Elizabeth VicarteStephanie VicarteIrak Mayer
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GPS Drivers Log

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GPS Drivers Log

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Hardware components

WIZ750SR
WIZnet WIZ750SR
×1
Adafruit Ultimate GPS FeatherWing
×1
Adafruit FeatherWing OLED
×1
Adafruit Feather M0 Adalogger
×1
3.7 V LiPo Battery
×1

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GPS data logger and Server using WIZ750SR and Feather family boards

Arduino
Main program to collect GPS data and serve clients to transfer the data thru the WIZ750SR
//GPS logger program using a Feather Adalogger, GPS feather wing and an OLED feather wing boards.
//7-18-2018
//IVM
//
     
#include <Adafruit_GPS.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <SD.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>
#include <Arduino.h>   // required before wiring_private.h
#include "wiring_private.h" // require to activate second UART

const int chipSelect = 4;

//OLED variable instance
Adafruit_SSD1306 display = Adafruit_SSD1306();

//Pins for OLED buttons.
  #define BUTTON_A 9
  #define BUTTON_B 6
  #define BUTTON_C 5
  #define LED      13

// Serial port for the GPS module
#define GPSSerial Serial1

// Connect to the GPS on the hardware port
Adafruit_GPS GPS(&GPSSerial);
     
// Set GPSECHO to 'false' to turn off echoing the GPS data to the Serial console
// Set to 'true' if you want to debug and listen to the raw GPS sentences
#define GPSECHO false

//Set the log filename
#define LOGFILENAME "GPSdlog.txt"

//Interval timer.
uint32_t timer = millis();

//Menu related variables.
int MenuSel = 0;
int CurrMenuSel = 0;
double varMPH = 0.0;
int varQuality = 0;
String varTime="";

bool varConnected = false;

#define ADDNEWSERIAL 1

//Simple activation keyword between server and client.
#define PASSCODE "gpsData"

//#ifdef ADDNEWSERIAL
//Initialize 2nd UART port.
Uart Serial2 (&sercom1, 11, 10, SERCOM_RX_PAD_0, UART_TX_PAD_2);
void SERCOM1_Handler()
{
  Serial2.IrqHandler();
}
//#endif

//Displays the main menu on the OLED display
void DisplayMainMenu()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Welcome. The digital drivers log book");
  display.println("A start GPS log");
  display.println("C transfer log.");
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.display(); 
  
}

//Displays the start gps log menu on the OLED display
void DisplayConfirm()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Press Button B");
  display.println("to start GPS Log");
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.display(); 
}

//Displays the gps log menu on the OLED display
void DisplayGPSLog()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("GPS Log Data.");
  display.display(); 
}

//Displays the server connection menu on the OLED display
void DisplayWizNet()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Opening Server");
  display.println("Waiting...");
  display.display(); 
}

//Displays the start connection menu on the OLED display
void DisplayConnect()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Connected.");
  display.println("Press B to start");
  display.println("Download");
  display.display(); 
}

//Displays the Downloading menu on the OLED display
void DisplayDownloading()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Start Transfer Data");
  display.println("Download...");
  display.display(); 
  
}

//Displays status information on the OLED display
void DisplayUpdateSpeed()
{
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("GPS Log Data.");
  display.print("Speed(mph): ");
  display.println(String(varMPH));
  display.print("Quality: ");
  display.println(String(varQuality));
  display.print("Time: ");
  display.println(varTime);
  display.display();
}

//Initialize SD card
bool InitSD()
{
    if (!SD.begin(chipSelect)) {
    Serial.println("Card failed, or not present");
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

void setup()
{
  //while (!Serial);  // uncomment to have the sketch wait until Serial is ready
  
  // connect at 115200 so we can read the GPS fast enough and echo without dropping chars
  // also spit it out
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.println("Adafruit GPS library basic test!");
  
  //Init display
  display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3C);  
  //Status information displayed.
  display.clearDisplay();
  display.display();
  display.setTextSize(1);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(0,0);
  display.println("Init SD card.");
  display.display(); 
     
  Serial.print("Initializing SD card...");

  //Start SD card
  if (!InitSD())
    return;
  
  display.println("Init SD card OK.");
  display.println("Init GPS.");
  display.display(); 
  
  Serial.println("card initialized.");
  // 9600 NMEA is the default baud rate for Adafruit MTK GPS's
  GPS.begin(9600);
  // Turn on RMC (recommended minimum) and GGA (fix data) including altitude
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCGGA);
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_1HZ); // 1 Hz update rate
  GPS.sendCommand(PGCMD_ANTENNA);

  \\Give it time to initialize
  delay(1000);
  
  // Ask for firmware version
  GPSSerial.println(PMTK_Q_RELEASE);

  display.println("Init GPS OK.");
  display.display(); 
 

