Forward to Influxdb from RPICT

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We will introduce you to the forwarding tool for Influxdb 'lcl-gateway'.

Prerequisites

  • Influxdb is already installed and a database has been created.
  • RPICT unit has been tested with the cat command first.
  • RPICT is using the default output format number 3.

Installation

Get the lcl-gateway tool and install it this way. 

wget lechacal.com/RPICT/tools/lcl-gateway_1.3.0_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i lcl-gateway_1.3.0_armhf.deb

Configuration

You can now edit the configuration file 

sudo nano /etc/lcl-gateway.conf

The file looks like this 

[system]
port=/dev/ttyAMA0
baud=38400

[emoncms]
enabled = False
hostname = emoncms.org
apikey = --apikey-from-emoncms-goes-here--
node = 20

[influxdb]
enabled = True
version = 1
measurement = rpict3t1

# Parameters for version 1 below
db = home
url = http://192.168.1.65:8086/write

# Parameters for version 2 below
#url = http://192.168.1.169:8086/api/v2/write
token = NbMVAzr35B0uZehxgd_lPgVpqjDGM2-r2UF15Qd3F4D0uv-VKtVsWslH4-7vVDH1r95A-imvdqPALt1m9bW6rA==
org = lcl
bucket = home



[localsave]
enabled = False
directory = /tmp/
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