I recently purchased an Android phone and now have semi-permanent retina damage.

However, just before the i completely lost my marbles, i installed an App called "Torque"
After connecting it to my cheap ebay elm327 OBD interface on my car, i was presented with some wonderful dials and a way to upload my car's ECU data to the interweb.

So i thought to meself, "hey, i could send it to mango!" and there was born unto me an idea.

And so now, mango now emails me on certain conditions...over-speed (yes really!!) average fuel consumption too low and a host more i'm working on. like a weekly report.
I'm working on a kind of geofence idea to email me when i go through the toll bridge too as i've been overcharged from time to time. (it's a camera system they use...and i have a very generic car...grrr)

Well, thats just another use i've found for Mango. Maybe it can fuel some good ideas. pardon the pun :-)

Peadar

I recently purchased an Android phone and now have semi-permanent retina damage.

However, just before the i completely lost my marbles, i installed an App called "Torque"
After connecting it to my cheap ebay elm327 OBD interface on my car, i was presented with some wonderful dials and a way to upload my car's ECU data to the interweb.

So i thought to meself, "hey, i could send it to mango!" and there was born unto me an idea.

And so now, mango now emails me on certain conditions...over-speed (yes really!!) average fuel consumption too low and a host more i'm working on. like a weekly report.
I'm working on a kind of geofence idea to email me when i go through the toll bridge too as i've been overcharged from time to time. (it's a camera system they use...and i have a very generic car...grrr)

Well, thats just another use i've found for Mango. Maybe it can fuel some good ideas. pardon the pun :-)

Peadar

I'd like to share a little work-around my buddy and i discovered whilst developing a certain project.

We use mango for our SCADA environment and especially love the flexibility of it.

This is shown out in the way we use the nmea listener.

PROJECT:
We needed a way to parse a comma separated sentance from a self built board and micro-processor (16fxxx for the nerds out there)
Well, the nmea listener did the trick, but then out in the field it proved a little difficult as rs232 doesn't really like a 15 mile cable!

So we packaged it up with a modem and sent it via GPRS on, well, lets say TCP port 5555

We then installed a piece of free software (see below) to forward the TCP message to a Virtual Serial Port - COM6.

And...as you can see from the attached screenshots, it worked pretty well

SOFTWARE:
Mango (of course!)
Virtual Serial Port Emulator from www.eterlogic.com (free for 32bit platform)
Install the software and create a new 'connector' (er...com port) set it with defaults and tick the 'emulate baud rate' box.
Then create a 'TCP Server'. Enter the TCP port you want the Server to listen on. Then choose the newly created serial port and in serial port settings, choose 19,200 baud and leave rest as default.
Initialize the new 'Devices' and send some data.
Create your NMEA listener as a data source in Mango and listen for data. With any luck, you should see some data coming in.

THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR:
The NMEA listener is limited to 9600 baud. Thats fine, but your COM Port must be set to at least double that (19,200) for mango to hear your transmission.
I don't know the exact reason, maybe someone else could offer an explanation.
Don't 'enable' the NMEA data source in mango if you're trying to listen to test data. It will hog the serial port. I'm sure you know that, but it took me while to figure !!

I hope someone finds this useful. After all we've benefited so much from this resource.

njoy

Attachment: download link

I'd like to share a little work-around my buddy and i discovered whilst developing a certain project.

We use mango for our SCADA environment and especially love the flexibility of it.

This is shown out in the way we use the nmea listener.

PROJECT:
We needed a way to parse a comma separated sentance from a self built board and micro-processor (16fxxx for the nerds out there)
Well, the nmea listener did the trick, but then out in the field it proved a little difficult as rs232 doesn't really like a 15 mile cable!

So we packaged it up with a modem and sent it via GPRS on, well, lets say TCP port 5555

We then installed a piece of free software (see below) to forward the TCP message to a Virtual Serial Port - COM6.

And...as you can see from the attached screenshots, it worked pretty well

SOFTWARE:
Mango (of course!)
Virtual Serial Port Emulator from www.eterlogic.com (free for 32bit platform)
Install the software and create a new 'connector' (er...com port) set it with defaults and tick the 'emulate baud rate' box.
Then create a 'TCP Server'. Enter the TCP port you want the Server to listen on. Then choose the newly created serial port and in serial port settings, choose 19,200 baud and leave rest as default.
Initialize the new 'Devices' and send some data.
Create your NMEA listener as a data source in Mango and listen for data. With any luck, you should see some data coming in.

THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR:
The NMEA listener is limited to 9600 baud. Thats fine, but your COM Port must be set to at least double that (19,200) for mango to hear your transmission.
I don't know the exact reason, maybe someone else could offer an explanation.
Don't 'enable' the NMEA data source in mango if you're trying to listen to test data. It will hog the serial port. I'm sure you know that, but it took me while to figure !!

I hope someone finds this useful. After all we've benefited so much from this resource.

njoy

hi guys, (er and gals...:-o )

i was wondering is there any way that the NMEA listener can run at a higher baud rate?
It seems limited to 9600 and i need it to go to 19,200...

has anyone any suggestions?

regards

hi guys, (er and gals...:-o )

i was wondering is there any way that the NMEA listener can run at a higher baud rate?
It seems limited to 9600 and i need it to go to 19,200...

has anyone any suggestions?

regards

here's 2 screens from a current project.
not the best artistically, but you get the idea :-)

hope that helps

Peadar

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Did you ever want to display feed from Yahoo Pipes?

In my case, i show a Google Map of a vehicle's position in relative realtime
The reason for this is that i am monitoring a bunch of data being relayed from a truck and wanted to display its position in realtime, on a map in the same webpage.

Yahoo Pipes handles the KML data from my GPS Tracking Software, providing a live feed.

I imagine you can display any Yahoo Pipes feed, its just i use the KML feature.

this is a demo link i put up for all to see:
http://limcoco.dyndns.org:9090/public_view.htm?viewId=4

if you'd like to know more, just let me know and i'll post some sample code.

Ps. remember please that i'm a bit of a novice, and there is probably a much simpler way of achieving what i've done here. :-)

Did you ever want to display feed from Yahoo Pipes?

In my case, i show a Google Map of a vehicle's position in relative realtime
The reason for this is that i am monitoring a bunch of data being relayed from a truck and wanted to display its position in realtime, on a map in the same webpage.

Yahoo Pipes handles the KML data from my GPS Tracking Software, providing a live feed.

I imagine you can display any Yahoo Pipes feed, its just i use the KML feature.

this is a demo link i put up for all to see:
http://limcoco.dyndns.org:9090/public_view.htm?viewId=4

if you'd like to know more, just let me know and i'll post some sample code.

Ps. remember please that i'm a bit of a novice, and there is probably a much simpler way of achieving what i've done here. :-)

nothing wrong with mango at all!

The hiccup is, its not so clear from an initial glance how mango correlates to pachube in relation to feed ID and Datastream ID.

It's easy now i understand it, but is a steep learning curve for a novice like me. Plus Pachube is a little weak on the documentation side of things

in my case i didn't put the correct 'Feed ID' into mango so although the publisher was sending the API key and getting a response, it was a 404 or 503 response, so i imagine mango just kept trying to send it until a 200 would come back.

sorry for the confusion, i'll try not to accomplish large tasks like this at night time...all was clear after a few hours kip :-)

hope that can help a few of the members

Peadar