Steve M.
Created June 17, 2019 © GPL3+

Why is water dripping from my ceiling?

Condensation in your attic can lead to health problems and expensive repairs. Is there a simple way to alert when there's danger?

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Why is water dripping from my ceiling?

Things used in this project

Hardware components

SmartEdge Agile Brainium
Avnet SmartEdge Agile Brainium
A powerful little sensor package in an easy-to-use format.
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iPhone
Apple iPhone
Used as gateway for the Agile device
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Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
Easy way to develop the needed software interface in Python.
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Software apps and online services

SMS Messaging API
Twilio SMS Messaging API
Very cool service to enable SMS messaging.
Thonny
Thonny is a Python IDE built into the RPi I was using. Simple but effective.

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Code

Atticmon.py

Python
This is the code required to make the project work
import uuid

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt

import json

import time

from twilio.rest import Client

#Variables
T = 0.0  #temp in deg C
H = 0.0 #humidity in %
samplefreq = 1 #temp and humid sample frequency in seconds
okmsgfreq = 24 #how often to send an ok message in hours
numsamples = 0 #number of times we have sampled without condensation
condensealert = 'Check attic! You may have condensation.'
okmsg = 'No condensation for the last ' + str(okmsgfreq) + ' hours.'


#Twilio info
twilio_account_sid = "your account side here"
twilio_auth_token = "your auth token here"
to_number = "+1your to number here"
from_number = "+1your from number here"

#Connection Info
mqtt_user_name = 'your username here'
mqtt_password = 'your password here'  # copy and paste here external client id from your account
user_id = 'your user id here'  # copy and paste here your user id
device_id = 'your device id here' # copy and paste here your device id

#MQTT stuff
alerts_topic = '/v1/users/{user_id}/in/alerts'.format(user_id=user_id)
acc_norm_datasource_topic = '/v1/users/{user_id}/in/devices/{device_id}/datasources/ACCELERATION_NORM'.format(
    user_id=user_id,
    device_id=device_id)

humid_topic ='/v1/users/{user_id}/in/devices/{device_id}/datasources/HUMIDITY'.format(user_id=user_id, device_id=device_id)
temp_topic ='/v1/users/{user_id}/in/devices/{device_id}/datasources/HUMIDITY_TEMPERATURE'.format(user_id=user_id, device_id=device_id)


#Cert stuff
ca_cert_path = 'cacert.crt'  

# Function that tests for condensation and messages accordingly
def condensationtest(T, H):
    global numsamples  #make numsamples able to be changed in this function
    client = Client(twilio_account_sid, twilio_auth_token) #set up Twilio client
    
    
    dp= T - (100-H)/5  #approximation of dewpoint
    #Troubleshooting helpers.  Uncomment if needed.
    #print('Here is Temp, Humidity, Dewpoint')
    #print(T)
    #print(H)
    #print(dp)
    
    if T < dp:
        condense_msg="Warning! Conditions for condensations exist."
        print(condense_msg)
        message = client.messages.create(
            to= to_number,
            from_=from_number,
            body=condense_msg)
    
    else:
        no_condense_msg= "No condensation for the last " + str(okmsgfreq) + " hours."
        print(no_condense_msg)
        numsamples = numsamples + 1  #Increment number of samples counter
        print("There have been " + str(numsamples) + " with no condensation.")
        howlong = numsamples * samplefreq  #Calculate how long we have gone in sec with no condensation 
        if (howlong / 3600) >= okmsgfreq:  
            message = client.messages.create(
            to= to_number,
            from_=from_number,
            body=no_condense_msg)
            print('Just sent ok message')


def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    print('Connected with result code {code}'.format(code=rc))  #Tells us if connection was made
    

def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
    #print('Msg received from topic={topic}\n{content}'.format(topic=msg.topic, content=str(msg.payload)))
    global T  #Makes T changeable in this function
    global H  #Makes H changeable in this function
    
    
    m_decode=str(msg.payload.decode("utf-8","ignore"))
    m_in=json.loads(m_decode)
    whatiget=(m_in[0]["scalar"])
    print(str(whatiget))
    
    print('=' + str(msg.topic))
    if ("TEMPERATURE" in str(msg.topic)):
        T=whatiget
    else:
        H=whatiget
        print('about to call condensationtest')
        condensationtest(T,H)
    


def main():
    
    #this stuff came from Brainium
    client = mqtt.Client(client_id=str(uuid.uuid4()), transport='websockets')
    client.on_connect = on_connect
    client.on_message = on_message

    client.tls_set(ca_certs=ca_cert_path)
    client.username_pw_set(mqtt_user_name, mqtt_password)

    client.connect('ns01-wss.brainium.com', 443)

    #client.subscribe(alerts_topic) - not needed
    #client.subscribe(acc_norm_datasource_topic) - not needed
    
    client.subscribe(temp_topic)
    client.subscribe(humid_topic)
    while True:
        client.loop()
        print('  ')  #put some space between loops in what is printed to the log
        print('  ')  #put some space between loops in what is printed to the log
        time.sleep(samplefreq) #wait in between messages based on samplefreq variable
    
    
    
    


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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