AM2302 temp/humidity sensor on RaspberryPi 2 (Munin graphs on Nginx)

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Hardware:

  • RasberryPi 2
  • AM2302 humidity/temperature sensor
  • Some wires from old PCs to connect sensor with RaspberryPi

Software:

  • Raspbian OS
  • Nginx
  • Munin
  • WiringPi
  • Lol_dht22

1. Solder wires to the sensor like on the picture above, and connect them to the correct pins:

Pin 1 on the AM2302 to pin 1 (+3.3V) on the GPIO connector (labeled P1 on the raspi)
Pin 2 on the AM2302 to pin 7 (GPIO 4) on the GPIO connector
Pin 4 on the AM2302 to pin 9 (Ground) on the GPIO connector

For detailed instructions, check this blog up to step 4: https://hackaday.io/project/3766/instructions

All shell commands will be run as root, so I will not use sudo.

2. Install Nginx (web server)

apt-get update
apt-get install nginx php5-fpm

3. Install Munin

Muning is a monitoring tool for sysadmins. It creates graphs to monitor various parameters. We will configure munin to display AM2302 sensor in graphs.

apt-get install munin munin-node munin-plugins-extra

Edit munin configuration file:

pico /etc/munin/munin.conf

[server.name]
 address 127.0.0.1
 use_node_name yes

4. Configure Nginx virtual host. Dynazoom will work with this config.

pico /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default or pico /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/your.domain.com

server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/your.domain.com.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/your.domain.com.key;
        server_name your.domain.com;
        root "/var/cache/munin/www/";
        auth_basic            "Private access";
        auth_basic_user_file  /etc/munin/munin_htpasswd;

        location ^~ /munin-cgi/munin-cgi-graph/ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/munin-cgi/munin-cgi-graph)(.*);
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/munin/spawn-fcgi-munin-graph.sock;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }

        location /static/ {
                alias /etc/munin/static/;
        }
}

5. Generate SSL cert

mkdir /etc/nginx/ssl
openssl req -subj '/CN=your.domain.com' -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/nginx/ssl/your.domain.com.key -out /etc/nginx/ssl/your.domain.com.crt

6. Generate website password

apt-get install apache2-utils
htpasswd -c /etc/munin/munin_htpasswd admin

You will be promted to enter a new password.

7. Add common modules to munin

cd /usr/share/munin/plugins
wget -O pisense_ https://raw.github.com/perception101/pisense/master/pisense_
chmod a+x pisense_
ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/pisense_ /etc/munin/plugins/pisense_temp
ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/pisense_ /etc/munin/plugins/pisense_clock
pico /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node
[pisense_*]
user root

8. Configure AM2302 prerequisites

apt-get install git-core
cd /opt/
git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd wiringPi
./build
cd /opt/
git clone https://github.com/technion/lol_dht22
cd lol_dht22
./configure
make

9. Create plugins for munin

pico /etc/munin/plugins/DHT22-humidity
#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
 config)
 cat <<'EOM'
graph_title Relative humidity
graph_vlabel Percent
graph_category AM2302
humidity.label RH
humidity.draw AREASTACK
humidity.colour 3E9BFB
EOM
 exit 0;;
esac

printf "humidity.value "
/opt/lol_dht22/loldht 7 | grep -i "humidity" | cut -d ' ' -f3
chmod +x /etc/munin/plugins/DHT22-humidity
pico /etc/munin/plugins/DHT22-temperature
#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
 config)
 cat <<'EOM'
graph_title Temperature
graph_vlabel Celsius
graph_category AM2302
temperature.label Celsius
temperature.label Temperature
temperature.draw AREASTACK
temperature.colour 00FF00
EOM
 exit 0;;
esac

printf "temperature.value "
/opt/lol_dht22/loldht 7 | grep -i "temperature" | cut -d ' ' -f7
chmod +x /etc/munin/plugins/DHT22-temperature
pico /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node

Add this to the end of the file:

[DHT22-*]
user root

10. Enable Dynazoom for graphs

apt-get install spawn-fcgi libcgi-fast-perl
pico /etc/init.d/munin-fastcgi
#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: spawn-fcgi-munin-graph
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Description: starts FastCGI for Munin-Graph
### END INIT INFO
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Munin-CGI-Graph Spawn-FCGI Startscript by Julien Schmidt
# eMail: munin-trac at julienschmidt.com
# www: http://www.julienschmidt.com
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Install: 
# 1. Copy this file to /etc/init.d
# 2. Edit the variables below
# 3. run "update-rc.d spawn-fcgi-munin-graph defaults"
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Special thanks for their help to:
# Frantisek Princ
# Jérôme Warnier
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Last Update: 14. February 2013
#
# Please change the following variables:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=spawn-fcgi-munin-graph
PID_FILE=/var/run/munin/$NAME.pid
SOCK_FILE=/var/run/munin/$NAME.sock
SOCK_USER=www-data
FCGI_USER=www-data
FCGI_GROUP=www-data
FCGI_WORKERS=2
DAEMON=/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi
DAEMON_OPTS="-s $SOCK_FILE -F $FCGI_WORKERS -U $SOCK_USER -u $FCGI_USER -g $FCGI_GROUP -P $PID_FILE -- /usr/lib/munin/cgi/munin-cgi-graph"

# --------------------------------------------------------------
# No edits necessary beyond this line
# --------------------------------------------------------------

if [ ! -x $DAEMON ]; then
 echo "File not found or is not executable: $DAEMON!"
 exit 0
fi

status() {
 if [ ! -r $PID_FILE ]; then
 return 1
 fi
 
 for FCGI_PID in `cat $PID_FILE`; do 
 if [ -z "${FCGI_PID}" ]; then
 return 1
 fi
 
 FCGI_RUNNING=`ps -p ${FCGI_PID} | grep ${FCGI_PID}`
 if [ -z "${FCGI_RUNNING}" ]; then
 return 1
 fi
 done;
 
 return 0
}
 
start() {
 if status; then
 echo "FCGI is already running!"
 exit 1
 else
 $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS
 fi
}

stop () { 
 if ! status; then
 echo "No PID-file at $PID_FILE found or PID not valid. Maybe not running"
 exit 1
 fi
 
 # Kill processes
 for PID_RUNNING in `cat $PID_FILE`; do
 kill -9 $PID_RUNNING
 done
 
 # Remove PID-file
 rm -f $PID_FILE
 
 # Remove Sock-File
 rm -f $SOCK_FILE
}

case "$1" in
 start)
 echo "Starting $NAME: "
 start
 echo "... DONE"
 ;;

 stop)
 echo "Stopping $NAME: "
 stop
 echo "... DONE"
 ;;

 force-reload|restart)
 echo "Stopping $NAME: "
 stop
 echo "Starting $NAME: "
 start
 echo "... DONE"
 ;;
 
 status)
 if status; then
 echo "FCGI is RUNNING"
 else
 echo "FCGI is NOT RUNNING"
 fi
 ;;
 
 *)
 echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|force-reload|restart|status}"
 exit 1
 ;;
esac

exit 0
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/munin-fastcgi
update-rc.d munin-fastcgi defaults
/etc/init.d/munin-fastcgi start

11. Restart daemons and visit your munin site

munin-node-configure

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

/etc/init.d/munin-node restart

Go to https://your.domain.com/munin/

 

Check how to add dewpoint graph on my next post.

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