  Serial.println("OLED FeatherWing test");
  

  display.display();
  delay(1000);

//#ifdef ADDNEWSERIAL
  //Initialize second UART matching the settings for the WIZ750SR
   Serial2.begin(115200);
  // Assign pins 10 & 11 SERCOM functionality
  pinPeripheral(10, PIO_SERCOM);
  pinPeripheral(11, PIO_SERCOM);
//#endif

  Serial.println("IO test");

  //Initialize OLED buttons on the feather win.
  pinMode(BUTTON_A, INPUT_PULLUP);
  pinMode(BUTTON_B, INPUT_PULLUP);
  pinMode(BUTTON_C, INPUT_PULLUP);

  //Initialize Menu text.
  DisplayMainMenu(); 
}

//Function that takes care of GPS collection data and save to the SD card.
void ProcessGPS()
{
  // read data from the GPS 
  char c = GPS.read();
  // Send to serial if you really need to.
  if (GPSECHO)
    if (c) Serial.print(c);
  // Sentence is received?
  if (GPS.newNMEAreceived()) 
  {
#ifdef DEBUG_DATA
    Serial.println(GPS.lastNMEA()); // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false
#endif
    if (!GPS.parse(GPS.lastNMEA())) // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false
      return; // if sentence is not complete.
  }
  // check the timer, if over the threshold --> reset.
  if (timer > millis()) timer = millis();
     
  // every 2 seconds or so, print out the current stats
  if (millis() - timer > 2000) 
  {
    timer = millis(); // reset the timer

//Display the GPS data if needed
#ifdef DEBUG_DATA
    Serial.print("\nTime: ");
    Serial.print(GPS.hour, DEC); Serial.print(':');  //time
    Serial.print(GPS.minute, DEC); Serial.print(':');
    Serial.print(GPS.seconds, DEC); Serial.print('.');
    Serial.println(GPS.milliseconds);
    Serial.print("Date: "); //date
    Serial.print(GPS.day, DEC); Serial.print('/');
    Serial.print(GPS.month, DEC); Serial.print("/20");
    Serial.println(GPS.year, DEC);
    Serial.print("Fix: "); Serial.print((int)GPS.fix); //Satellite link stablish status
    Serial.print(" quality: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.fixquality); //Quality of link
#endif

    //If a link to a satellite is stablished.
    if (GPS.fix) 
    {
      //Initialize data container.
      String dataString = "";

//Display the GPS data if needed
#ifdef DEBUG_DATA
      Serial.print("Location: ");
      Serial.print(GPS.latitude, 4); Serial.print(GPS.lat);
      Serial.print(", ");
      Serial.print(GPS.longitude, 4); Serial.println(GPS.lon);
      Serial.print("Speed (knots): "); Serial.println(GPS.speed);
      Serial.print("Angle: "); Serial.println(GPS.angle);
      Serial.print("Altitude: "); Serial.println(GPS.altitude);
      Serial.print("Satellites: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.satellites);
#endif


      // open the file. 
      File dataFile = SD.open(LOGFILENAME, FILE_WRITE);
    
      // if the file is available, write to it:
      if (dataFile) 
      {
        //Add the data to the string buffer
        dataString += "Time: ";
        dataString += String(GPS.hour);
        dataString += ":";
        dataString += String(GPS.minute);
        dataString += ":";
        dataString += String(GPS.seconds);
        dataString += ".";
        dataString += String(GPS.milliseconds);
        varTime = String(GPS.hour);
        varTime += ":";
        varTime += String(GPS.minute);
        varTime += ":";
        varTime += String(GPS.seconds);
        varTime += ".";
        varTime += String(GPS.milliseconds);
        dataString += " Date: ";
        dataString += String(GPS.day);
        dataString += "-";
        dataString += String(GPS.month);
        dataString += "-20";
        dataString += String(GPS.year);
        dataString += " Fix: "; 
        dataString += String((int)GPS.fix);
        dataString += " quality: "; 
        dataString += String((int)GPS.fixquality);
        dataString += "Location: ";
        dataString += String(GPS.latitude);
        dataString += String(GPS.lat);
        dataString += String(", ");
        dataString += String(GPS.longitude);
        dataString += String(GPS.lon);
        dataString += String(", ");
        dataString += " Speed (knots): ";
        dataString += String(GPS.speed);
        dataString += String(", ");
        dataString += " Angle: ";
        dataString += String(GPS.angle);
        dataString += String(", ");
        dataString += " Altitude: ";
        dataString += String(GPS.altitude);
        dataString += String(", ");
        dataString += " Satellites: ";
        dataString += String((int)GPS.satellites);

