Rudimentary Operation

Day to day operating procedure for the temperature array should proceed approximately as follows:

Run the acquisition command from the control computer command line:

$ cd ~/Documents/sampling/arduino/

$ seqTimeSec=301

$ averageTimeSec=10 $ sudo a+rw /dev/ttyACM0 #Check which dev port the arduino is assigned - typically ttyACM0 or ttyACM2

$ python3 ReadDataFromJimArduinoCircuit.py "/dev/ttyACM0" $seqTimeSec $averageTimeSec

Sequences should be batched in 5-10 minute periods (the seqTimeSec variable above) to keep the machine from having to read too much data into memory at one time.

The statistic of merit is the temperature variation along each axis, and these data are saved in the /data/YYYY_MM_DD/ directory. The individual data streams are also saved there, though we should perhaps delete them to avoid filling up the machine's memory. Plots of the data streams are saved to the /plots/YYYY_MM_DD/ directory.

The data files are saved with a running tally that ticks upward with every execution of the data acquisition script.