The OOK packets are now collected and stored in the JeeMon database.
Here are the first few readings from the barometric pressure sensor inside the OOK relay, as received by the central node and graphed by JeeMon:
Here is the outside temperature from a WS300 weather station on the roof:
JeeMon is written in Tcl – the following new code was added to process packets from the OOK relay and get the different parameters stored:
The RELAY decoder processes incoming data, separating the bytes into one or more messages and calling the corresponding type-specifc decoders. The RF868 decoder merely reformats incoming data to the format used by another decoder called “ALT” and which was already present in JeeMon. The RF434 decoder is just a stub for now. Note also that the DCF decoder logs the current time – it may seem odd, but storing the received time along with the current system time can be used later to detect local clock drift and compensate for it.
It’s perhaps all mumbo-jumbo for now, I just wanted to illustrate how messages get routed inside JeeMon, and that it takes relatively little logic to deal with new data sources.
This would really benefit from a flexible plug-in system, so that this sort of logic does not have to be added in JeeMon itself but can be picked up on-the-fly. Then it would be easy to add new nodes such as the OOK relay and have JeeMon automatically incorporate the corresponding logic to decode, process, and store their data packets.
What is OOK?
OOK = On Off Keying. Also called ASK, Amplitude Shift Keying. Turning the transmitter on and of in a certain pattern to send data. This is used by all sorts of cheap/simple wireless transmitters.
The RFM12B uses FSK, Frequency Shift Keying. Difference is similar to FM vs. AM radio.