Our release software is done. It’s been in final test for the past week now. Here is the list of issues and latest additions.
As of today (02/19/14), the current state of the software in Project Curacao is as follows:
– Arduino Battery Watchdog:
- Control of the wind turbine (selection between solar and turbine). The Battery Watchdog turns the solar off and the wind turbine on at sunset and turns the solar on at sunrise. This is time based and not luminosity based. We will add more smarts to the Pi to look at cloudy days (via luminosity and color sensors) after the system is deployed to Curacao (to be deployed in early March, 2014).
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| RasPiConnect Screen modified for Wind/Solar Selection |
– Project Curacao Pi main program: The main program is generating all the graphs, camera pictures, environment sensing as required. It is also regulating the Fan automatically now. Reading log files from the Arduino Watchdog. Next things to be implemented:
- Improving sensor error detection (Vastly improved, but still needs more). We still have an issue with the DHT22 sensor (Humidity Spike as shown below from RasPiConnect). We believe that we will have to buckle down and figure out the checksum to detect these. This is a Pi software problem, so we can do it after deployment.
– RasPiConnect: Complete. We use this all the time now to monitor what is going on in the project remotely.
Here’s the newest main screen (1 of 6 at this point):
