For the last week or so I've been fiddling with the onboard again.
There's code written to start/stop the fans and the furnace, and it works really well. It just has gotten kinda cruddy over the last two years and eats more memory than I like. It also doesn't work as seamlessly with the database. I've been trying to move to PHP.
The handiest part of the onboard is probably the pretty LCD screen. It tells me the temperature, humidity, and that sort of thing all the time. Well now, the code that does that, fills a database....the database has another program to display those figures for it, and the bottom line is: I can now share with you the LCD screen.
If you'll go to http://countermoon.org/display you'll see a picture of the LCD (for reference purposes- it's not 'live') and then you'll see the four things that are displayed there.
OK, so it's not identical, but it's kind cool to go to a website in a movable vehicle, hit a page and see if the door is open, the fans are on, and how hot it is in there. :>
WheelDweller said
11:22 PM Mar 19, 2010
Well, there's this kinda phenomenon, too: The forest fire. Forests (as most of you here, know) tend to clutter when not trimmed by humans. The clutter continues until something causes a fire, and it burns like a liquid reset button, covering the hills and dales.
But that doesn't mean it's only disrupted; a forest fire gives all the trees a chance to re-locate and start over. And that's what the latest system crash did for me. :/
The trailer's been a quiet place for some time; not only is money short, but the weather's been pretty cold, too. Well some money appeared and I got a new power supply, one that deals with 6-30V swings. Problem is, something went wrong and killed the motherboard and hard drive....forest fire.
I'm slowly trying to get things back together, but due to this outage, things are getting improved. Better backups were the FIRST order of business, but meanwhile getting the serial 'dongle' for the sensor network lets me improve the software _while_ I publish it, and I'll start on that, soon.
Right now everything's running from a server in the house, but in about two months it'll be back in the trailer. Won'tcha stop by for a look?
There's code written to start/stop the fans and the furnace, and it works really well. It just has gotten kinda cruddy over the last two years and eats more memory than I like. It also doesn't work as seamlessly with the database. I've been trying to move to PHP.
The handiest part of the onboard is probably the pretty LCD screen. It tells me the temperature, humidity, and that sort of thing all the time. Well now, the code that does that, fills a database....the database has another program to display those figures for it, and the bottom line is: I can now share with you the LCD screen.
If you'll go to http://countermoon.org/display you'll see a picture of the LCD (for reference purposes- it's not 'live') and then you'll see the four things that are displayed there.
OK, so it's not identical, but it's kind cool to go to a website in a movable vehicle, hit a page and see if the door is open, the fans are on, and how hot it is in there. :>