Gateway

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The software to collect and decode the various packets transmitted by the different generations of weatherboxes

Gateway Repository:

https://github.com/scel-hawaii/data-gateway

Maintenance/User Manual:

Firmware User Manual

USB Resetting Issue
1. Implement software solution to check if USB device needs to be reset
2. Utilize Python threads
Improve Data Formatting
1. Parse Time field into separate fields
  1. Day, Month, Year, Time
Automatically Determine XBee Port
1. Appropriate error codes for corresponding unit tests

Collect incoming packets and input the data into database tables

  while no packets to process:
      wait for packets
  
  
  extract rf data from packet
  determine schema number
  If schema is 0
      decode as heartbeat packet
  else if schema is 1
      decode as apple packet
  else if schema is 2
      decode as cranberry packet
  else if schema is 3
      decode as dragonfruit packet
  
  
  Print data to stdout
  Add data to respective .csv file
  Write data to respective database table