lux sender

Branch Description

This is the zero branch where development of the lux sender happens.

Future Work

This program may read command line data for setting the loglevel before the configuration file is read.

Description

This daemon sends decoded lux data onto the HAL network.

MQTT Publishing

Each lux point is published onto the network under the run topic.

Each time the reporter/checkup_req is received, cached data is published under the checkup topic

Dependencies

• MAGLabPyLib (included as a submodule)
• minimalmodbus

Installation

(optional) Move files where appropriate:

• MAGLabPyLib may be installed using pip install
• lux.py may be installed in /usr/local/bin/
• lux_cfg.json may be installed in /etc/
• lux.env may be installed in the same location as the former

Modify the included lux_sender.service to your installation:

• where the python script is
• where the .env file is
• which user is running this script

Copy the lux_sender.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/ or where your distribution stores systemd scripts

Help

Please do not hesitate to leave a Github issue or email the MAG Laboratory contact email: contact [at] maglaboratory [dot] org. Our social media locations are on the website.

Authors

• @blu006

Version History

todo

License

The Unlicense