ALL THIS IS LEGACY :-)
The THEMIS/BIOS softwares can be installed on an emonpi or on a specific BIOS hardware.
On both of these hardwares, the man machine interface is very basic and consists of a 2 lines LCD screen plus a push button.
The man machine service called ihm can be configured so that a long press on the push button can start/stop the actuators connected to the gpio (pinout mode) or to a digital output modbus module connected to BIOS via an RS485 USB dongle (registers mode).
installation
As usual, manually start the runner to create a sample conf file :
cd /opt/openenergymonitor/BIOS2/hardware
./ihm.py
Then install with the makefile :
make install ihm
To uninstall :
make uninstall ihm
configuration file
The following configuration has got the classic gpio/pinout parameters and the ability to command two relays via a DO module. Please note the ihm service searches automatically for the first DO module connected on the RTU bus so you do not have to fix any id.
The nb* keys permit to define how many actuators are available through the man machine interface.
In this example, you can command five 3-way valves plus one pump, all connected to the gpio, and no actuator will be available through the modbus/RS485 protocol.
{
"nbgpiores": 1,
"nbgpiov3v": 5,
"nbmodres": 0,
"nbmodv3v": 0,
"pinout": {
"v3v": [0, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 21],
"res": [23, 24]
},
"registers": {
"v3v": [],
"res": [0, 1]
}
}
Legend :
- res stands for on/off equipment
- v3v stands for 3-way valve
- mod stands for modbus/RS485 protocol
- gpio stands for direct gpio connexion using wiringpi or gpiozero libraries