IoT with OpenPicus Flyport :Temperature/Pressure with BMP085, I2C LCD setup and use case of Pachube and Paraimpu
After the previous exercise with a Flyport Simulator connected to the web services, I will expose the experience and solution of the following problem :
- Acquire Temperature & Pressure of a BMP085 device on a I2C bus
- Set the Real Time clock to the web time and use an alarm to acquire regularly the measurements
- Send the measurements to some Cloud storage, (I have integrated successfully NimBits, ThingSpeak, Paraimpu and Pachube…)
- Display the curves of the measurements on the web page of the Flyport.
- Setup a LCD display HD44780 connected to the Flyport with I2C bus, thanks to I2C driver chip that is easy and low cost and need less wires.
- Display some values on the local LCD as a “weather station”…
As explained above, I tried different Web Services to store the data, and Pachube seems quite good as it allows a very easy graphing out of the data.
But Pachube is not able to process the Data and generate alerts (it seems) as easy as with ParaImpu
I chose to create a Pachube sensor in Paraimpu, and a connector inside Paraimpu that will tweet a message when an alert is raised. We will see how.
I have now all the means to connect to Nimbits, Thingspeak, Pachube, Paraimpu.
Will try to see how generic we may do that type of library, as each has its own, but all codes in project is different for the TCP socket handling... ![]()
In that 1st version, the LCD is not finished yet, but the project is working for all the stuff, but LCD.
I will publish the code after removal of the Keys...
Regards
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Flyport, pachube and Paraimpu! Very interesting! Soon, we'll publish your project!
Play with your imagination! Play with Flyport!
Great Work!
About your Paraimpu request, in next release the token will be shown in the thing details page too and not only in the C code.
Enjoy with Flyport and Paraimpu!
Regards,
Andrea (for Paraimpu Team)
Hello Jmlambert, your project is now online on openPICUS blog. Feel free to share it with your friends on your favourite social network sites.
Play with your imagination! Play with Flyport!
"[...]The API key is included in the C code, and is not available in the Web Page. I have requested the change, as this seems not the best choice." the guys from Paraimpu told us: "This feature has been included in the upcoming new Paraimpu release! "
Play with your imagination! Play with Flyport!