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rcrum003 / HiveControl

Alternative software for use with HiveTool suite of software.
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Clearer Instruction #71

Open ABB6903 opened 4 years ago

ABB6903 commented 4 years ago

What you've been working on here is AWESOME! I'm hoping that you or someone might be able to provide a bit more of a detailed instruction set. I know much of your work relies on HiveTool, and honestly, their website and info is TOUGH to navigate if you're a semi-novice and much of it seems out of date. I'm a beekeeper first and like tinkering with the electronics of it, but some clearer instructions about how to setup their interface board with GPIO settings and such would be awesome. Even if you threw out some things to try! I think we'd get more beekeepers trying some of these pi sensors and such. Anyway, thanks for the work you're doing!!

rcrum003 commented 4 years ago

So clearer instructions on how to setup the hardware?

What hardware do you have? Do you have their interface board or just random sensors.

Are you looking for information on how to build a scale?

Ryan

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What you've been working on here is AWESOME! I'm hoping that you or someone might be able to provide a bit more of a detailed instruction set. I know much of your work relies on HiveTool, and honestly, their website and info is TOUGH to navigate if you're a semi-novice and much of it seems out of date. I'm a beekeeper first and like tinkering with the electronics of it, but some clearer instructions about how to setup their interface board with GPIO settings and such would be awesome. Even if you threw out some things to try! I think we'd get more beekeepers trying some of these pi sensors and such. Anyway, thanks for the work you're doing!!

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ABB6903 commented 4 years ago

Ryan, thanks so much for the quick reply! I have their interface board and the DHT22, LUX, and load cells that came with it. I feel confident about my ability to setup the hardware, but am struggling with the configurations in the software, like the GPIO pins and other settings for the DHT22, the lux sensor seems to be working. Took me a while to figure out how to get to http://127.0.0.1/admin/ ! I know... I'm definitely at the novice level!!!

rcrum003 commented 4 years ago

Alright, I’ll work on some basic instructions for their board.

This one page at Hivetool is useful http://wiki.hivetool.org/Hardware:_Hive_Interface_Board_1.0 http://wiki.hivetool.org/Hardware:_Hive_Interface_Board_1.0

I believe the GPO for the DHT22 is either going to be 2 or 3.

I would set it to 2, then hit the read sensor button in the instrument config page, if you get a value, then you got the right value. If no value, select 3.

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Ryan, thanks so much for the quick reply! I have their interface board and the DHT22, LUX, and load cells that came with it. I feel confident about my ability to setup the hardware, but am struggling with the configurations in the software, like the GPIO pins and other settings for the DHT22, the lux sensor seems to be working. Took me a while to figure out how to get to http://127.0.0.1/admin/ http://127.0.0.1/admin/ ! I know... I'm definitely at the novice level!!!

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ABB6903 commented 4 years ago

Hey! 3 Worked! Little things like that I just couldn't quite figure out from the instructions that you posted (which were the only ones I could find.) Thank you so much for your quick response. That was really helpful and much appreciated!!

rcrum003 commented 4 years ago

Got it, after awhile we do take things for granted. I’ll work on flushing out the wiki some more. Like all developers, some times the documentation is a little lacking.

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Hey! 3 Worked! Little things like that I just couldn't quite figure out from the instructions that you posted (which were the only ones I could find.) Thank you so much for your quick response. That was really helpful and much appreciated!!

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ABB6903 commented 4 years ago

Thanks so much! I'm also happy to help if I can. As someone who isn't a programmer I could help with instructions or feedback (I can completely understand how explaining your work to basic users wouldn't be the most fun part of the project!) I really do appreciate your quick response though and hope you are well.

catalinalb commented 4 years ago

Hi, I would like to connect my HX711 to the raspberry pi. I have seen somewhere GPIO30 and GPIO31 but they don´t exist. Can you provide the info on where to connect the HX711 on the raspberry?

Thank you, Catalin