TUI Front end is a work in progress!
For building for an RPi 5 running raspbian kernel release 6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712 / kernel version #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.63-1+rpt1 (2023-11-24), I am using rust target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, and have separately installed the aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc toolchain (version 11.4.0), building on Ubuntu.
To build the current plant-minder example bin, use the following:
cargo build --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --bin plant-minder --release
For older versions of the RPi you may need to use a different target (like armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) and the appropriate gcc toolchain. Make sure that your gcc toolchain is at the same path specified in this crate's .cargo/config.toml file, or modify the config file according to your needs.
Currently only very simple functionality is implemented. There is a simple asynchronous rendering of live sensor readings. There is a landing page that displays the general state of each plant (E.g. if it needs to be watered or not). With keyboard input, a user can use tab/backtab to scroll through historical views of data displaying moisture, temperature, lux, or full spetrum luminsoity readings. These readings are rendered as graphs are displayed by node, and you can scroll through each node's view (by scrolling up or down). The below shows example output from the pi (via ssh session) that currently has a number of child nodes reporting their plant name, moisture, temp, full spectrum light (as lumens) and lux. This shows the landing page:
This shows a rendering of moisture over time:
Logs will be output to a logs dir, with daily rolling, and max level set to debug. To modify this, see pmindd/src/bin/main.rs
- historical trend graph rendering
- Better configurable logging, more command-line-specifyable args!
- Log zip/roll functionality so we dont take up too much space with old logs
- Loads of other stuff