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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
        last edited by

        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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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @hobbit666
                                    last edited by travisdh1

                                    @hobbit666 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                    Could this be monitored by Zabbix??

                                    Might do one myself if it can 😄

                                    Yes. For Zabbix you'd just install the client.

                                    I'm having the sensors drop their information into /var/log with the idea that it would be very easy to integrate with log shipping or Splunk/splunk like programs.

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                                    • hobbit666H
                                      hobbit666
                                      last edited by

                                      Thinking maybe having 2-3 sensors for different parts of the room then feed them into zabbix and alert if 1 goes over x. hmmmm see if I can get some cheap now and the sensors and some cables.

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                                      • gjacobseG
                                        gjacobse @hobbit666
                                        last edited by

                                        @hobbit666 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                        Thinking maybe having 2-3 sensors for different parts of the room then feed them into zabbix and alert if 1 goes over x. hmmmm see if I can get some cheap now and the sensors and some cables.

                                        you should be able to do that with no issues... have a look at the ESP8266 chip as an option for that.

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                                        • travisdh1T
                                          travisdh1 @hobbit666
                                          last edited by

                                          @hobbit666 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                          Thinking maybe having 2-3 sensors for different parts of the room then feed them into zabbix and alert if 1 goes over x. hmmmm see if I can get some cheap now and the sensors and some cables.

                                          Water sensors are the simplest sensors you can possibly make, literally just two wires. It's crazy to see what companies charge for those. $50 for a piece of plastic that holds two wires, the only requirement is that the two wires never touch. So those are really super cheap and easy to add onto a Pi/Arduino.

                                          If you want a network connection for each of them, then a Pi is going to be easier to deal with than adding that to an Arduino.

                                          I just took a quick look, and zabbix-agent is included in the Raspbian repo.

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1 @gjacobse
                                            last edited by

                                            @gjacobse said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                            @hobbit666 said in DIY Environment Monitoring:

                                            Thinking maybe having 2-3 sensors for different parts of the room then feed them into zabbix and alert if 1 goes over x. hmmmm see if I can get some cheap now and the sensors and some cables.

                                            you should be able to do that with no issues... have a look at the ESP8266 chip as an option for that.

                                            You made me look, Adafruit is at it again. HUZZAH ESP8266 Wifi, enough pins to make a useful control module, and can use the Arduino IDE to program the thing. So much win with that one.

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