Even the expensive commercial ones (I have one within 5 feet of me right now) are not as accurate as a flowmeter. Yes, a flowmeter is a bit of a PIA, but load cells creep. Load cells are handy to be sure and may be the right choice for some applications, but I prefer flowmeters.
I dont use load cells but the HX711 is the only one supported by RPints right now
LMGTFY is like a Rick Roll in IT.
However, the point is this is an open-source project and a developer should always appreciate even the smallest effort to make things better. I got dragged into Homebrew FOSS projects by doing just what I suggested: Writing some text. Without the community collaborating, these things die.
tacked on the end of my index.php - literally the very last line - and it looks like this:
2021-04-04 13:51:41 RPINTS: Could not import RFID Reader, RFID disabled. Assuming SPI not installed/configured
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: starting WS server
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: starting device monitors...
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/var/www/html/rpints/python/PintDispatch.py", line 472, in spawnWebSocketServer
os.chdir(options.document_root)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/www/html/python/ws'
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: starting command server
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: starting fan control
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: Fan Control fanControl1 is Running
2021-04-04 13:51:50 RPINTS: Not Configured to run Fan
2021-04-04 13:51:51 RPINTS: Motion Detector MD-Primary PIR is Running
2021-04-04 13:51:51 RPINTS: 1Wire Temperature Thread 1 is Running
2021-04-04 13:51:51 RPINTS: Unable to run Motion Detection
That's actually an image with a transparent background
<img class="size" src="img/tap_numbers.png" alt="">
Cheers!
<style type="text/css">
<!--
img.size{
width:100%;
height:auto;
}
-->
</style>
<img class="size" src="img/tap_numbers.png" alt="">Ah, ok, good to know. My original PIR script uses GPIO8 for driving an LED that lights when the PIR fires.
I'm gonna have to get up to speed on this package eventually so I'll keep digging
Yes there is an issue with something in the motion detection logic from the RPints.log unfortunately it looks like debug is turned off (which it is by default)
ya that is confusing, but its so the system doesnt need to restart if the user enables the fan control, essentially its a thread that runs to check if it gets enabled or disabled. Could be better like a specific message to recheck the fan control instead of a loop.
Check RPints.log after press to see if anything is logged out. Those buttons rely on the flowmeter script to work and hence log into the file.
Sounds like you found the hardware IO page to help figure it out. the page just looks at all known/possible equipment and puts it in the correct cell based if it needs to be on the pi or shield
The difference between my FlowMonitor.py (responsible for getting the pulses) is that my has interrupts for when the pin changes vs the original which just check the state in a loop. i use the same logic to count pulses (slightly different syntax). Both versions check if the pin state changed and if its now high count the pulse as a kicked or a pour based on how fast it changed from its last state.
Im thinking around line 314 of index.php, after the first printBeerList as that is what prints the tap list.
Python directory has all the functions in it they are broken out into
I had found two of the sample data keg entries had 1/2 barrel kegs shown when they were all supposed to be 5 gallon corny kegs. Check out the Super Champion vs Challenger IV - the latter appears as a 1/2 barrel on the tap list. I deleted them but may have forgotten to tap two different kegs to take their places. And before I went to bed this morning I set all six kegs to full, and when I checked them this morning they were all still full. So let's table that for now. It did succeed so that's good.[Apr 5 14:15:32 RASPI9 systemd-udevd[155]: /etc/udev/rules.d/80-alamode.rules:1: Invalid key/value pair, starting at character 52 (',')KERNEL=="ttyAMA0", SYMLINK+="ttyS0",GROUP="dialout",MODE:=0666
KERNEL=="ttyACM0", SYMLINK+="ttyS1",GROUP="dialout",MODE:=0666
The button loads a new page that sends the command to the python through the webserver socket, then redirects back to the admin page which starts with the left bar menu fully expanded then collapses some menus, that is why it grows then shrinks.
it is something with attaching to the pin, it seems you have it defined as Pin 26 (GPIO7), RFID readers need that pin for their clock but i see from your log RFID is disabled so no RPints should be connecting to that pin (the IO page shows it just as a means to know that RFID will use that pin if you enable it) do you have anything else configured to use that pin on your system? could you try a different Pin just to see if it works
Thanks for the heads up, really that file is managed by the Alamode team, the installer just downloads it like the manual instruction say to do.
it seems a common issue in phpmyadmin, looks like it was fixed in newer versions, not sure what version was installed on your Pi (also PHP version might make a difference)
OMGosh! I just sudo'd this command in terminal, and it got rid of that annoying pink error pop-up in phpmyadmin!
config = {}
# the dir everything lives in
config['pints.dir'] = '/var/www/html/rpints/'
#the serial port to the alamode
#config['flowmon.port'] = '/dev/ttyS0'
#The following line is for serial over USB
##config['flowmon.port' ] = '/dev/ttyACM0'
#The following line is for serial over bluetooth
##config['flowmon.port'] = '/dev/rfcomm0'
#logging settings for flowmon
config['flowmon.debug' ] = True
#logging settings for pintdispatch
config['dispatch.debug' ] = True
#logging settings for load cells
config['loadcell.debug' ] = True
#Use fake monitoring to report flow
config['dispatch.debugMonitoring' ] = False
config['flowmon.port'] = '/dev/ttyS0'2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: starting WS server
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: starting device monitors...
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: starting command server
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: resetting Arduino
[2021-04-05 18:16:53,591] [CRITICAL] mod_pywebsocket.standalone.WebSocketServer: No sockets activated. Use info log level to see the reason.
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: starting fan control
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: Creating Serial Listener
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: Fan Control fanControl1 is Running
2021-04-05 18:16:53 RPINTS: Not Configured to run Fan
2021-04-05 18:16:54 RPINTS: Motion Detector MD-Primary PIR is Running
2021-04-05 18:16:54 RPINTS: 1Wire Temperature Thread 1 is Running
2021-04-05 18:16:54 RPINTS: waiting for Arduino to come alive
2021-04-05 18:16:54 RPINTS: Unable to run Motion Detection
2021-04-05 18:16:54 RPINTS: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/www/html/rpints/python/FlowMonitor.py", line 593, in run
GPIO.add_event_detect(self.pirPin, GPIO.RISING, callback=self.MOTION)
RuntimeError: Failed to add edge detection
I'm your Huckleberry!
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
cmd = 'xscreensaver-command -deactivate'
playsound = 'mpg321 /home/pi/tada.mp3'
PIR_PIN = 9
STATUS_PIN = 10
GPIO.setup(PIR_PIN, GPIO.IN)
GPIO.setup(STATUS_PIN, GPIO.OUT)
def MOTION(PIR_PIN):
os.system(cmd)
GPIO.output(STATUS_PIN,True)
os.system(playsound)
GPIO.output(STATUS_PIN,False)
try:
GPIO.add_event_detect(PIR_PIN, GPIO.RISING, callback=MOTION)
while 1:
time.sleep(100)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
GPIO.cleanup()
GPIO.cleanup()
Thanks! Unfortunately it's so much tweaking...I had to fork off of @RandR+ 's version.
Thank goodness he's such a nice guy because I usually ask for his help every other update when I merge the branches.
