Documentation on Sensor Pipe prototypes for use with DustTrak
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For the first few prototypes of using Sensor Pipe for DustTrak, the following directions apply.
Set up the Dust Track
- Go to the Analog settings and set the lower bound to 0 mg/m3 and the upper bound to 0.1 mg/m3
- When figuring out how to wire up the connector ... see the attached picture (from the Dust Trak manual, here). The arrows in the pdf are displaced rightward a little, but if shifted left would refer properly to the appropriate pins. Then, on the actual Dust Trak model we received, the entire output connector was rotated 180 degrees; but the pin assignment on the connector still remained true, relative to its own geometry (there's a simpler way of saying this, I'm sure): i.e.: the connections which were on the left end up on the right. I think you'll get it immediately. The cable is a '4-pin, mini-DIN connector'. Might be avail at Radio Shack, or equivalent?
Set up Fido with DustTrak
- Plug Fido blue wire into top right pin on DustTrak
- Plug Fido yellow wire into bottom right pin on DustTrak
- Plug Fido Micro USB power into USB power supply on DustTrak
- Configure the WiFi (or just connect Fido and Router via Ethernet)
- Use Ethernet chord to connect Fido Pi Ethernet port and your Wifi Router
- Plug in Fido Pi's USB power supply
- Wait 5 minutes
- Go to local Fido App (see URL below)
- Click on the gear icon in the top right
- Enter data in the WiFi SSID and Wifi Password fields
- Select WiFi Security type
- Click the save button at the bottom
- Wait 1 minute
- Unplug Fido's power and ethernet chord
- Plug Fido back into power supply without having the Ethernet connected
- Wait 5 minutes
- Verify data is flowing in on the local Fido App
- Verify new data is going to local Hive server
- Verify new data is going to online Hive server
Set up Fido with DustTrak
- Plug Fido blue wire into top right pin on DustTrak
- Plug Fido yellow wire into bottom right pin on DustTrak
- Plug Fido Micro USB power into USB power supply on DustTrak
- Configure the WiFi (or just connect Fido and Router via Ethernet)
- Use Ethernet chord to connect Fido Pi Ethernet port and your Wifi Router
- Plug in Fido Pi's USB power supply
- Wait 5 minutes
- Go to local Fido App (see URL below)
- Click on the gear icon in the top right
- Enter data in the WiFi SSID and Wifi Password fields
- Select WiFi Security type
- Click the save button at the bottom
- Wait 1 minute
- Unplug Fido's power and ethernet chord
- Plug Fido back into power supply without having the Ethernet connected
- Wait 5 minutes
- Verify data is flowing in on the local Fido App
- Verify new data is going to local Hive server
- Verify new data is going to online Hive server
grove4
- Online Hive server: view the data online
- Data graphed as parts per thousand
- Local Hive Server: view the data while connected to the LAN (Linux and Mac only)
- Data graphed as parts per thousand
- Local Hive App: Configure the WiFi and see live values (Linux and Mac only)
grove3
- Online Hive server: view the data online
- Data graphed as parts per thousand
- Local Hive Server: view the data while connected to the LAN (Linux and Mac only)
- Data graphed as parts per thousand
- Local Hive App: Configure the WiFi and see live values (Linux and Mac only)
- Data shows up in Celsius but is not Celsius, more software work to be done