        //Convert gps speed from knots to mph.
        varMPH = GPS.speed * 1.15078;
        varQuality = (int)GPS.fixquality;
        //Update speed to OLED display
        DisplayUpdateSpeed();
        
        dataFile.println(dataString);
        dataFile.close();
        // print to the serial port too:
#ifdef DEBUG_DATA
        Serial.print(dataString);
#endif

      }
      // if the file isn't open, pop up an error:
      else {
        Serial.println("error opening datalog.txt");
      }

    }
  }
}

//Function to read the gps log file and transfer it to the client.
bool SendFile()
{
  File dataFile = SD.open(LOGFILENAME);

  if (dataFile) {
    while (dataFile.available()) {
      //Send data thru UART 2 port
      Serial2.write(dataFile.read());
    }
    dataFile.close();
    Serial2.write("Bye");
  }
  // if the file isn't open, pop up an error:
  else {
    Serial.println("error opening datalog.txt");
    return false;
  }
  
  return true;
}

//Function that waits for a client to connect. The function checks for the passcode to match in order to start a communication link.
bool Connect2Client()
{
  //return true;
  
  if (Serial2.available()) 
  {
    String dataRead="";
    
    while (Serial2.available())
    {
      char inByte = Serial2.read();
      if (inByte != '\n' && inByte != '\r')
        dataRead += inByte;
      Serial.write(inByte);
      delay(50);
    }

    Serial.print(String(dataRead.length()));
    Serial.print(String(PASSCODE).length());
    Serial.println(dataRead);
    //Check for passcode. If correct return communicaton stablished.
    if (dataRead.compareTo(String(PASSCODE)) == 0)
      return true;
    
  }
  
  return false;
}

//Main menu loop.
void loop() // run over and over again
{

//Menu Selection.
  if (CurrMenuSel == 0)
  {
    
    if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_A))
    {
      MenuSel =  1;
    }
    
    if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_C)) 
    {
      varConnected = false;
      MenuSel = 3;
    }
  }
  else if (CurrMenuSel == 1)
  {
      if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_B)) 
      {
        MenuSel = 2;
      }

      if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_C)) 
      {
        MenuSel = 0;
      }
  }
  else if (CurrMenuSel == 2)
  {
      ProcessGPS();
     
      if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_A))
      {
        MenuSel =  0;
      }
      
      if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_C)) 
      {
        MenuSel = 0;
      }
  }
  else if (CurrMenuSel == 3)
  {
      if (!varConnected)
      {
        if (Connect2Client())
        {
          varConnected = true;
          DisplayConnect();
        }
      }
      
      if (!digitalRead(BUTTON_B)) 
      {
        if (varConnected == true)
        {
          MenuSel =4;
        }
        else
        {
          MenuSel = 0;
        }
      }

      if (! digitalRead(BUTTON_A))
      {
        MenuSel =  0;
      }
  }
  else if (CurrMenuSel == 4)
  {
     
    {
      SendFile();
    }

    MenuSel = 0;
  }

//Main task execute 
   if (CurrMenuSel != MenuSel)
   {
     if (MenuSel == 0)
     {
        DisplayMainMenu();
     }
     else if (MenuSel == 1)
     {
        DisplayConfirm();
     }
     else if (MenuSel  == 2)
     {
        DisplayGPSLog();
     }
     else if (MenuSel == 3)
     {
        DisplayWizNet();
     }
     else if (MenuSel == 4)
     {
        DisplayDownloading();
     }

//Try to clear the buffer from the buttons
     CurrMenuSel = MenuSel;
     digitalRead(BUTTON_A);
     digitalRead(BUTTON_B);
     digitalRead(BUTTON_C);
   }
      
}

Python client to get GPS data from logger

Python
Request a connection to the server (data logger), sends passcode, receives data and saves on a local file.
import socket
import sys

def client_prog():
    host = "192.168.1.75"
    port = 5000
    initFile = False
    outFile = None
    outfilename ="gpsDatalog.txt"

    #initialize a socket
    client_socket = socket.socket()
    #Request a communication link with the server
    client_socket.connect((host, port))

    #Passcode
    message = "gpsData"

    #Meanwhile server does not send the close link passcode
    while message.lower().strip() != 'bye':
        #Send passcode
        client_socket.send(message.encode())
        #Read data from server
        data = client_socket.recv(1024).decode()

        #Print debug information or data received.
        print('Received from server: '+data)

        #if file has not being initialize then open file.
        if (initFile == False):
            outFile = open(outfilename,'w')
            initFile = True

        #Write to file data raceived.
        outFile.write(data)
        message = data[-4:]

    #close the communication channel
    client_socket.close()
    #close file
    outFile.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    client_prog()

Credits

Elizabeth Vicarte

Elizabeth Vicarte

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Stephanie Vicarte

Stephanie Vicarte

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Irak Mayer

Irak Mayer

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