windsonic

Setup

The windsonic 2d anenometer is connected through a serial to usb converter to my linux machine. For the usb port, we first find out where the device is connected. To do that, we first look up all the devices connected through USB

lsusb

Now, we need to find out where our device PL2303 is connected. To find out, we can do the following

dmesg | grep tty

To get the data, we can listen to /dev/ttyUSB0. On some machines, we need to change the owner on /dev/ttyUSB0 to avoid using super user.

Testing

For testing, we need to first setup a docker container. To setup a docker container, I used the step described for virtual waggle.

To ease the setup, I have added a Makefile which simplifies the usage. The steps to setup and test the plugin are:

Build the container

make build

To deploy the container in background

make deploy

To test the plugin

make interactive

If everything goes correctly, we should be able to test the plugin.

Note, we needed to expose /dev/ttyUSB0 to docker container to read the data inside the docker container.