HIP:summer2009

What's for today? (5/15/2009)

• Meeting from 10:30am @ D209
• To observe how crond moves in pmp5 and stewie
• To look into row database for checking temperature changes
• To write up infobomb script guide
• To research for a better printer
• Questions
  • Conductivity does not appear on Cacti. Why?
  • I left the pmp5 switch on last night but pmp5 did not send any data to stewie. Why?
  • How do I connect to pmp via USB from Baker?
  • I want to see crontabs in stewie which is owned by root.
  • What do we print by printer of portable test kit?
  • How do I log in database at stewie?

TODO

• 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

Shopping List

• Printer
  • PS900 PrintStik Pocket Size Full Page Printer

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(?)

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

• dataparser.py
• transaction.py

Note

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