How to connect TMP36 Analog Temperature Sensor with ThingWorx.

Question

Hi,
 
Today I was going through one of the QuickStart Guides: https://developer.thingworx.com/resources/guides/thingworx-raspberry-pi-quickstart/
Where ThingWorx team has used Adafruit DHT11​ Temperature Sensor to connect it to Raspberry Pi.
But in place of that I have ​TMP36 Analog Temperature Sensor​ and Arduino Uno. As Raspberry Pi cannot read/convert analog values into digital values, I have attached the sensor to Arduino and than connect it to Raspberry Pi.
 
In Arduino I have used this:
 
const int temperaturePin = 0;
 
void setup()
{ 
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
 
void loop()
{
  float voltage, degreesC;
 
  voltage = getVoltage(temperaturePin);
 
  degreesC = (voltage - 0.5) * 100.0;
 
  Serial.print("Temp=");
  Serial.println(degreesC);
  
  delay(1000);
}
 
float getVoltage(int pin)
{ 
  return (analogRead(pin) * 0.004882814);
}
 
Python Script that I have place in /microserver/ArduinoTempSensor/ArduinoTempSensor.py is:

#!/usr/bin/python
 
import serial
import time
 
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600, 8, 'N', 1, timeout=5)
 
while True:
    if ser.inWaiting > 0:
        print(ser.readline())
 
and in PiTemplate.lua file, I have added these lines as mentioned:
 
1) properties.temp = { baseType="NUMBER", pushType="ALWAYS", value=0 }
2) local sensorCmd = io.popen("./ArduinoTempSensor/ArduinoTempSensor.py")
3)     -- set property templocal sensor = sensorCmd:read("*a")log.debug("[PiTemplate]",string.format("raw sensor %s", sensor))s = string.match(sensor,"Temp=(%d+\.%d+)");log.debug("[PiTemplate]",string.format("scaled temp %.1f", s))properties.temp.value = s
 
This far I have gone but results are not so good. The values got  updated but only once, after that it is not getting refreshed or new values.

Errors that I am getting while running EMS is:

While running Lua Script:

Regards,
Shashank

smishra-31 · Accepted Answer

Hi @supandey,

Apologies for late reply.

I am using Python 2.4

I have completely changed my old python script. Instead of initiating a infinite loop in script ( while True: ), I am returning only the 5th Value ( retries=5 ). I have used regular expression also to check the correct format.

So it is working fine now.

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import serial
import time
import re

ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600, 8, 'N', 1, timeout=5)
r = re.compile("\d{2}.\d{2}")

def read_retry(retries=5):
 temperature = None
 for i in range(retries):
 temp = ser.readline()
 if i == retries-1:
 if r.match(temp) is not None:
 temperature = float(temp)
 else:
 temperature = None
 return temperature

SensorTemp = read_retry()

if SensorTemp is not None:
 print('Temp={0:0.2f}'.format(SensorTemp))
else:
 print('Failed to get reading. Try again!')
 sys.exit(1)

Thanks & Regards,

Shashank

supandey · Answer

Hi @smishra-31 could you have both EMS and Lua config files enabled with Trace logging

EMS logging:

"logger": {
"level": "TRACE"
},

LSR logging setting :

scripts.log_level = "INFO"

What's also interesting is that your py scripts are returning float as datatype for the values while the ThingWorx and lua are attempting to work with Number base type. Have you already tried debugging the python script for possible mismatch of datatypes?

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