Here's a summary of what we talked about and did in this last meeting.
We talked about:
- The current state of the river control software/system.
- How to handle the probe float bobbing up and down a lot in software.
- Better ways to document & comment software.
- Making the probe remember the last reading in hardware so people and/or the software can see what the level is more easily.
- Grab the software from the Pis and upload it to github so I can work on it again.
- Improve handling of a bobbing float in the sump by changing the control logic.
- Stop showing tons of debugging messages in the log file.
- Fix a final bug that was accidentally introduced after changing the control logic (access to a variable that hadn't been set).
- ^-- Because of this the reading interval is set to 30sec at 500mm, rather than being left as is.
- Test the system once again.
- Leave the system running but without the butts valve on; we can collect more water if it rains this way.
- Penri will build a new magnetic probe with the ring magnet for increased reliability.
- I will improve the software's crash detection so we can log exactly what happened in the event of a software crash.
- I will expand upon the level of detail in the docstrings as I discussed with Terry (this IS what I'm meant to be doing, right Terry? XD)
- I will document the commandline arguments in another design spec forum post so Terry can integrate that into the spec file.
- Modify the control logic slightly so we can avoid setting a new reading interval at 500mm (right now it sets it to 30sec).
- Come back (at least Penri and I) and turn the butts valve so it can function properly, if everything has been fine since Tuesday.
- ^-- I will bring my laptop in case we need to diagnose or upload new software.
