datalogger/README.md

# Datalogger

ESP8266 running Micropython collecting temperature humidity and light level. Pushing data to a Mosquito server. A python script to ingest the data into an influx database. Grafana to display the data.

This is a work in progress and is not suitable for production

## Server Setup

This assumes you are using Ubuntu-20.04

### Install packages

`sudo su -`

`wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -`

`echo "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list`

`wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdb.gpg`

`export DISTRIB_ID=$(lsb_release -si); export DISTRIB_CODENAME=$(lsb_release -sc)`

`echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdb.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list`

`sudo apt update`

`sudo apt install python3-pip nginx mosquitto grafana influxdb python3-certbot-nginx`

`pip3 install pipenv`

### Setup Nginx





## Esp8266 Setup

### Install tools

```pip3 install esptool adafruit-ampy```

### Download Esp8266 Firmware

https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/esp8266-20210418-v1.15.bin

### Install firmware

```esptool.py --port <port> erase_flash```

```esptool.py --port <port> --baud 1000000 write_flash --flash_size=4MB -fm dio 0 <download_folder>/esp8266-20210418-v1.15.bin```

### Edit config file

```cp uP/config.json.sample config.json```

### Copy libraries, config and code to esp8266

```ampy -p <port> put uP /```