[12:00] <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
[12:01] <zoopster> I have a cool new power meter and a slick little USB stick that can pull data from said meter.
[12:04] <zoopster> I want to take the data and put it into a readable format - JSON maybe?
[12:09] <zoopster> the stick is pumping out data via /dev/ttyACM0 and the data is formatted in a single line $UMSCM, 61643840, 7, 353080*59
[12:13] <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
[12:14] <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.
[13:12] <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"
[17:41] <zoopster> damn quiet in here...I guess a lot were affected by the brighthouse failure earlier?
[17:44] <ropetin> Nope just busy
[17:44] <ropetin> Also, hello
[21:25] <mhall119> zoopster: I got hit by the brighouse outage
[21:37] <zoopster> mhall119: sure wish they would not upgrade core equipment during peak hours
[21:41] <jamalta> There was a brighthouse outage?
[21:41] <jamalta> zoopster: wow.. agreed.
[21:42] <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
[21:43] <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...
[21:44] <zoopster> it affected EVERYTHING TCP/IP
[21:44] <zoopster> what's interesting is none of the DOCSIS functions were affected, but everything else was
[21:45] <zoopster> tells me they are still well behind in upgrading infrastructure....still living in the 19th century like most telcos
[23:48] <zoopster> quiet, quiet, quiet...anyone want to help me with python, pyserial and plucking data from a serial stream?