David and others ...
Sorry for the scatter shot of my last message. Developing at the speed of the mind of high school student is dizzying sometimes.
Background on the project is as follows...
Our school has a super mileage vehicle club (SMV) that build high endurance "cars" and races them for fuel efficiency. ? last year one of there cars averaged over 100 mpg. In the spring they race their cars at Road America a large race track. They have always wanted to get "real-time" status of their cars to better game the race.?
The SMV advisor saw that the radio club was able to send/receive data at distances greater than 5 miles and asked us to take on a joint project.?
Project goals:
1. Near real-time reporting of GPS position data -- (we have this already working using a TBEACON and GPSD.
2. Send telemetry data (battery voltage and current draw) from the car's on-board cycle analyst via a serial connection to the raspberry pi. -- Here is where our questions really lie.
Does the TBEACON support the COMMENTCMD?
Does this still all work with SMARTBEACONING?
The examples show perl, python, and bash script but doesn't really give clear guidance on what each does.?
It looks like telem-data.pl just concatenates the arguments that are passed to it. ?
and telem-volts.conf line 27 just calls?telem-data.pl with a shell script (telem-seq.sh) and a Python script.?
Could calling three different systems be made more efficient by using just one script that ends up echoing what the combination of all of them do??
Hope this helps to focus what we are looking for thank you to everyone for your help.
Timothy
