Thanks for the great information. I'm going to have to get around to trying this on my 512 Pi. Right now I have it streaming 1080 video from my NAS with no issues at all using Raspbmc. Some folks with the 256 version have issues streaming so you may be correct with your assessment of memory and performance of Mango. Also as you pointed out, voltage supply to the Pi is critical to good performance. Many people without meters are astonished to see their "5V supply" is running much less, especially under load.

I am amazed you are doing all this in an apartment! Good job.

I have the Pi case from Sparkfun in the US. It has the opening for the GPIO pins and is a good cheap case. I must be available on your side of the pond.

Too many projects and ideas floating around in my head and garage...........

Mike

I've been thinking of doing a minimal Mango installation on a raspi as well. If it works I can shut down my 24/7desktop and save some electricity.

What OS version are you using? Is it all running off the SD card? Please describe your setup a little more......please!

The Raspi is an amazing little device for 35 bucks. Currently using one as a media center with Raspbmc and it's working pretty well.

Thanks,

Mike

Can you clarify your system a little bit more? The arduino is running Window 7 or your arduino is communicating to a Windows 7 PC?

I have a PC "on" 24/7 and would like to reduce my electrical footprint drastically. I now have a wireless printer, so there is no need to have my PC on other than hosting Mango for data collection of various systems. So I've been looking at other options such as Foxconn Atom D425 like this :

http://www.amazon.com/Foxconn-1-8GHz-Booksize-Barebone-NT435H-0H0W-B-A-NA/dp/B005F0MDNW

I have always benn interested in the arduino, so if that can be a solution, I like that.

Or, if any one is running (or has an opinion) Mango on a booksize PC like above, I would be interested in your comments as well.

thanks,

Mike

There are many good examples in this forum. Look under the"stories"or "how to" sections. Your questions is very generic and would be best answered by spending some time reading. Pretty much everything you need to know is here.

I stumbled on the CAI WebControl I/O board on another forum. it is an exceptional value at $34.00. 8 TTL out, 8 digital in, 3 analog in, 1-wire temperature (non-parasite power and very voltage sensitive), and humidity sensor input, microprocessor with PLC or Boolean 4000 line of code possible. Order on Amazon.com

Hooks up to your LAN via standard TCP/IP. I can access it internally on any computer on the LAN or remotely off site with appropriate router settings.

I have it interfaced with Mango retrieving data with HTTP Retreiver data source. Took me awhile of googling to find the xml. It is not documented for some reason in the manual.

http://www.redhillnetworks.com/products/webcontrol/index.html

Latest firmware also reportedly handles X-10 output by using two of the DO and an RF transmitter (310 mhz in US). I am very excited about this since Mango never did implement X-10. I have not tried this yet.

Here is a screen shot of data source retreiving temperature sensor 1 data:

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I stumbled on the CAI WebControl I/O board on another forum. it is an exceptional value at $34.00. 8 TTL out, 8 digital in, 3 analog in, 1-wire temperature (non-parasite power and very voltage sensitive), and humidity sensor input, microprocessor with PLC or Boolean 4000 line of code possible. Order on Amazon.com

Hooks up to your LAN via standard TCP/IP. I can access it internally on any computer on the LAN or remotely off site with appropriate router settings.

I have it interfaced with Mango retrieving data with HTTP Retreiver data source. Took me awhile of googling to find the xml. It is not documented for some reason in the manual.

http://www.redhillnetworks.com/products/webcontrol/index.html

Latest firmware also reportedly handles X-10 output by using two of the DO and an RF transmitter (310 mhz in US). I am very excited about this since Mango never did implement X-10. I have not tried this yet.

Here is a screen shot of data source retreiving temperature sensor 1 data:

In addition, you can prevent this from happening in the first place by using "discard extreme values" checkbox for the data point. I was having the same problem with my 1-wire temperature sensors and this fixed it entirely.

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I've got leads soldered to the board now.

On the input side: DQ, Com, +5VDC
On the output side I/O A, com, I/O B

The DS 2406 is mounted on the board with some pullup resistors.

I can do RJ-45 on the input side if you needed it.

OK, I will finally get off my butt and send you one of these like I promised.

It works with One Wire Viewer just fine by connecting a switch across it's inputs. I can see the state change in One Wire Viewer.

