Meteorology: Experiment Asus WL-500Gp V2
Features:
- Creating a system for sending automated weather data without the need to have your computer running
- It consists of a telephone DSL router (Comtrend) in bridge mode, an Asus router, which in turn makes firewalls, ftp server, and server for other wireless devices (mobile, portable, …)
- there is a USA hosting with unlimited space and bandwidth : Bluehost
- …
Planning:
Firmware of the router:
After trying many frimwares: openwrt,ddwrt,… I have finally decided on Oleg’s firmware, more information about the project:
http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/ , is best adapted to me the router, specifically: WL500gpv2-1.9.2.7-d-r2624.trx becose my router is V2 with 16 MB ram, for a novice like me, with linux, it was quite complicated, the main steps:
- Download and install Optware to compile programs from the router itself, an alternative is to compile out by a cross-compile with a colinux for example, but is much more complex set you build modules to the router, also with 16 mb compiled ram pretty fast. if you seek on google: optware-install-oleg.sh You will find several links on how to do
- Mount a usb memory stick as / opt and start it at the beginning:
mount /opt at start up:
[admin@asus sbin]$ pwd
/usr/local/sbin
[admin@asus sbin]$ cat post-mount
#!/bin/sh
mount -o bind /tmp/mnt/disca_1/opt /opt
/opt/sbin/cron
/usr/sbin/wl radio off
- Disable USB 2.0 support in the web console of the router (if enabled, does not work)
- Install the following ipkg packages:
ipkg list_installed
buildroot – 4.1.1-13 – uClibc compilation toolchain
bzip2 – 1.0.6-1 – Very high-quality data compression program
ipkg-opt – 0.99.163-10 – The Itsy Package Manager
libdb – 4.2.52-3 – Berkeley DB Libraries
libusb – 0.1.12-2 – Library for interfacing to the USB subsystem.
make – 3.82-1 – examines files and runs commands necessary for compilation
ncurses – 5.7-1 – NCurses libraries
ncursesw – 5.7-1 – NCurses libraries with wide char support
openssl – 0.9.7m-5 – Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
py-usb – 0.4.1-1 – PyUSB is a native Python module written in C that provides USB access for it.
python24 – 2.4.6-2 – Python is an interpreted, interactive, object- oriented programming language.
readline – 6.1-2 – The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are
uclibc-opt – 0.9.28-13 – micro C library for embedded Linux systems
zlib – 1.2.5-1 – zlib is a library implementing the ‘deflate’ compression system
- Be sure to record the flash every time: flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable
- Modify crontab: one task that makes every minute shipping and another that clears the log every 2 hours to the minute 1
[admin@asus etc]$ pwd
/opt/etc
admin@asus etc]$ cat crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/bin
MAILTO=””
HOME=/
# ———- ———- Default is Empty ———- ———- #
*/1 * * * * admin /opt/jordi/jww/envio.sh
1 */2 * * * admin /opt/jordi/jww/borralog.sh
- Details of the scripts:
- envio.sh: (script to send the data, explained later)
[admin@asus jww]$ cat envio.sh
#!/bin/sh
wsr=”/opt/jordi/jww/wwsr”
u2=$($wsr)
url=”wget -O /dev/null http://www.weboriginal.org/new09oeo/live.php?C=colotyuor_r1$u2″
echo $url
$url
[admin@asus jww]$ cat borralog.sh
#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/syslog.log
- borrarlog.sh: (scipt that deletes the log file of submittals)
- set the red button to enable-disable wifi ez-setup in the same directory as post-boot /usr/local/sbin:
#!/bin/sh
TIMEOUT=4
if [ $(wl radio) = “0x0000” ]; then wl radio off; exit; fi
wl radio on
Development:
if (showraw==1)
{
printf(“&HI=%d&”, buf5.hindoor);
printf(“HO=%d&”, buf5.houtdoor);
remain = buf5.tindoor%10;
if ((signed) remain<0) remain = remain * -1;
printf(“TI=%d.%d&”, buf5.tindoor / 10 ,remain);
remain = buf5.toutdoor%10;
if ((signed) remain<0) remain = remain * -1;
printf(“TO=%d.%d&”, buf5.toutdoor / 10 ,remain);
remain = buf5.swind%10;
printf(“W=%d.%d&”, buf5.swind / 10 , remain);
remain = buf5.swind2%10;
printf(“G=%d.%d&”, buf5.swind2 / 10 , remain);
printf(“D=%s&”, buf5.winddirection);
printf(“R=%d&”, buf5.rain );
remain = buf5.pressure%10;
printf(“B=%d”, buf5.pressure / 10 , remain);
}
- Como he comentado, basandome en el programa creado por Michael Pendec, añadi la siguiente opción al ejecutar el programa sin parámetros:
- This causes the generation of a string of the form: &TO=15.7&TI=15.7&HO=66&HI=45&B=1024&D=NNW&W=20&R=56 that added to get the query string, as shown in the script allows us to send data every minute.
