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PImageFrame

A simple yet high quality digital photo frame on Pi with Windows IoT and Angular 2 PoC for compatibility as Windows IoT front-end framework.

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PImageFrame

Things used in this project

Hardware components

FEZ HAT
Hat with various sensors and Windows IoT ready drivers as nuget.
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Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
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Raspberry Pi Touch Display
Raspberry Pi Touch Display
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Software apps and online services

Windows 10 IoT Core
Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core
Visual Studio 2015
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

Story

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Custom parts and enclosures

Touch screen assembly instructions

Code

ServiceStartupTask.cs

C#
The service class reading sensor data.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Background;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.AppService;
using Windows.Foundation.Collections;

// The Background Application template is documented at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=533884&clcid=0x409

namespace DataCollector
{
    public sealed class ServiceStartupTask : IBackgroundTask
    {
        private AppServiceConnection _connection;
        private BackgroundTaskDeferral _deferral;
        private volatile static SensorHatProxy _proxy = null;
        private bool? _state;

        public void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance)
        {
            if (_proxy == null)
            {
                _proxy = new SensorHatProxy();
                _proxy.Init();
            }
           
            var res = _proxy.ReadSensorData();

            _deferral = taskInstance.GetDeferral();
            taskInstance.Canceled += OnTaskCanceled;

            var triggerDetails = taskInstance.TriggerDetails as AppServiceTriggerDetails;
            if (triggerDetails != null)
            {

                _connection = triggerDetails.AppServiceConnection;
                _connection.RequestReceived += Connection_RequestReceived;
            }

            
        }

        private async void Connection_RequestReceived(AppServiceConnection sender, AppServiceRequestReceivedEventArgs args)
        {
            // if you are doing anything awaitable, you need to get a deferral
            var requestDeferral = args.GetDeferral();
            var returnMessage = new ValueSet();
            try
            {
                //obtain and react to the command passed in by the client
                var message = args.Request.Message["Request"] as string;
                switch (message)
                {
                    case "SensorData":

                        CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto sd = _proxy.ReadSensorData();

                        returnMessage.Add("Temperature", sd.Temperature);
                        returnMessage.Add("LightLevel", sd.LightLevel);
                        break;
                }
                returnMessage.Add("Response", "OK");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                returnMessage.Add("Response", "Failed: " + ex.Message);
            }

            await args.Request.SendResponseAsync(returnMessage);

            //let the OS know that the action is complete
            requestDeferral.Complete();
        }

        private void OnTaskCanceled(IBackgroundTaskInstance sender, BackgroundTaskCancellationReason reason)
        {
            if (_deferral != null)
            {
                _deferral.Complete();
                _deferral = null;
            }
        }
    }
}

SensorDataServicePoll.cs

C#
Class responsible for polling data from background service.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.AppService;
using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
using Windows.System.Threading;

namespace BLL
{
    public class SensorDataServicePoll
    {
        private ThreadPoolTimer _timer;

        private static volatile bool _running;

        public CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto SensorData { get; set; }

        public SensorDataServicePoll()
        {
            _timer = ThreadPoolTimer.CreatePeriodicTimer(_timerElapsed, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
        }

        private async void _timerElapsed(ThreadPoolTimer timer)
        {
            if (_running) return;
            _running = true;
            try
            {
                var data = await PollData();
                if (data != null)
                {
                    SensorData = data;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(ex);
            }
            finally
            {
                _running = false;
            }
        }

        private async Task<CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto> PollData()
        {
            CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto result = null;

            using (var dataService = new AppServiceConnection())
            {
                var listing = await AppServiceCatalog.FindAppServiceProvidersAsync("DataCollectorInterface");
                var packageName = "";

                // there may be cases where other applications could expose the same App Service Name, in our case
                // we only have the one
                if (listing.Count == 1)
                {
                    packageName = listing[0].PackageFamilyName;
                }

                dataService.AppServiceName = "DataCollectorInterface";
                dataService.PackageFamilyName = packageName;
                var status = await dataService.OpenAsync();

                if (status == AppServiceConnectionStatus.Success)
                {
                    var msg = new ValueSet();
                    msg.Add("Request", "SensorData");
                    AppServiceResponse request = await dataService.SendMessageAsync(msg);

                    if (request.Status == AppServiceResponseStatus.Success)
                    {
                        CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto data = new CrossCuttingRT.Dto.SensorsDataDto();

                        data.Temperature = request.Message["Temperature"] as double?;
                        data.LightLevel = request.Message["LightLevel"] as double?;
                        result = data;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Request Response Status: " + status.ToString());
                    }
                }
            }

            return result;
        }

    }
}

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Credits

Patricia

Patricia

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A c# developer. As child i used to play with electronics and this source of fun is living up again in me, as we enter the age of IoT.

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