I could really use this functionality from Mango as well.

http://www.embeddeddatasystems.com/D2--Low-Cost-2-Channel-Digital-IO-1-Wire-Card_p_12.html

Is there any import restrictions to Canada? Special markings?

Mike

There was some discussion some time ago about using Labjack with Mango (someone wanted to monitor and control a remote cabin). At that time it was not possible due propriatary protocol. Labjack is now Modbus capable and has been tested ( if briefly) with Mango.

See here: http://labjack.com/support/ljsocket about halfway down the page.

This may open up a lot more possibilites for some folks.

Mike

There was some discussion some time ago about using Labjack with Mango (someone wanted to monitor and control a remote cabin). At that time it was not possible due propriatary protocol. Labjack is now Modbus capable and has been tested ( if briefly) with Mango.

See here: http://labjack.com/support/ljsocket about halfway down the page.

This may open up a lot more possibilites for some folks.

Mike

I am successfully pushing data out to Pachube from Mango. Thanks for the tutorial above it was a BIG help. Pachube documentation is lacking or hard to find. Go to www.pachube.com and type in "Mikes House" in the search field and you will see me on the map. Double click the push pin and you will find my first few feeds. More to come. I gave Mango a little plug there as well.

I thought I had seen when I first started with Mango there was some discussion of implementing X-10 for Home (or other) Automation. Has this died or is there still a possibility? X-10 Power Line Carrier is a great way to avoid geeting involved with mains voltage when desiring to control various AC devices. It's pretty much plug and play and widely available from many suppliers.

I thought I had seen when I first started with Mango there was some discussion of implementing X-10 for Home (or other) Automation. Has this died or is there still a possibility? X-10 Power Line Carrier is a great way to avoid geeting involved with mains voltage when desiring to control various AC devices. It's pretty much plug and play and widely available from many suppliers.

Your XML is similar to mine with the exeption that I DO NOT have any duplicate lines. What I mean is the you have multiple things called <value>. Mine are all unique. Maybe someone else cold help you out with the code for that. I am not a code writer!

You MUST make sure your URL is correct or the HTTP receiver will not even be able to find your XML. It took me a while to figure mine out. I had to go digging deep in the TED documentation.

This definitely should put you on the right track though.

I am parsing XML from my TED (The Energy Detective) home energy monitor. A screen shot from my data source is attached. Basically, you need to know the structure of your XML and then have Mango go look for data using HTTP retriever and a little code that finds the data. Not complicated really.

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Solved.

Instead of using port 25 for smtp at Cox, I used port 587 which is supposedly for mobile devices. Also, and probably the biggest issue was, I originally did not have a "from " address in the Mango system setup. So cox thought I was an annonymous spammer.

My cell phone (dumb phone) only receives the subject line since Cox is receiving the email in HTML instead of plain text. Al least I know something is going on with MAngo and can go check online.

As in another poster recently asked, it would be nice to have a selection for plain text e-mail or HTML in the system setup.

So, Mango is working great for me and I keep trying to do new things. I currently have the system e-mail me when certain parameters go out of wack. So far so good.

Obviously I am not always on e-mail and would prefer a SMS text message. I tried to have the Mango email "myphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com" through my email account at XXXXXX@cox.net. I receive an error back (I assume from Cox) that no relaying is allowed.

When I am personally logged in to Cox I can send the email to myphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com with no problem.

Has anyone figured out how to have Mango send you a SMS text message? Do all email providers prevent relaying?

Thanks,

Mike

So, Mango is working great for me and I keep trying to do new things. I currently have the system e-mail me when certain parameters go out of wack. So far so good.

Obviously I am not always on e-mail and would prefer a SMS text message. I tried to have the Mango email "myphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com" through my email account at XXXXXX@cox.net. I receive an error back (I assume from Cox) that no relaying is allowed.

When I am personally logged in to Cox I can send the email to myphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com with no problem.

Has anyone figured out how to have Mango send you a SMS text message? Do all email providers prevent relaying?

Thanks,

Mike

I finally got around to loading the newest version of Mango (1.8.2 I think). I enabled the option to discard what I consider bad data for the DS18B20 and this works just fine for me. No more flaky charts when i restart my 1-wire network! Thanks a bunch! For my latest version of my public page see:

http://mikeshouse.homedns.org/