RAVEN2DB

Raven2DB is a simple 'c' application to read a communication port that is attached to a rainforest automation RAVEn USB device and store the raw XML data into a MySQL database.

• requires MySQL-Devel packages
• requires [rainforest] RAVEn(tm) hardware device
• application runs as root

This is a very simple app that I needed to just save the XML. I can not support the set up of this application on your system. I currently just run mine as a ROOT user to stuff the data in.
If you want to run this as a different user, you will need to give access to the Communicaiton port to that user and so on. The same is for the MySQL database, you need to give access to your database and table for this program to write to the tabel.

Device

RAVEn - rainforestautomation Zigbee 1.0 device

STEP #1 - Load RAVEn com port driver

The RAVEn device will output XML when it is plugged in. It doesn't matter if its connected to a device or not. You will need to set up your Linux machine to install the proper driver

This device is an ftdi-sio device I used the standard CentOS linux driver by running the following modprobe command

modprobe -r ftdi-sio product=0x8a28 vendor=0x0403

I checked my dmesg output to see that my driver /dev/ttyUSB0 was installed, I then ran the command

cat /dev/ttyUSB0

at that point the XML output from the RAVEn device was displayed. So I knew the driver was correct and the unit was working I decided to have the driver installed at boot time on my CentOS 6 x64 machine (ref: Load at boot)

echo "modprobe ftdi-sio product=0x8a28 vendor=0x0403" >/etc/sysconfig/modules/my_ftdi.modules
chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/my_ftdi.modules

STEP #2 - Create Database and tables

Using your favoriate MySQL tool(s) create a Database called raven and the ravenxml table. The only field the 'C' code will insert is the xml field. All the other fields you can use but will not be set on the insert

--
-- Table structure for table `ravenxml`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `ravenxml`;
CREATE TABLE `ravenxml` (
  `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `ts` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `xml` text,
 `processed` enum('N','Y') DEFAULT 'N',
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=60072 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

STEP #3 - Compile application

Pull the files to a directory and run make to complie the application. This is a simple make file so provided MySQL development is installed it should compile.

make

Also supported is a clean make command

make clean

STEP #4 - Install/RUN

I never built a install script, so I just run it where its installed. You will want to edit and modify the raven2db.ini file to match your setup

[Raven2DB]
  SQLUser=ravenU
  SQLPassword=ravenP
  SQLHost=localhost
  SQLDatabase=raven
  SQLTable=ravenxml

  Debug=No
  DebugLog=./raven2db.log

  USBDev=/dev/ttyUSB0

I've included a sample config script for your /etc/init.d/ directory.

#!/bin/sh
# description: Raven 2 Database program, Stores Raven output to MySQL
# chkconfig: 2345 99 00

case "$1" in
'start')
    /usr/src/raven2db/raven2db &
    touch /var/lock/subsys/raven2db
    ;;
'stop')
    killall raven2db
    rm -f /var/lock/subsys/raven2db
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
    ;;
esac

License

Open Software License v. 3.0 (OSL-3.0)