Re-publish RF433 data from a weather station to MQTT with an SDR USB dongle

Thanks to a 433MHz USB dongle and some folks on the web who wrote nice tools, it is pretty easy to collect and interpret the radio data send from my 60€ Aliexpress weather station to its base station, and re-publish them on a MQTT broker.

Oh, and it runs on a sngle-board computer like a Raspberry, a Beagle Bone or an Orange PI.

We need rtl-sdr to talk to the SDR USB radio, and rtl_433 to interpret and publish it as MQTT (it even knows already about the data format for this weather station).

NGINX configuration block to run any fastcgi bash, perl, python scripts

NGINX configuration block to run fastcgi scripts by their shebangs

This configuration will use the shebang at the start of the script to select the proper interpreter.

''

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/$(basename $0).lock
[ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0
trap "{ rc=$?; rm -f $LOCKFILE ; exit $rc; }" EXIT
touch $LOCKFILE

''

''I had to be able to run bash, perl and other kinds of CGI programs but found it difficult to gather all the bits on nginx + fastcgi.

Do not forget to install ''apt install fcgiwrap'' for the generic tool, not the one for PHP.

''

# Bash, perl ... CGI scripts

# Make sure to allow them in this setting of /etc/php/*/fpm/pool.d/www.conf:

#    security.limit_extensions = .sh .py .pl .cgi .exe .php

location ~ ^/cgi.*(\.cgi|\.py|\.sh|\.pl)$ {

root /home/www/cgi-bin;

# Check if CGI script exists

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.sh)(/.*)$;

try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;

# Remove /cgi-bin/ or /cgi/ prefix in path

rewrite ^/cgi(-bin)?/(.*) /$2 break;

# Set parameters

include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/www/cgi-bin$fastcgi_script_name;

# apt install fcgiwrap

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;

}

''

Here is a minimalist example of a CGI script made with bash. Just do not forget to return proper HTTP data else you will end up with an error that tells ''upstream prematurely closed FastCGI stdout while reading response header from upstream''):

''

#!/bin/bash
printf "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n"
printf "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"

printenv | grep ^HTTP_ 

echo "Query string is $QUERY_STRING"

''

Open Web Analytics for Dokuwiki

Customized PHP header for Open Web Analytics best suited to dokuwiki :

''<?php

$actionkind=@$_GET['do'];

if($actionkind=='') $actionkind='page';

if($actionkind=='page' || $actionkind=='search') {

        require_once('/var/www/stats.mysite.com/owa_php.php');

        $owa = new owa_php();

        $owa->setSiteId('4bda91f72a70c48a2ad1d6cdc11523af');

        $owa->setPageTitle(tpl_pagetitle(null,true));

        $owa->setPageType($actionkind);

//      if(@$_GET['q']!="") $owa->setSearchTerms(@$_GET['q']);

        // Set other page properties

        //$owa->setProperty('foo', 'bar');

        $owa->trackPageView();

}

?>''

It helps sorts the collected data and avoids logging administrative accesses. Note that I did not investigate further to make the "search terms" work Dokuwiki ''q'' argument.

Profile gcc code and produce a graphical tree

Obviously compile with profile, then use ''gprof'' and ''dot'':

''

gprof myprog.bin | gprof2dot.py -s | dot -Tpng -o profiler.png && gwenview profiler.png

''

Simple MQTT handler in bash

How to subscribe to an MQTT topic efficiently in bash.

This is hosted on a Raspberry Pi which controls a pool pump via a solid state relay on GPIO 4, and these topics :

• /pool/pump/action 0  # Command, set externally (subscribed)
• /pool/pump/state  1  # Feedback state (published)

''

#!/bin/bash -feu

set -o pipefail

mqtt()

{

action="$1"

shift

"mosquitto_${action}" -h 192.168.1.1 -p 8833 -t "$@"

}

handler()

{

new_state=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/[^01]//g')

[[ -z "$new_state" ]] && new_state="0"

if /usr/local/bin/gpio_out.sh 4 "$new_state"; then

echo "pump state change OK, now $new_state"

else

echo "ERROR: pump state change fail towards $new_state"

fi

# Ping back

real_state=$(cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio4/value)

mqtt pub '/pool/pump/state' -m "$real_state" -r

}

export -f mqtt

export -f handler

action={1-}

cfg=$(basename $0 .sh).service

if [[ $action = 'stop' ]]; then

systemctl stop $cfg

elif [[ $action = 'start' ]]; then

systemctl restart $cfg

elif [[ $action = 'install' ]]; then

cat > /etc/systemd/system/$cfg << EOF

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]

Restart=always

RestartSec=3

ExecStart=$(realpath $0)

#Type=simple

#Restart=on-failure

EOF

systemctl daemon-reload &&

systemctl restart $cfg &&

systemctl enable $cfg

else # here is the deal

# Run only once

LOCK_FILE="/var/lock/$(basename $0 .sh).lock"

exec 9> "$LOCK_FILE" && flock -n 9 || exit 5

trap "rm -f '$LOCK_FILE'; logger 'Stopped $0 watcher on $(date)'" EXIT

logger "Started $0 watcher on $(date)"

# Wait for orders

mqtt sub '/pool/pump/action' |\

xargs -n 1 -I {} /bin/bash -c 'handler "$@"' _ {}

fi

''

This small script embeds its own ''systemd'' config, just run it with ''install' as the sole parameter.

Install CH552 support for platformio (and CH5xx variants) with ch5xduino support

https://community.platformio.org/t/platformio-8051-model-medium-linker-err/18099

''

mkdir ~/.platformio/boards

cd ~/.platformio/boards

cat > ch55xduino.json << 'EOF'

{

  "build": {    

    "f_cpu": "24000000",

    "size_iram": 256,

    "size_xram": 1024,

    "size_code": 14336,

    "size_heap": 128,

    "mcu": "ch552t",

    "cpu": "mcs51"

  },

  "frameworks": [],

  "upload": {

    "maximum_ram_size": 1280,

    "maximum_size": 14336,

    "protocol": "stcgal",

    "stcgal_protocol": "stc15",

    "protocols": [

      "stcgal"

    ]

  },

  "name": "Generic CH552",

  "url": "http://www.wch.cn/product/CH552.html",

  "vendor": "WCH"

}

EOF

platformio boards|grep ch5xduino

cd

mkdir myproj552

cd myproj552

platformio init --board ch55xduino

cat > platformio.ini <<'EOF'

[env:ch552]

platform = intel_mcs51

board = ch552

build_flags =

  --model-medium

  --LC:/Users/caoyf/.platformio/packages/toolchain-sdcc/lib/medium

  -IC:

  -IC:/Users/caoyf/Documents/PlatformIO/Projects/ch552_gpio/src/Driver/inc

  -Isrc/PLAT/inc

extra_scripts = link_medium.py
'EOF'

cat > link_medium.py

Import("env")

env.Append(LINKFLAGS=["--model-medium"])

''

Install KiCad 5.1 on xubuntu (no-brainer since the packages are somehow broken)

Big mess. The easiest is to get rid of everything and not rely entirely on the Debian packages. I had to gather some info around and I ended up with the following.

Beware, all existing kicad executable and configuration will be wiped out, as I think that 5.1 does not play well with former versions. Especially, libraries and footprints do not show up after installation. This also makes it annoying to import a former KiCad project in 5.1. I had none so I "simply" started from blank projects, as KiCad is much easier to design new packages and footprint than Eagle CAD I was using so far.