Coding Sunday

The tortoise needs an improved heating setup, now have a 'night time' buld that just puts out heat. Before I change anything I want to have numbers so I can try and quantify the change.

I knocked up a micropython script and ran it on a nodemcu board with a couple of dht11's. It looks like this:

def temperatureclient(sensors,addr="255.255.255.255"):
    print("       sending to: {} {} every {} seconds"
        .format(addr , PORT, DELAY))

    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    while True:
        pkt = takereading(sensors)
        sock.sendto(pkt, (addr, PORT))

        time.sleep(DELAY)

def takereading(sensors):
    readings = []
    for sensor in sensors:
        sensor.measure()

        reading = {}

        reading["sensor"] = str(sensor.pin)
        reading["pin"] = str(sensor.pin)
        reading["temp"] = sensor.temperature()
        reading["humditiy"] = sensor.humidity()

        readings.append(reading)
        print(reading)
    return json.dumps(readings)

It doesn't have to live for long, just a day or two.

The always on machine on my network doesn't seem to have anything useful installed and without internet at home that wasn't going to be a simple fix. Instead I used tcpdump to capture the json packets.

Tcpdump works really well in this situation, the micopython board doesn't have a RTC, but the pcap from tcpdump will have acurate timestamps for each field. I did something like:

$ tcpdump -w tempreadings.pcap udp and port 6969

Later I can process this out with a shell script or scapy or something.

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

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