Hi everyone,
First of all I would like to congratulate Felix for the amazing job done creating Moteino and specially his dedication to teach others by building this website, youtube videos, etc.
I have a similar system build on my own, but I must admit its far more basic although its nice to see very close similarities in some aspects.
I have developed everything based on http requests, either by ESP8266 directly to my NAS, or by xbee communication to a raspberry pi which performs the http requests (via python).
I was wondering if there is any document, video or any kind of explanation of how all your setup works. Something like a flowchart showing which nodes perform http requests or websocket connection or serial rf sending...etc. how are the python scripts called, etc etc
I am in the process of learning websockets and deciding how to include this more advanced system in my setup.
Any info is greatly appreciated.
Regards.
Hi Sergegsx,
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the compliments.
All the information related to this framework are and will be posted on the dedicated "Gateway" page (http://lowpowerlab.com/gateway).
I don't think I have such specific documentation, but part of the guide and install I try to explain how everything works and interacts. I plan to enhance this page and add more documentation once I free up from other projects I have going on.
My architecture is pretty simple. The hardware is composed of a gateway based on RaspberryPi, which sits on the local LAN at a dedicated address and has a "gateway Moteino" that is the relay to the remote wireless nodes that can control things or report sensors/metrics. The gateway Moteino is attached via serial (either GPIO or USB) and talks to the main gateway application, gateway.js which acts as a relay between the web and the Moteino framework of nodes via secured websockets for real time updates. The sample definitions for sample hardware I offer is included in metrics.js and settings for email/sms and database are stored in settings.js. I just released a new version of it which can allow you to add non-moteino based nodes and communicate to IP based nodes like ESP8266 via a REST HTTP interface using the nodeJS request module. This is mentioned in this recent blog post (http://lowpowerlab.com/blog/2015/09/23/gateway-software-update-v6/). I know this is a very big picture but I hope it helps. The core application logic is included in the following files: gateway.js, metrics.js, index.php, which you can check out at this [urlhttps://github.com/LowPowerLab/RaspberryPi-Gateway]Github repo[/url].
Best,
-Felix