- In the hosting, I have the page live.php which processes the request i add the record in the mysql database, I leave the code example to give you an idea:
</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">
.!--?php<br />
$timezone = +0;<br />
if (substr($_GET['C'], 0, 9)=='csdfr_')<br />
{<br />
$con = mysql_connect("localhost",$_GET['C'],"password");<br />
if (!$con)<br />
{<br />
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());<br />
}<br />
$loop=gmdate("Hi", time()+ 3600*($timezone+date("I")));<br />
$hora=gmdate("H:i:s", time()+ 3600*($timezone+date("I")));<br />
mysql_select_db($_GET['C'], $con);<br />
// borro el registre anterior -<br />
$q="DELETE FROM `live` WHERE `LOOP`='".$loop."'";<br />
mysql_query($q);<br />
$raina=$_GET['R'];<br />
$pluja=0.0;<br />
<br />
// busco el valor anterior de pluja -<br />
$result = mysql_query("SELECT `RAINC` FROM `live` ORDER BY `YMDHMS` DESC LIMIT 1"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))<br />
{<br />
// - si ha plogut i vigilo el loop del contador<br />
if ($_GET['R'] >$row['RAINC'])<br />
{<br />
$pluja= ($_GET['R'] - $row['RAINC']) * 0.3;<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
$pluja=0.0;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
// insercio principal<br />
$q="INSERT INTO `live` (`TO`,`TI`,`HO`,`HI`,`BAR`,`WND`,`RAC`,`DIR`,`RAINC`,`DATE`,`TIME`,`YMDHMS`,`H10M`,`LOOP`,`RAIN`) VALUES (".<br />
$_GET['TO'].",".$_GET['TI'].",".$_GET['HO'].",".$_GET['HI'].",".$_GET['B']. ",".$_GET['W'].",".$_GET['G'].",'".$_GET['D']."',".$_GET['R'].<br />
",'".gmdate("Y-m-d", time()+ 3600*($timezone+date("I")))."','".$hora. "','".gmdate("YmdHi", time()+ 3600*($timezone+date("I"))) ."','".substr($loop,0,3) .<br />
"','".$loop."',".$pluja.")" ;<br />
mysql_query($q);<br />
mysql_close($con);<br />
// aqui cada 10 minuts , gravo els registres<br />
if(substr($loop,2,1)=="0" )<br />
{ $q="";<br />
}<br />
}<br />
//else<br />
//echo 'Error';<br />
?></p>
<p>
publication:
- The last step is to publish the data online, this is accomplished with a script “cron” which runs every 10 minutes i used to publish data on 5 sites :
- Meteoclimatic: from a template generated a meteoclimatic.html file and the configuration of the station, put the url where I created the file
- Awekas: I generate a file at the station awekas.txt i configure the url where you have to go to see
- Weather Undergroud: By sending an HTTP GET request data
- Personal Weather Stations: same as Weather underground.
- My own page
