SolarBerry Monitoring System

The SolarBerry Monitoring System is a Raspberry Pi-based Monitoring Tool designed to report and educate on the state of the SolarBerry, an off-grid computer laboratory, currently under development in Malawi

This project is currently a work-in-progress

Features

TODO

Components:

Server

This talks to the Arduino, requests data, broadcasts it out to front-end and logs to the db (Python)

Arduino

This handles communication with the sensors and controls the LCD display (Arduino C)

Front-end

This is the web front-end that displays all of this data and also links back to the educational content (JS/HTML/CSS)

Additional Components

SQL

DDL for the database

Cron

Runs periodically and clears out the db (as every metric is logged, there will be a rapid build-up of data here)

rc.local entries

Controls running on boot

rtc/nts config

TODO - document this

Installation - This is a work in progress!!!

Step 1 - Create Database

mysql -u root -P '<password>' < config/solarberrydb.sql

Step 2 - Create Cron jobs

crontab -w ... TODO

Step 3 - Setup rc.local entries

TODO

Step 4 - Create symlink from web directory

ln -s <TODO>

Troubleshooting

Licensing

The SolarBerry Monitoring System is licensed under the GNU GPL. Please see LICENSE.txt for full details.

If this license is unsuited to your application, please contact the developer for alternative licensing options.