HIP

To Do

Last updated 2005-10-31

• Time synch on PMP (Alex, Tom) - done
• Backup on PMP - just backup /etc/, /root, /usr/local, and ~guest (Tom)
• Porting wind speed and direction software and setup, made some progress (Mary, Alex, Colin)
• Sleep and wake on pmp1 with watchdog timer (Mary)
  • PMP interface to wind gadget, conversion or plumbing error?
  • Next week on roof
  • Two weeks in field (2005-09-12)
• RP&L Weather data, contact Gus Duke. Indiana American Water has a link which she sent. (Mary, Charlie)
• Rain guage, Mary has worked on it but it's not working. (Mary, Charlie)
• Solar radiation sensor, continues to make progress, conversion and data comparison (Colin)
• GPS setup with time server (Tom)

Useful Support Documents from Davis Instruments:

• http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2

Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland

• http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104

Hardware:

• PMP
  • Technologic Systems TS56000 single board computer running Linux off a SANDisk.
  • URL for the board and documentation
  • To Do
    • Port threaded anemometer code, change code to use local analog/digital inputs
    • Setup NFS mounting of / on the pmp from proto
    • Test analog and digital inputs
    • Setup and test WiFi interface
    • Test and document backup and recovery procedure
    • Identify and recover missing files from SANDisk
    • Design and implement data collection, sleep, and data transfer functions

• Anemometer
  • The Wind direction sends an analogue number.
  • The wind speed is the number of pulses per 2.25 second interval. The number of pulses is the windspeed in MPH.

• We are using a Digi PortServer TS 2, SN=V40611264
  • URL of the documentation

• Rain guage:
  • Sends a pulse every time the cup switches.