Hi,
I am trying to build a new reporter that works with sMap. What I have figured out so far is that I have to add a new class which derives from EmonHubReporter and to override the functions:
__init__
set
_process_post
in this class. Also, I have to edit the emonhub.conf file and add the reporter there.
Once I have done this, I would like to be able to send some random data to emonhub (in the correct format: unixtimestamp,nodeid, [data1, data2..]), in order to debug my new reporter. Any suggestions on how I could accomplish this?
P.S I am new to Python, but have a lot of experience with Java and C#.
Thanks in advance
Re: How to simulate data sent from EmonTx to EmonHub in order to debug a reporter?
The easiest way to create a simple testing script is to define a socketinterfacer in emonhub.conf (a thread on using EmonHubSocketInterfacer) then you have an open port listening for data which you can then use one or more test script to test emonhub.
I use them quite a lot I have a folder full of "one-shot" scripts I can just fire as I need or you could use a send and sleep loop to send a hard-coded packet or even incrementing values.
In the example in the linked thread the line "frame = "10 1 2 3 4"" can be anything that results in a nodeid val1 val2 val3 ...... string or "frame". By default the unix timestamp is automatically added upon receipt, but it can be defined in emonhub.conf to accept a pre-timestamped frame by using "timestamped=True" in the socketinterfacers runtimesettings.
I hope that works for you if you need more info just holla'
Paul
Re: How to simulate data sent from EmonTx to EmonHub in order to debug a reporter?
Nice solution and thanks for the script in the other thread :)