Example Using InfluxDB: Difference between revisions

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION...

This is a basic example to forward data to an InfluxDB database. Note this will only cover a skeleton to start building your own application.

Prerequisites

The RPICT series board must output as CSV for this work.

Installation

Server side hosting InfluxDB

Install InfluxDB and Chronograf as recommended. This link provides compiled executables.

Github link is here.

We will call this server hostname myserver for our example below.

Raspberrypi side

Install the python biding to influxdb. Available from github here.

Do not be tempted by using apt-get install! Thsi will install an old version that does not work. Use pip or download the package from github and install using

sudo setup.py install

Check version using

python
import influxdb
print influxdb.__version__

Testing

Use some of the example from influxdb documentation to test the correct communication between the server and raspberrypi.

Also make sure you can access Chronograf by going to

http://myserver:8888

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 Github link is [https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb here].
+We will call this server hostname myserver for our example below.
 ===Raspberrypi side===
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   import influxdb
   print influxdb.__version__
+===Testing===
+Use some of the example from [https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.2/guides/writing_data/ influxdb documentation] to test the correct communication between the server and raspberrypi.
+Also make sure you can access Chronograf by going to
+ http://myserver:8888