#StarTrack
monitor old Rainstars
##Disclaimer
This is my very first programming project and my first steps with git. I'm trying to advance in both as this project progresses.
##Description
Monitoring of piston driven reel irrigation systems (eg. Bauer Rainstar 1975-1995) with a RaspberryPi
##Goals
Software
- measure the current retraction speed
- calculate the remaining irrigation time
- calculate water/area at current speed
- communicate over 3G
- alert when retraction is finished / has stopped
- post status to a server
- possibility for setting remaining length manually
- web interface for (live) monitoring over external server
- show chart with speed over time for all machines
- push live status to webclients (over websocket)
- stop or regulate machines remotely via web interface
Hardware
- load battery
- with photovoltaic cell
- with generator driven by water from the piston drive
- regulate retraction speed
##Hardware
My hardware:
- 1x Bauer Rainstar (90-400 ? from ~1985)
- 1x RaspberryPi Model B (512 MB Ram)
- 2x Inductive proximity sensor Omron E2B-M12KS04-WP-B2 2M
- 1x HD44780 compatible 20x4 character LCD
- 1x 3G Stick Huawei E156G
##Node Dependencies
###Operating system
I'm running Debian Wheezy (Raspbian image from 05.05.2015). Additional packages installed:
- git
- python-pip (python3-pip)
- python-dev (python3-dev)
- python-smbus (python3-smbus) req. for Adafruit_CharLCD
- build-essential
For 3G connectivity:
- ppp
- wvdial
- sakis3g: http://www.sakis3g.com/ | https://github.com/taoyuan/sakis3g-source
###Python modules
- Adafruit_CharLCD: Original: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD / Python3: https://github.com/matthw/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD
- RPi.GPIO (comes with Raspbian)
- subprocess32 (Python2 - for Python3: subprocess)
- requests
- adnpy (Python 2 only)
- config
- PyJWT
##Server Dependencies
- Webserver of your choice
- PHP 5.?
- Sqlite3
- composer https://getcomposer.org
- ZeroMQ for WebSocket: http://zeromq.org
##Licence
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.