh natively supports double float that bash does not.)

                  #!/bin/zsh
                  # Calculate previous days average temperature
                  # Get yesterday's date
                  yesterday=$(date -d "-1 days" +%D)
                  # Dump only yesterday's data into a file
                  eval 'cat /var/log/temp/temp.log | grep ${yesterday} > /home/tech/bin/yesterdaylog'
                  # Get a count of the number of records in yesterday's records
                  # In case of a power outage it will be different
                  num_records=$(eval "wc -l /home/tech/bin/yesterdaylog|cut -d' ' -f1")
                  # Get the values in Farenheight from yesterday's file
                  degF=( $(cut -d ',' -f3 /home/tech/bin/yesterdaylog) )
                  # Get a sum of the degF array to use in average
                  tot=$((${(j[+])degF[*]}))
                  # Devide tot by num_records to produce an average
                  daily_average=$((tot/num_records))
                  daily_average2=$(eval "echo '$daily_average' | cut -c1-5")
                  # Drop the output into another log file
                  date +%D", "$daily_average2 >> /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                  # Troubleshooting section.  Print variables for confirmation.
                  #echo "${yesterday}"
                  #echo $num_records
                  #echo $degF[1]
                  #echo $tot
                  #echo $daily_average2
                  

                  And the root crontab now contains

                  */10 * * * * /home/tech/bin/tmphmdtime.out >> /var/log/temp/temp.log
                  2 2 * * * /home/tech/bin/tmpavgcalc.sh
                  
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                  • travisdh1T
                    travisdh1
                    last edited by

                    Just to cover all my bases, I also created a logrotate configuration file for my two new log files.

                    /var/log/temp/temp.log
                    {
                    monthly
                    rotate 24
                    errors tech
                    prerotate
                    compress
                    }
                    
                    /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                    {
                    monthly
                    rotate 56
                    errors tech
                    prerotate
                    compress
                    }
                    
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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1
                      last edited by

                      I suppose this could all be rolled up into a nice debian package, but for now I'm just going to image the sd card and call it a day.

                      Added /home/user/bin to the user's path in .bashrc. To get the current time/tempC/tempF/humidity I just run tmphmdtime.out (copied a.out to that in the user bin directory).

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                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1
                        last edited by

                        Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                        tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                        07/11/16, 77.70
                        07/12/16, 72.56
                        07/13/16, 73.67
                        07/14/16, 73.14
                        07/15/16, 73.13
                        07/16/16, 72.83
                        07/17/16, 71.27
                        07/18/16, 71.45
                        

                        When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

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                        • thwrT
                          thwr
                          last edited by thwr

                          @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                          Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                          tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                          07/11/16, 77.70
                          07/12/16, 72.56
                          07/13/16, 73.67
                          07/14/16, 73.14
                          07/15/16, 73.13
                          07/16/16, 72.83
                          07/17/16, 71.27
                          07/18/16, 71.45
                          

                          When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                          Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @thwr
                            last edited by

                            @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                            @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                            Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                            tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                            07/11/16, 77.70
                            07/12/16, 72.56
                            07/13/16, 73.67
                            07/14/16, 73.14
                            07/15/16, 73.13
                            07/16/16, 72.83
                            07/17/16, 71.27
                            07/18/16, 71.45
                            

                            When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                            Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

                            Oh, the door monitor script is working great via a very small python script. Just need to get the little sucker mounted properly.

                            tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
                            import datetime
                            import time
                            import RPi.GPIO as io
                            io.setmode(io.BCM)
                            door_pin = 6
                            io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
                            while True:
                                if io.input(door_pin):
                                        print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                                time.sleep(0.5)
                            
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                            • thwrT
                              thwr @travisdh1
                              last edited by

                              @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                              @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                              @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                              Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                              tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                              07/11/16, 77.70
                              07/12/16, 72.56
                              07/13/16, 73.67
                              07/14/16, 73.14
                              07/15/16, 73.13
                              07/16/16, 72.83
                              07/17/16, 71.27
                              07/18/16, 71.45
                              

                              When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                              Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

                              Oh, the door monitor script is working great via a very small python script. Just need to get the little sucker mounted properly.

                              tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
                              import datetime
                              import time
                              import RPi.GPIO as io
                              io.setmode(io.BCM)
                              door_pin = 6
                              io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
                              while True:
                                  if io.input(door_pin):
                                          print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                                  time.sleep(0.5)
                              

                              So your problem is getting an image? USB or IP cam?

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @thwr
                                last edited by

                                @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                                tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                                07/11/16, 77.70
                                07/12/16, 72.56
                                07/13/16, 73.67
                                07/14/16, 73.14
                                07/15/16, 73.13
                                07/16/16, 72.83
                                07/17/16, 71.27
                                07/18/16, 71.45
                                

                                When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                                Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

                                Oh, the door monitor script is working great via a very small python script. Just need to get the little sucker mounted properly.

