HIP:summer2009

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TODO during this summer, 2009

• Testing H2O Unit "End to End"
  • Find out how to use Minicom
  • Test data flow from sonde to database via cell phone.

• Springwood Install

• Portable testkit
  • X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
  • Thermal interface compound (TIC)
  • Sonde
  • Netbook
  • Printer
  • GPS

• Schema + Interface

• Wind @ miller

• Learning languages: Perl, Python, Bash

Whats for the week of the 8th June 2009

• Design a raft for the springwood water monitoring kit.
  • find the best angle for the solar panel for the springwood lake kit (== latitude of the area)
• Get the second field unit working
• Change the name of the water monitoring kit from 4th Floor to Springwood
• Get all watt nodes on line and in DB
• Configure the single serial go sonde setting to get data directory from sonde.
• Get ready for Mashup discussion and finish documentation

What's for today? (6/5/2009)

• Documentation
  • How to mash up google earth and gun plot automatically (Sanele)
  • How to install VirtualBox (Mikio)
  • How to use YSI650 at windows xp on Virtual Box in Ubuntu (Mikio)
  • How to process data through sonde to csv (Mikio)
• List up the solutions from last year
• Why are the EEAP nodes not recording data in the database?
• Testing the flow of electric current of pmp4
  • To charge the battery of pmp4
• To write up infobomb script guide
• Learn Python and Perl
• How do I connect to pmp via USB from Baker?
• Charge and learn how to use differential GPS
• Prepare second water testing kit
• Figure out if the micro testing using which includes sonde and Zoey works

Packaging

• • For Zoey and accessories: Pelican case 1470
  • For Zoey: Carrying sleeve
  • For Differential GPS: Pelican case 1470 and tripod stand
  • For YSI650 + Sonde: Pelican case 1470
  • For XRF: Pelican case 1430
  • Add another 1470 for second Dell Mini

Shopping List for Terry

• NOTE: Both the Carrying sleeve and the tripod stand are at Amazon.com, while the pelican cases are all from pelicanonline-ralphs.com (Please follow the links).
• Soft Carrying Sleeve for Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Notebook
• Velbon Dual Function Mini Photographic/Video Tripod
• Four 1470 pelican cases, 1 black and 3 desert tan
• One 1430 black pelican case (only black available)

Measurement for portable test kit

• XRF (INNOV-X ALPHA)
  • Dimensions: 30.5cm * 24.5cm * 8.0cm
  • Weight: 1.6kg
• TIC (Fluke TiR1 Infrared Thermal Imager)
  • Dimensions: 25.4cm * 12.7cm * 15.2cm
  • Weight: 1.1kg
• Sonde (YSI 600R)
  • Diameter: 4.2cm
  • Length: 46.5cm
  • Weight: 0.5kg
• Netbook (Dell Inspiron Mini 9)
  • Dimensions: 23.2cm * 3.17cm * 17.2cm
  • Weight: 1.03kg
• GPS (MAGELLAN eXplorist100)
  • Dimensions: 5.6cm x 11.9cm x 3.3cm
  • Weight: 0.164kg
• Printer(PS900 PrintStik Pocket Size Full Page Printer)
  • Dimensions: 2.5cm * 27.3cm * 3.8cm
  • Weight: 0.7kg
• pelican case

Weight Measurement
pelican case + battery + cellphone + pmp + charge controller = 38 lb
sonde = 2 lb
solar panel = 22 lb
solar panel stand = 15 lb
total = 77 lb = 35 kg

Infobomb Script

Infobomb trac wiki
Web Interface Cacti
Diagram "pmp to infobomb"

pmp side

• crondtab

# for Cell Phone 
*/15 * * * * /root/scripts/poll_all_sonde.pl; /root/scripts/process_readings-cell.sh;
0 * * * * /root/scripts/transfer-cell.pl

• poll_all_sonde.pl
• process_readings-cell.sh
  • client-cell.pl
• transfer-cell.pl

• autopoll (shell script)
  • Run sonde_data.pl multiple times

• client.pl
• connect
• cont_poll_all.pl
• dial-cell
• dial-gms1
• disconnect
• dot-profile
• get-updates
• gprs-cell
• gprs-gms1
• hangup
• loadUSB.sh
• loadUSBModules.sh

• ppp-config
• print_data.pl

• process_readings.sh
• rdate
• scp-scripts
• set-date
• sonde_data.pl
• tar

• update-from-svn
• update_all_pmps

stewie side

infobomb@stewie:~$ crontab -u infobomb -l
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILTO=infobomb
HOME=/home/infobomb
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h  dom mon dow   command
*/10 * * * * export PYTHONPATH='/home/infobomb'; 
             export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=infobomb.settings; 
             /home/infobomb/infobomb/scripts/run_infobomb_dataparser > /dev/null 2>&1
*/30 * * * * export PYTHONPATH='/home/infobomb'; 
             export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=infobomb.settings; 
             /home/infobomb/infobomb/scripts/extract-n-check-data.pl > /dev/null 2>&1
*/10 * * * * /home/infobomb/eeap/eeap_sync.py >> /home/infobomb/eeap/log.txt

• run_infobomb_dataparser
  • dataparser.py
• transaction.py

Editing Log

• stewie.cs.earlham.edu:/home/infobomb/eeap/eeap_sync.py
  • Changed password (Mikio)
• stewie.cs.earlham.edu:/home/infobomb/infobomb/settings.py
  • Changed password (Mikio)

Note (How to log into to infobomb database)

• How to log in to infobomb database?
  • $psql -d infobomb -h db.cs.earlham.edu -U infobomb
  • password: ***************

Documentation on Zoey setup and mashup preparation

• Level 1: How to correct data with YSI650 and Zoey (Mikio)
• Level 2: How to mash up map and graph (Sanele)

Zoey Guide

• Recover Ubuntu
• Update Ubuntu
• Virtual Box
• Windows XP
• Serial Driver
• EcoWatch
• Data Transfer (File name problem)