mChronicle v0.10

[Ted Singh]

This is the first public release of mChronicle.

mChronicle is an open-source console application provided by Embedded Automation to process mControl v3 data log information. mChronicle allows users to parse information into a file, database or cloud aggregation system for further analysis.



Typical use cases for mChronicle actions might be:
> Write information into a Tab-separated file for import into a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel for graphing or data analysis.
> Send information to a cloud-based aggregation and analysis tool – for example, Meniscus Software or TableauSoftware.com

mChronicle does the following two tasks:
> Parses the mControl data log based on a set of dates provided
> Sends/writes the parsed information via an “Upload Manager”.

The mChronicle source includes samples for two types of Upload Managers:
> Default: Tab-based console write
> Research: Write to Aggregation database in the cloud via RESTful API

mChronicle can be extended, based on user requirements to:
> Parsing can be modified to remove or add information
> Alternative Upload Managers may be added

mChronicle can be found here: http://www.embeddedautomation.com/do...mChronicle.zip
mChronicle Quick Start Guide can be found here: http://www.embeddedautomation.com/do...rt%20Guide.pdf

[Bryan]

Ted;

This is awesome. I would love to get this information into the MContol UI. Specifically, the ipad app.

Nice work, V3 just keeps getting better!

[sharrisct25]

Particularly this does not seem to log the name of a macro and when it started or stopped just certain actions within the macro. After playing with the data for awhile What I really would want to see in order to make this usable for me would be:

Items that are pretty critical for thsi to be usefull to me at least:

1. The macro name, start date and end date.
2. When a camera stops recording it would be good if the filename it wrote the recording too was part of the log entery to make it easier to correlate.
3. Similarly when a camera takes snapshots it just logs 1 entery to say that command was issued. I would want 5 log enteries if it took 5 pictures 2 secods apart and each of the log entries should show the file name of the image taken
4. Finally a simple item of being able to write a user defined text string to the mChronical log from a macro

Items that would be nice and expand what I can do:

1. Log the communications actions from a macro like the TO, CC, and subject of emails.
2. The yahoo wather service logs very little info and I use the today_code for alot of HVAC decisions since it dictates if the day is sunny or not etc.

I am not sure what everybody else is looking to use this for but for me i am trying to replace my current scripting and macros that do a diary type function stating what events occured (i.e. macros have fired) in my home. I have been anxiously awaiting a better way to do it because the run app features that I use to do it now are unreliable plus I really want to be able to create links to the recordings and or pictures taked by the macro events within the html diary. The fact that this will also let me plot my HVAC usage against local weather conditions is also a big bonus.

Can this be done through some sort of logging level if not can this be enhanced in a near term version?