Python with Raspberry Pi & Arduino
Remote Monitoring
Here is an interesting example of what you can do with the RadioBlock. We've mentioned before the Arduino library, so you can easily send data from an Arduino to another device.
That other device can be something like a Raspberry Pi. The RadioBlock will plug directly into the Raspberry Pi, and since it runs Python you can easily communicate with the RadioBlock. Combine that with Twilio (and twilio-python) to have your Raspberry Pi send (or receive) SMS messages. Now you have an ability to monitor or control many devices on your network from both network & your mobile phone.
And notice that the RadioBlock here is working with both a 5V (Arduino) & 3.3V (Raspberry Pi) device. Life is easy.
Here is the source Python on the Raspberry Pi: http://pastebin.com/cr4uWX0n , and the source Arduino code: http://pastebin.com/nxDETyES
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On another note: we are looking for people to contribute to both our Arduino library & the Python library. If you have extensive experience in either of those please contact us - we'd like to sponsor someone with a few boards to help jump-start the development. Be sure to include some links or examples of other work you've done.
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Comments
Creator Axel Wachtler on September 16, 2012
Chris, the paper looks interesting. On Erics nodes runs a very simple stack, that is much more generic and much simpler than even 15.4 (and it can route, 15.4 has just star topologie). There is in fact no coordinator as far as I understand. The idea is, that the user "knows" the devices that he has installed. In so far all the knowledge of installed nodes could be stored in a table on the r-pi. The r-pi then collects the temperatures, voltages, whatever if it receives updates from the node (because the node usually is sleeping and awakes from time to time and issues the measured sensor data to the r-pi-node) -
r-pi acts as one agent (client), answering the queries from the managers (server) with the cached
data from the sensors.
Creator Chris LaMothe on September 16, 2012
I agree with both of your. I probably should elaborate on my comment. SNMP has quite a few tools already built for it. 802.15.4 being a non-IP network would need a way to translate in such a way that you could use those tools.. I don't believe it makes sense to push IP over the 802.15.4 network. Instead having a point where ethernet does exist and creating the Mib there. Ideally the raspberry pi could take the place of the MCU in this example.. http://csfnau.kiev.ua/kipz/ua/ROMANIA/papers/049%20-%20053%20-%20Vancea.pdf
Creator Axel Wachtler on September 16, 2012
> switch to SNMP should be easy going
not as easy as I thought on the first look - the API seems a bit of a moving target, could not bring the examples to run on the fly ... investigating ... :-)
Creator Axel Wachtler on September 15, 2012
@Chris - to switch to SNMP should be easy going, all you need to do is using pysnmp instead of twilio.
I just browsed over the sources at http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net/ it seems to be pure Python code that should be directly runable on the r-pi.
Creator Eric Gnoske on September 15, 2012
I am not a network engineer so I'll defer to you Chris!
The reason we invented RadioBlocks and SimpleMesh is because we found ZigBee to be a great big marketing hype campaign along with a great big stack along with a great big cost to deploy - It isn't public so you need to pay to use the ZigBee moniker - If you can ever get that thing to market.
Back in the old days we did write a 6LowPan layer and connect using UDPv6 to get a node on the IPv6 network. We are witholding our judgement on running IP on top of tiny microcontroller. That said, in the configuration in the video the IP networking stack is running on the Raspberry device where there is a lot of support for things like SNMP - Seems like a good idea to me (but see my disclaimer in the first sentence)...
Creator Chris LaMothe on September 15, 2012
I like what you are doing with the event detection. I am right now trying to adapt a Zigbee mesh network to a Raspberry pi in order to log temperature sensors. I'd also like to meaure various power usage points with non-contact current sensors. I am a network engineer and wonder if using SNMP might be beneficial.