                                tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
                                import datetime
                                import time
                                import RPi.GPIO as io
                                io.setmode(io.BCM)
                                door_pin = 6
                                io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
                                while True:
                                    if io.input(door_pin):
                                            print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                                    time.sleep(0.5)
                                

                                So your problem is getting an image? USB or IP cam?

                                IP cam, cheap TrendNet TV-IP672PI. Haven't looked at the camera side yet to see how difficult that will be.

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                                • thwrT
                                  thwr
                                  last edited by thwr

                                  Ah ok. There are basically 3 ways. Some cams do have kind of an API, like a REST interface. Others can upload pictures via FTP when they detect something with motion detection, so you could grab that image from there.

                                  But next to all cams can provide a video stream. You could grab that using VLC or some other streaming client. Grab a photo or maybe even an video 🙂

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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @travisdh1
                                    last edited by

                                    @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                                    tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                                    07/11/16, 77.70
                                    07/12/16, 72.56
                                    07/13/16, 73.67
                                    07/14/16, 73.14
                                    07/15/16, 73.13
                                    07/16/16, 72.83
                                    07/17/16, 71.27
                                    07/18/16, 71.45
                                    

                                    When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                                    Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

                                    Oh, the door monitor script is working great via a very small python script. Just need to get the little sucker mounted properly.

                                    tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
                                    import datetime
                                    import time
                                    import RPi.GPIO as io
                                    io.setmode(io.BCM)
                                    door_pin = 6
                                    io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
                                    while True:
                                        if io.input(door_pin):
                                                print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                                        time.sleep(0.5)
                                    

                                    So your problem is getting an image? USB or IP cam?

                                    IP cam, cheap TrendNet TV-IP672PI. Haven't looked at the camera side yet to see how difficult that will be.

                                    Hoping I can just grab a picture with wget or curl.

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                                    • travisdh1T
                                      travisdh1 @travisdh1
                                      last edited by

                                      @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      @thwr said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      @travisdh1 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                      Temp monitoring is working great. My daily log

                                      tech@tempdoor-rpi ~ $ tail /var/log/temp/dailytemp.log
                                      07/11/16, 77.70
                                      07/12/16, 72.56
                                      07/13/16, 73.67
                                      07/14/16, 73.14
                                      07/15/16, 73.13
                                      07/16/16, 72.83
                                      07/17/16, 71.27
                                      07/18/16, 71.45
                                      

                                      When I went in the room last week to adjust the air conditioner and the door sensor pieces were glued together instead of the door and door frame. Need to get that glued on properly and then get it logging that as well. We have a security camera in the room as well, would be nice to grab a picture from it each time someone opens the door.

                                      Easy, write a script that is monitoring an input pin. You could use a Reed switch for example. Basically a magnetic switch.

                                      Oh, the door monitor script is working great via a very small python script. Just need to get the little sucker mounted properly.

                                      tech@tempdoor-rpi ~/bin $ cat door.py
                                      import datetime
                                      import time
                                      import RPi.GPIO as io
                                      io.setmode(io.BCM)
                                      door_pin = 6
                                      io.setup(door_pin, io.IN, pull_up_down=io.PUD_UP) #Activate door sensor using the pull up resistor
                                      while True:
                                          if io.input(door_pin):
                                                  print ('DOOR ALARM!'), datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M %Y-%m-%d")
                                          time.sleep(0.5)
                                      

                                      So your problem is getting an image? USB or IP cam?

                                      IP cam, cheap TrendNet TV-IP672PI. Haven't looked at the camera side yet to see how difficult that will be.

                                      Hoping I can just grab a picture with wget or curl.

                                      Looks like it does support RTSP, so I should be able to work with that 🙂

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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1 @travisdh1
                                        last edited by

                                        cvlc rtsp://192.168.0.13:554/play1.sdp --rtsp-user=someluser --rtsp-pwd=somepassword --sout=file/ps:/mnt/gluststor/secvid/test.mpg -Vdummy
                                        

                                        Grabs the video camera feed and records it without any X11 installed 🙂 Now all I have to do is figure out how I want to work the file storage and it's good to go.

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                                        • hobbit666H
                                          hobbit666
                                          last edited by

                                          Could this be monitored by Zabbix??

                                          Might do one myself if it can 😄

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @hobbit666
                                            last edited by

                                            @hobbit666 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                            Could this be monitored by Zabbix??

                                            Might do one myself if it can 😄

                                            If you have sensors, yes.

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