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| [00:39:51] | <alexheiss[m]> | HI folks, I would just like to introduce myself. I am beginnning to learn about FarmOS after working with the owner of Essex Farm in upstate NY. https://essexfarmcsa.com/about-us/ The owner of the farm is quite enthusiastic about improving his practices/farm, and has been working with various programs to bring internet/connectivity to some sensors and stuff. So, just wanted to say 'Hi!'. I found FarmOS during some |
| [00:39:51] | <alexheiss[m]> | researchand am just starting to play around with it. Drupal is new to me, but I've been in Software Engineering/Ecommerce for over 15 years so can pick up things pretty quick. I've cloned the recommended fork, got a site up with farmier and am setting up my local env now. Excited to see what I find :) |
| [00:45:34] | <alexheiss[m]> | My partner dealt with all the Layer1 and Layer2 deployment at farm (had to redo it since prior implementation was not great/beneficial). I did end up burying some cables to the AP's but I'd rather go back to Layer 7 and farmOS looks promising avenue. |
| [00:47:11] | <alexheiss[m]> | Here was a story about it all on an NPR channel. http://www.wamc.org/post/senator-schumer-tours-farm-explore-link-between... |
| [00:54:41] | <alexheiss[m]> | Given my Ecommerce background, I have plenty of experience with distributed systems, web frameworks, amazon tech, streaming/event based systems, MVC systems, DB's, Inventory management, Order Management (600 orders/second at peak) , particuar familiarity with large scale logistics, last mile delivery, stock management, state machines, many other things. FarmOS looks impressive. |
| [06:08:46] | <alexheiss[m]> | Has anyone heard of Farm Beats? |
| [06:11:17] | <alexheiss[m]> | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/farmbeats-iot-agriculture/ ?? |
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| [06:32:05] | <alexheiss[m]> | Apologize if this is the wrong forum to ask, but regarding sensors - do people have a general recommendation for a particular brand? Do sensors follow some known protocol? Are there many protocals? Is RS-232 really that standard and would FarmOS support receiving data from sensors supporting RS-232? For example, it appears something like Vegetronix soil moisture sensor, can connect to it's a proprietry 'Vegehub' to |
| [06:32:05] | <alexheiss[m]> | transmit data wirelessly. Id' prefer if I could save money and build an adapter to push that sensor's data to something like FarmOS via some sort of cheaper hardware. Assuming FarmOS supports time series data of a sensor.... (still learning and reading up on FarmOS). Running the sensor, reading (possibly interpreting?) it's data, and reporting back in some normalized format, be available knowledge? |
| [06:50:22] | <alexheiss[m]> | The Farm Sensor Listener is pretty neat. Perhaps its SDI-12 between sensor and a controller, seem accurate? The controller then post to listener rest endpoints? |
| [07:22:31] | <mstenta[m]> | Hi @alexheiss:matrix.org ! |
| [07:22:43] | <mstenta[m]> | Welcome to #farmOS |
| [07:23:39] | <mstenta[m]> | @donblair:matrix.org: is working on some interesting monitoring electronics |
| [07:23:42] | <alexheiss[m]> | Thanks Michael, great to hear from you. I am excited about how I can help FarmOS, and how FarmOS could help a local farmer. |
| [07:24:23] | <mstenta[m]> | You might be interested in talking with him |
| [07:24:42] | <mstenta[m]> | Great! Yea happy to have you part of the conversations! |
| [07:25:08] | <alexheiss[m]> | Very cool, I will try to reach out to him. I just wrapped up one sensor wired up to AWS CloudWatch for alerting, then notice FarmOS has an alerting platform, very cool!!! |
| [07:25:18] | <mstenta[m]> | I won't be around today much... Rented a wood splitter so I'll be outside all day |
| [07:25:53] | <mstenta[m]> | Yea! So farmOS has a simple listener module that basically just opens up endpoints to post data to via http |
| [07:26:11] | <alexheiss[m]> | I think it was Henry Ford who said, 'Wood will heat you twice' hehehe |
