Real-time Environmental Monitoring

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December 6, 2014 at 11:43 pm #664

Lars
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I can only think of two possibillities here, both depending on if the hardware can do it.

1: Blink the ID using the ethernet port lights at boot time. Depends on the hardware having that kind of access to controlling those lights directly.

2: Run a webserver on the unit, serving only the ID. Depends on the unit having resources to run a webserver.

None of those are very user friendly though.

December 6, 2014 at 11:50 pm #667

Jeff Cooper
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How about a portal on the website that compares visitor ips with the ips of units. That way you can find your units id as long as you are connecting to the urad site from the same public ip.

December 7, 2014 at 6:23 pm #703

Lars
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@Jeff: Yes, I vote for that one!

That should also give access to correcting which location the unit is at.

December 7, 2014 at 6:31 pm #704

uRADMonitor
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Hmm…this is an excellent idea! I can’t find a scenario to invalidate it yet. But let’s think it through.

December 8, 2014 at 9:25 am #727

vinz
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Just a thought,
schools and companies often have all the same public IP.

The device has to be programmed anyways. So maybe there is a way to automatically set the ID / MAC (besides a shared secret for a hash/crc check (for data, urls, ..)).

The device has to be tested and calibrated anyways, so maybe there it can be set online and given its ID / MAC (besides a shared secret for a hash/crc check (for data, urls, ..)).

Both cases the ID is known (?) at delivery.

DIY sensors may ask for an ID on uradmonitor.com later on.

December 8, 2014 at 9:37 am #728
vinz
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Scenario (just a thought):

1) the device is soldered an programmed (all the same)
2) the device is set online while testing/calibrating at urad-laboratories
2a) it atomatically pulls its new ID and secret from a database.
3) it appears in an (online or local) website as beeing new (devices without eMail)
4) one has to enter customers eMail
5) device-id, login-data, and all wellcome-info are sent to customer automatically

(when user logs into his device on uradmonitor.com he may also need to see its local IP and a link, but that is some kinde of private information… )
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August 19, 2016 at 10:07 am #3281

uRADMonitor
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A new firmware revision will drop hardcoded device IDs, instead, when a unit is first connected to the internet, it will receive its ID from the server and store it in its EEPROM. When the station owner opens the webportal, the server will match his IP with the new station, and present a registration dialog. This window will appear until the station is fully configured (user details, email, station ID, a Boolean for configuration done, all stored in a DB table). The user will then see his new station (and any other he has) in the station admin panel where more options are available

August 19, 2016 at 10:14 am #3283

uRADMonitor
Keymaster

In progress. Will have this in place for the new devices to be shipped out.

August 19, 2016 at 10:15 am #3284

uRADMonitor
Keymaster

This will use great suggestions posted by @jeff and @vinz in https://www.uradmonitor.com/topic/automated-device-ids/

August 20, 2016 at 8:13 am #3323

uRADMonitor
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I’m happy to report this functionality is already implemented, both in firmware and in server backend, and it is now entering testing phase.
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