Initial setup on Ubuntu server 20.04

[S54Mpower]

Hello Jertel,

thank you for your great effort putting this together for community.
I am having troubles with initial setup and hope you could help me.

• I've installed dependencies, when running pip3 show -installed I have listed:
  influxdb 5.3.1
  influxdb-client 1.33.0
  pyemvue 0.16.1

• I've also installed vuegraf by running pip install vuegraf==1.4.0 and by checking installed packages it shows as installed.

• Also, added JSON dashboard into grafana. My Grafana and Influx are running correctly for other stuff.

• Now the part which I am not fully understanding is where to place configuration files "setup.py" and "vuegraf.json". I have tried to place them under vuegraf folder which in my case is "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vuegraf-1.4.0.dist-info". I have tried to run the program by running command
  python3 /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vuegraf-1.4.0.dist-info vuegraf.py vuegraf.json and the response I get is following:
  /usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in '/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vuegraf-1.4.0.dist-info'

It seems to me like I am doing something wrong with the configuration or the vuegraf Installed is missing this module?

Thank you in advance.

[jertel]

Hello,

The installation instructions are documented here: https://github.com/jertel/vuegraf#running

It looks like you have done things manually and that's likely causing problems. Try following the installation steps and see if it's more clear. For the non-Docker method, it assumes you've already git cloned this project locally.

I personally run the Docker container, but I know others that run the python process directly on their host OS.

[S54Mpower]

Hi,

thank you for the answer, key was cloning. I did clone the project and then run the setup. Now I am able to get the data as follows.

• 2022-10-25 13:50:40.672406 | INFO | Using InfluxDB version 1
  2022-10-25 13:50:46.532205 | INFO | Login completed
  2022-10-25 13:50:47.810323 | INFO | Discovered new channel: SHVue (1,2,3)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.220344 | INFO | Discovered new channel: STEDNJAK (1)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.220577 | INFO | Discovered new channel: PC_IT (2)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.220691 | INFO | Discovered new channel: FRIZ_PECNICA (3)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.220798 | INFO | Discovered new channel: PERILICA_SUDJA (4)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.220901 | INFO | Discovered new channel: MASINE_ROBA (5)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221002 | INFO | Discovered new channel: RASVJETA (6)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221116 | INFO | Discovered new channel: UTICNICE (7)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221220 | INFO | Discovered new channel: RASVJETA_NAPA (8)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221330 | INFO | Discovered new channel: None (9)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221394 | INFO | Discovered new channel: None (10)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221442 | INFO | Discovered new channel: None (11)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221580 | INFO | Discovered new channel: None (12)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221630 | INFO | Discovered new channel: MIKROVALNA (13)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221677 | INFO | Discovered new channel: KLIME (14)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221722 | INFO | Discovered new channel: GARAZA (15)
  2022-10-25 13:50:48.221769 | INFO | Discovered new channel: RASVJETA (16)
  2022-10-25 13:50:49.011290 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=0
  2022-10-25 13:51:49.845249 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:52:50.625547 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:53:51.184178 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:54:51.929735 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:55:52.673972 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:56:53.420994 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:57:54.185760 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14
  2022-10-25 13:58:54.929659 | INFO | Submitting datapoints to database; account="SHVue"; points=14

Now, I "just" have to figure out how to store data correctly to Influx. I am getting live data when vuegraf is running. Probably it would be the best to run script every hour to download historical data for last hour and send to influx?

Would appreciate your input and suggestions on this.

Thank you

[jertel]

Vuegraf is intended to run continuously. There's no need to schedule it to restart. It will automatically update every minute with averages over the past minute. Then, once per hour it will download the per-second details and backfill the past hour with the additional detailed datapoints. See #54 for more information.

[S54Mpower]

Oh, sounds good, thank you for clarification and sorry for my lack of knowledge.