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- weather station into max [message #112534] Sun, 12 August 2007 19:04 Go to next message
vodstrup
Messages: 41
Registered: September 2003
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Hi,

Hi - mxj works! cool, but...


I have an issue that I could use some advice with:


Background on my project:

I have built a weather station (full of fun wind, solar, temp, etc.
sensors). This weather station uses the "1-Wire" system from Dallas
Semiconductors. The java code I am using is called "simpleWeather"
and comes from weathertoys.net.

I'm on an Intel Mac and using a Keyspan USB adapter as the serial port
to talk to my sensors.

The "simpleweather" java code uses two libraries (one for the serial
adapter and one for the 1-Wire devices), a class for each sensor
(currently 6 total), and a main class called simpleWeather. All of
the classes use a "package" called simpleWeather.

I have (with help) successfully gotten this to work in Max. I have an
object named "mxj simpleWeather.SimpleWeather" that takes a bang in
its inlet and sends the data from each sensor to its own outlet (6
total).

It's finicky, but does work.

Here's my problem. When I "bang" the object, Max freezes (spinny
wheel mode) for about 2.5 seconds, and then it gives me my data.

Do any of you have any suggestions for a way that I might be able to
access the data without stopping whatever process is happening in
max/jitter?

Do you need more info to answer this - if so what?


..or since it's a serial port, am I better off trying to get the data
through the "serial" object? - tho I'm not sure I can convert/rewrite
the Java code in max.

thx in advance.

Bart
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- Re: weather station into max [message #112536 is a reply to message #112534 ] Sun, 12 August 2007 19:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
wesley.hoke@gmail.com is currently offline wesley.hoke@gmail.com
Messages: 2204
Registered: May 2005
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Sound like you need multithreading. Luckily in JAVA this is quite
easy. I've uploaded some code that is fairly straightforward and
shows how to do multithreading in JAVA. In particluar, look at the
FileUploader class. It inherits from runnable and has start(), run(),
and stop() methods for managing the thread it contains. You can take
this class, slap your serial/USB stuff in it and it shouldn't block
Max anymore.

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~whsmith/AutoUpload.zip

wes
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- Re: weather station into max [message #112554 is a reply to message #112536 ] Sun, 12 August 2007 23:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
vodstrup
Messages: 41
Registered: September 2003
Member

Great thx! I'm not exactly sure how to implement it, but let me hack
at it for a few days and see if/how it works. I also want to reread
some of the threading that is discussed in "Scheduler, Clocks, and
Executables, Oh My!" from the manual...

I might need to upload my main simpleWeather.java for you (or someone)
to see what's all going on under the hood.

bbw



On 8/12/07, Wesley Smith wrote:
> Sound like you need multithreading. Luckily in JAVA this is quite
> easy. I've uploaded some code that is fairly straightforward and
> shows how to do multithreading in JAVA. In particluar, look at the
> FileUploader class. It inherits from runnable and has start(), run(),
> and stop() methods for managing the thread it contains. You can take
> this class, slap your serial/USB stuff in it and it shouldn't block
> Max anymore.
>
> http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~whsmith/AutoUpload.zip
>
> wes
>


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- Re: weather station into max [message #112936 is a reply to message #112554 ] Thu, 16 August 2007 18:33 Go to previous message
vodstrup
Messages: 41
Registered: September 2003
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Hey Wes - thanks again. That was really easy to implement and worked great!

Bart


On 8/13/07, bart woodstrup wrote:
> Great thx! I'm not exactly sure how to implement it, but let me hack
> at it for a few days and see if/how it works. I also want to reread
> some of the threading that is discussed in "Scheduler, Clocks, and
> Executables, Oh My!" from the manual...
>
> I might need to upload my main simpleWeather.java for you (or someone)
> to see what's all going on under the hood.
>
> bbw
>
>
>
> On 8/12/07, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > Sound like you need multithreading. Luckily in JAVA this is quite
> > easy. I've uploaded some code that is fairly straightforward and
> > shows how to do multithreading in JAVA. In particluar, look at the
> > FileUploader class. It inherits from runnable and has start(), run(),
> > and stop() methods for managing the thread it contains. You can take
> > this class, slap your serial/USB stuff in it and it shouldn't block
> > Max anymore.
> >
> > http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~whsmith/AutoUpload.zip
> >
> > wes
> >
>
>
> --
>
>
> bartwoodstrup.com
> vodstrup.com
>


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