This document is a quick tutorial to set up:

codegen-tooling-msxiv (required for DBC file)
virtual CAN (required for testing
AWS (required for DynamoDB)
Raspberry Pi Startup Script

The following are not needed but are here in case we need to install them for some reason

Node-Red (optional)
Chronograf (optional for collecting data)
Grafana (optional for dashboards)

Make sure that the RasberryPi and Node-Red password are changed from their default setting.

Generating the DBC File

Follow the instructions in the repo and run the commands below as well if things aren’t working still.

GitHub - uw-midsun/codegen-tooling-msxiv: [Deprecated] Codegen tooling for MSXIV!

# You may need to be root or use "sudo" to run these commands

# Update packages and install dependency packages for services
apt-get update \
 && apt-get dist-upgrade -y \
 && apt-get clean \
 && echo 'Finished installing dependencies'

# Install packages
apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
  clang-format \
  git \
  golang-go \
  golang-goprotobuf-dev \
  protobuf-compiler \
  python-pip \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Clone and install project dependencies
git clone https://github.com/uw-midsun/codegen-tooling-xiv.git \
  && cd codegen-tooling-xiv \
  && pip install -r requirements.txt

# Generate DBC and templates
cd codegen-tooling-xiv \
  && make gen \
  && make gen-dbc

Setting up Virtual CAN

Here is a link to set up CAN interfaces or look below to set up virtual CAN.

 modprobe vcan
 sudo ip link add dev vcan0 type vcan
 sudo ip link set up vcan0

Setting up AWS

Go to the link below to set up AWS on your machine.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html

If you’re too lazy to look at the link, just run the commands below.

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

If you are installing AWS on a Raspberry Pi refer to the link below to install and set up AWS credentials.

https://ownthe.cloud/posts/configure-aws-cli-on-raspberry-pi/

The two tables (that should already be set up and which the script will write to) are:

can_messages
gps_data

To be able to write to these tables. You’ll need to configure AWS credentials first. Refer to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/v1/developer-guide/setup-credentials.html

Again if you don’t feel like looking at the link, just run the command aws configure

If you are using AWS-educate, this doesn't seem to work for so I have to manually go to ~/.aws/credentials and write down my credentials there.

Startup script for Raspberry Pi

Copy the following code below into rc.local on the Raspberry Pi so that the telemetry scripts can be run on startup. To access rc.local, run:

sudo vim /etc/rc.local

Once you have opened rc.local, copy and paste the following code below.

Installing and Running Node-Red

To install Node-Red, you can refer to the RPI Documentation or run the command below.

bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered)

To start Node-Red run

node-red-start

Once it is up and running you can access Node-Red by going to this URL

http://127.0.0.1:1880/admin

Installing InfluxDB.chronograf

To install and run InfluxDB you can refer to to the installation instructions or run the commands below.

Once it is up and running you can access InfluxDB by going here

http://127.0.0.1:8888

Installing Grafana

Once it is up and running you can access Grafana by going to this URL

http://127.0.0.1:3000/

login: admin

password: admin

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