5)
Other interesting facts about the “Solo”
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The “Solo” is based on the Raspberry Pi model “B”, and has a really friendly power
consumption of approx < 2 W.
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Inside the box there's a SD card acting as the hard disk of the device. It is mounted in
“read only” mode, meaning that:
•
there's no problem at all unpowering the unit, the SD card will never become
corrupt. It is only written, for a very short while, after configuration changes or
a system update.
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It will take a while (minutes...), after powering the Solo, for it to retrieve the
correct time and date, please be patient!
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Also, the SD will not “worn out”; these cards had a limited number of write
operations, so being read only will extend its life almost indefinitely.
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You can get the last reading from the CloudWatcher easily to use in a program or a
personal web:
http://aagsolo/cgi-bin/cgiLastData
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In a similar way, you can get the historical data for up to 48h:
http://aagsolo/cgi-
bin/cgiHistData
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The system is quite hacker friendly; you can,
under your responsibility
, login via ssh
and tweak the web pages or whatever. For ssh connections, the user is “pi”, the
password “cloudwatcher”.
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… and, as always, your suggestions are most welcome.
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SOLO - Users manual v. 1.4 17 30. Sep. 2016
