DeviceControl

DeviceControl is a tool to provide unified interface to control and measure data in specific cultivation device. We recommend reading wiki to get started with the tool and documentation to get more details about the implementation.

Installation

DeviceControl runs in a Docker container with locally installed database. The reason for installation of database locally is to make data more persistent and prone to unintentional deletion.

1. Before we start, it is necessary to install mySQL database and docker:

   sudo scripts/install_dependencies.sh
   

2. Then we need to set up the database:

   sudo scripts/setup_database.sh "<username>" "<password>"
   

3. Set environment variable to DATABASE to your local IP address - this is used by docker to access the database

   DATABASE=$(/sbin/ifconfig <interface> | sed -En -e 's/.*inet ([0-9.]+).*/\1/p')
   

4. Enable connections to your mySQL database from outside of localhost (might even require opening firewall for port 3306)

5. Download docker and start the docker:

   docker run -d --privileged -v /dev/serial/by-port/:/dev/serial/by-port/ -p 0.0.0.0:5000:5000 --restart unless-stopped --add-host="database:$DATABASE" --env-file DB_CONFIG --name "devicecontrol" bioarineo/devicecontrol:latest-<platform>
   

   where <platform> is either amd or arm. The by-port is mapped to docker file system to access devices connected to I/O ports.

DeviceControl is running and ready to be used.

Inspect and execute scripts/example_run.py to see demonstration of tool's usability on a simulated device.

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Quick start

Assuming DeviceControl is properly installed and running, follow these steps to quickly setup a device and execute a measurement:

import requests

# device configuration
test_PBR_device = {
    'device_id': PBR_id,
    'device_class': 'test',
    'device_type': 'PBR',
    'address': 'null',
}

# register the device
requests.post('http://localhost:5000/device', json=test_PBR_device)

# configuration of a command for measurement of temperature
cmd = {'device_id': PBR_id,
       'command_id': '2',
       'await': True
      }

response = requests.post('http://localhost:5000/command', json=cmd)
print("The current temperature is", response.json()['data']['temp'])