The prodos memodata processing
This document describes the configuration and the data flow of the prodos memodata processing. The prodos webserver offers an URI that triggers the download of a memodata zip file from the prodos control. New data are available after the completion of a dosing cycle. Specific parts of the memodata have to be extracted and stored at the SiteController.
The SiteController uses its module da_rest_client to interact with the prodos webserver by REST requests.
1. Determine the completion of a dosing cycle
The sensor globalstates_dosing_mode represents the current state of the dosing cycle:
<sensor sensor_id="globalstates_dosing_mode"> <sensor_class>code</sensor_class> <state_evaluation_expressions> <state_evaluation_expression> <expression>True</expression> <true>%value%</true> </state_evaluation_expression> </state_evaluation_expressions> <sensor_gateway sensor_gateway_id="globalstates_gw"> <demux> <keys> <key>dms</key> </keys> </demux> </sensor_gateway> </sensor>
This sensor requires the sensor gateway globalstates_gw:
<sensor_gateway publish_strategy="on_change" sensor_gateway_id="globalstates_gw"> <rest_client> <uri>/fcgi/data/globalstates/1</uri> <scheduling> <polling_interval>3000</polling_interval> <error_handling> <retry retry_interval_before_alert="2000"/> <timeout_handling> <fixed_timeout>1000</fixed_timeout> </timeout_handling> </error_handling> </scheduling> </rest_client> </sensor_gateway>
With this scheduling parameters (3 seconds interval ) all changes of the dosing mode state are acquired. If the sensor globalstates_dosing_mode has the value 'AUTO Dosing _ END' or 'Dosing _ END' the dosing cycle is completed and new memodata could be downloaded.
2. Download of the memodata
An AutomationController rule detects the state change to the dosing cycle completion
<rule rule_id="Prodos download trigger"> <triggers> <trigger value_name="dosing_mode" value_type="string" trigger_topic="calibrated_result" sensor_id="globalstates_dosing_mode"/> </triggers> <conditions> <condition expr="dosing_mode == 'AUTO Dosing _ END' or dosing_mode == 'Dosing _ END'"> <true> <action_list> <action action_id="download_memodata" command="download"/> </action_list> </true> </condition> </conditions> </rule>
Please refer to the da_rest_client action to get more information about the download action.
The action itself is configured this way:
<action action_id="download_memodata" device_id="rest_test"> <commands> <command command_id="download">download('/fcgi/control/memodata_download')</command> </commands> </action>
3. Determine the completion of memodata download
As described in the da_rest_client action the da_rest_client is able to represent the download completion and the download time in a specific sensor gateway (the sensor gateway id is identical to the device id of the da_rest_client).
<sensor sensor_id="rest_download_file"> <sensor_class>unknown</sensor_class> <upload>always</upload> <error_severity>200</error_severity> <state_evaluation_expressions> <state_evaluation_expression> <expression>True</expression> <true>%value%</true> </state_evaluation_expression> </state_evaluation_expressions> <sensor_gateway sensor_gateway_id="rest_test"> <demux> <keys> <key>dl_file</key> </keys> </demux> </sensor_gateway> </sensor>
For a valid XML configuration it is required to add the sensor gateway id to the device configuration of the da_rest_client:
<device device_id="rest_test"> <rest_client_device> <host>...</host> </rest_client_device> <sensor_gateways> <sensor_gateway sensor_gateway_id="rest_test"> <simulator/> </sensor_gateway> </sensor_gateways> </device>
4. Processing of the downloaded memodata
An AutomationController rule detects the completion of a download
<rule rule_id="Prodos log processing"> <triggers> <trigger value_name="dl_file" value_type="string" trigger_topic="calibrated_result" sensor_id="rest_download_file"/> </triggers> <conditions> <condition expr="dl_file is not None"> <true> <action_list> <action action_id="process_memodata" command="go"/> </action_list> </true> </condition> </conditions> </rule>
The action itself is configured this way:
<action action_id="process_memodata" device_id="VirtualSensorProvider"> <commands> <command command_id="go">launch_exec_job('process_memodata')</command> </commands> </action>
Please refer to the Prodos log processor to get detailed information about the processing. For completeness the minimal configuration in the SiteController.cfg to launch the processing is shown here:
[remote_exec_calls] process_memodata=/opt/azeti/SiteController/src/prodos_log_processor.py