PiPlanter | Going from analog data to the web using python, mysql and php

Here’s a video:

Essentially, the adc reads an analog value and sends it to python. Python connects to a mysql database and adds the data to that. Once the user accesses the php script, a table, containing all of the values, is rendered.
First of all, you’ll need to make a mysql table with the correct specifications:

This creates a table that is found in the python script so it is very important that the TABLE values match as well as the column names.
Here’s that python script:

This reads the values from the adc (it is wired up as seen in this post)
Here’s the php, it reads the values from the adc_input_data_10 table on the adc_database.

This is all very preliminary stuff, and I’ll tighten up the code as time goes on.
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PiPlanter | Graphing With PHP 2

This is a much more refined version of that graph I created earlier.

This one is much more detailed, and the sizes of the graph can easily be controlled with the imageSizeX and Y Vals.

This program will render:

This image:

And by modifying the values mentioned above to:

You will get this image:

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PiPlanter | Graphing With PHP

Again, short post. This php code:

will produce this graph:

I learned this using this resource:

http://phpmaster.com/charting-with-pchart/

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PiPlanter | Interfacing an ADC, Python, and MySQL [Documentation]

As this post is more of an update, I won’t be adding any explanations, just giving the python code.

This will read 3 values from the adc and put them into the database “adc_database”. It will put them in the table “adc_input_data_4” in the columns “Channel_1″,”Channel_2” and “Channel_3” respectively.

There you go, bigger post coming later tonight.

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Simple ADC with Raspberry Pi using MCP3008

Hello!

So for my own benefit, here’s the steps you need to take to get analog inputs working with a Raspberry Pi.

I’m grabbing most of this from: http://scruss.com/blog/2013/02/02/simple-adc-with-the-raspberry-pi/

The first thing you’ll need is an MCP3008. Using jumper wires, hook it up to your pi using this diagram.

Power your RPi up and run the following commands to get it all set up.

First thing’s first, you’ll need to enable SPI in the kernel so:

Comment out the spi-bcm2708 line so it looks like this:

Then run this to make it more permanent.

Now for the real meat of it. You’ll need these packages for SPI and the WiringPi library makes things a whole lot easier for us.

Now everything should be good to go, now for the python.

You can debug this any way you like, but my favorite way to do it is using the program geany. I like to start up a VNC server with root so I don’t get into any trouble with the GPIO permissions.

But here’s the program.

And that’s pretty much it, the result should look something like this:

There you go!

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