| zoopster | hey, hey all you ubuntu experts...ok the question isn't really ubuntu specific...but I have a request and I know the smart folks here can throw me a bone | 12:00 |
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| zoopster | I have a cool new power meter and a slick little USB stick that can pull data from said meter. | 12:01 |
| zoopster | I want to take the data and put it into a readable format - JSON maybe? | 12:04 |
| zoopster | the stick is pumping out data via /dev/ttyACM0 and the data is formatted in a single line $UMSCM, 61643840, 7, 353080*59 | 12:09 |
| zoopster | $UMSCM is a std consumption msg, 61643480 is my meter serial #, 7 is a meter type, 353080 is the actual register data, * is the end of data, and 59 is a checksum | 12:13 |
| zoopster | let me know if someone can help with how to pull this info as it comes and spit it out so I can "monitor" usage. | 12:14 |
| zoopster | heh...cool...figured out how to read my serial port data using python and pySerial...nice. Now to figure out how to read the stream constantly and pick out what I need... | 13:12 |
| zoopster | just writing "out loud" | 13:12 |
| zoopster | damn quiet in here...I guess a lot were affected by the brighthouse failure earlier? | 17:41 |
| ropetin | Nope just busy | 17:44 |
| ropetin | Also, hello | 17:44 |
| mhall119 | zoopster: I got hit by the brighouse outage | 21:25 |
| zoopster | mhall119: sure wish they would not upgrade core equipment during peak hours | 21:37 |
| jamalta | There was a brighthouse outage? | 21:41 |
| jamalta | zoopster: wow.. agreed. | 21:41 |
| zoopster | yea...they blamed a power outage then came clean that it was a software problem...which tells me that they upgraded some core routers and caused the failure | 21:42 |
| zoopster | it was a routing issue of some sort because I started getting all kinds of routing errors trying to track down why I could not get any DNS response | 21:43 |
| zoopster | and they started falling like dominoes... | 21:43 |
| zoopster | it affected EVERYTHING TCP/IP | 21:44 |
| zoopster | what's interesting is none of the DOCSIS functions were affected, but everything else was | 21:44 |
| zoopster | tells me they are still well behind in upgrading infrastructure....still living in the 19th century like most telcos | 21:45 |
| zoopster | quiet, quiet, quiet...anyone want to help me with python, pyserial and plucking data from a serial stream? | 23:48 |
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