Back in 2016, I ordered a number of wireless temperature sensors and a single USB device to listen for their messages from a company called Wireless Things out of Nottingham, UK. Their devices were great, but the company went under. Their software is published here. To simplify the deployment, I decided to share here how I've gotten it to work as a Docker container.
What I have called the srf-stick-receiver is in the original software called the MessageBridge, part of the LaunchPad. All of MessageBridge has been copied into this repository, and is as of early 2020 unchanged from the original repository. I've externalized the configuration file, so you can edit this even after building the image. Log files are also externalized.
A more developed version of simpleUDPListen.py from the original software is included. Read and edit the settings to suit your environment. At this point the configuration is not externalized and so baked into the image you build below.
Edit the MessageBridge.cfg file to have the right setting for your serial port. For me, this is /dev/ttyACM0. If this is a different port for you, make sure to edit the docker run command listed below to have the same device mapped to inside the container.
In the srf-stick-receiver directory, run
docker build -t "robdejonge/srf-stick-receiver" .
And in the mqtt-publisher directory, run
docker build -t "robdejonge/mqtt-publisher" .
Then, start the mqtt-publisher component
docker run --detach \
--name mqtt-publisher \
-p 50140:50140/udp \
-e PYTHONUNBUFFERED=0 \
robdejonge/mqtt-publisher
and the srf-stick-receiver component
docker run --detach \
--name srf-stick-receiver \
--device /dev/ttyACM0:/dev/ttyACM0 \
-v /usr/share/srf-stick-receiver/config:/config \
-v /usr/share/srf-stick-receiver/logs:/logs \
robdejonge/srf-stick-receiver
Please note that upon it's first start, stf-stick-receiver will die with the following message
2020-05-05 07:02:26,535 - Message Bridge - CRITICAL - No Config Loaded, Exiting
2020-05-05 07:02:26,552 - Message Bridge - CRITICAL - DIE
If you start it a second time (or if it is started a second time), it will have written a template configuration file into /config and should then work. If not, feel free to open the file to adjust settings as they should be.
The serial port for my device is /dev/ttyACM0 and I assume this will be the same for you. If not, change to the appropriate port in the above command and run. Do not forget to edit the configuration file accordingly.
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