| [07:26:35] | <alexheiss[m]> | How many cord to split? |
| [07:26:38] | <mstenta[m]> | It's a general solution that works pretty well, but my thought is that additional modules could be written for more specific/specialized cases |
| [07:27:03] | <mstenta[m]> | Haha yea I hope so... It's chilly this morning :-) |
| [07:27:08] | <mstenta[m]> | 35 here now |
| [07:27:37] | <mstenta[m]> | (°F) |
| [07:27:48] | <mstenta[m]> | (that's not so chilly in °C) |
| [07:28:22] | <mstenta[m]> | I've heard of Farm Beats but I don't know much about it |
| [07:29:01] | <alexheiss[m]> | You'd like modules to interpret particular vendor protocal? |
| [07:29:25] | <alexheiss[m]> | Or like some sort of normalization from many vendor to FarmOS model? |
| [07:30:06] | <alexheiss[m]> | Or module per type of sensor? |
| [07:32:53] | <alexheiss[m]> | Since I'm responsible to be sure internet connectivity/wifi is working at the farm, I wrote a monitor to ensure it was up. THis is sort of the backbone to many possibilities on farm. We cover maybe 500 of 1200 acre so far with great wifi reception. |
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| [07:34:40] | <alexheiss[m]> | Alerts if it stops reporting.... |
| [07:34:57] | <mstenta[m]> | Any of the above |
| [07:35:03] | <mstenta[m]> | Depending on what's needed |
| [07:35:35] | <mstenta[m]> | I figured starting with a simple general module that data could be posted to would cover most cases |
| [07:36:00] | <mstenta[m]> | That's awesome @alexheiss:matrix.org !! |
| [07:36:04] | <alexheiss[m]> | Wouldn't the 'listener' already do that for the sensors, it gave some sort of dynamic url to post to |
| [07:36:05] | <mstenta[m]> | Love the UI! |
| [07:36:29] | <alexheiss[m]> | Heh, thank Amazon. How about all your time series data auto hoooked to that UI? |
| [07:36:36] | <mstenta[m]> | Yes... Sorry my messages might be a little delayed. Using my phone... |
| [07:36:47] | <alexheiss[m]> | By name space, or category or whatever |
| [07:37:11] | <alexheiss[m]> | Gotcha |
| [07:39:28] | <alexheiss[m]> | I'll hone in on that listener and see what's going on. Maybe I can propose a way to have generic module report the data to AWS for those intererested in that... Could try to make cloud-vendor agnostic, or at least start to model it that way... |
| [07:40:08] | <mstenta[m]> | That would be awesome! |
| [07:40:19] | <alexheiss[m]> | Unless we feel the reporting/alerting of FarmOS is good enuf? |
| [07:40:25] | <alexheiss[m]> | Or worth improving? |
| [07:40:54] | <alexheiss[m]> | The AWS integration would be super fun for me, possibly helpful to you and a great way to learn |
| [07:42:25] | <alexheiss[m]> | Anyways, I'll let you get to work Michael. Great stuff you got here, I wish I knew Drupal but doesn't look too bad. Got my local dev environment up... The docker-compose didn't work quite right but I think it's my env |
| [07:43:19] | <alexheiss[m]> | Troubles starting up the DB, either one - mysql or postgres.. different issues either way, but im like ubuntu on windows rn |
| [07:44:28] | <mstenta[m]> | Lots to talk about! Let me get back to you tonight or tomorrow after splitting day :-) |
| [07:44:32] | <alexheiss[m]> | So just downloaded this Acquia and that was super easy. Want that process added to docs? |
| [07:44:42] | <mstenta[m]> | I can fill you in on where things stand in farmOS |
| [07:44:49] | <mstenta[m]> | Definitely worth exploring integrations |
| [07:45:18] | <alexheiss[m]> | Sounds good Michael. Enjoy and stay safe! |
| [07:45:29] | <mstenta[m]> | Thanks! Looking forward to talking! |
| [07:49:04] | <alexheiss[m]> | Same here :) Make sure your hands stay around, they are pretty valuable |
| [08:34:57] | <mstenta[m]> | Haha agreed. Will do. :-) |
| [08:41:01] | <dornawcox[m]> | Welcome Alex! Re: Farm Beats - I have been in touch Ranveer Chandra who is heading the work - but not much in the lasy 6 months. I have been hoping to test a prototype of their system but he has not sent one out yet. |
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