Danger Brewing: Hub

A NodeBot Kegerator.

Overview

This "hub" sends data from your kegerator to Firebase, so you can monitor your kegerator in real-time with Danger Brewing.

It supports collecting data from:

• Flow meters - to monitor beer distribution
• Sensors - to monitor temperature, humidity, etc.

Parts

Required

• Raspberry Pi 3
• Cobbler
• 5v Power Supply
• MicroSD
• Flow Meter(s) - 1 for each beer line.
• Operating System - Raspbian Jessie

Optional

• Monochrome 128x32 OLED
• Tactile Button - required if using a display
• 10K Ohm Resistor
• 4.7K Ohm Resistor
• Flow Meter(s)
• Temperature + Humidity Sensor
• Temperature Sensor

The Danger Brewing Hub currently only supports DS18B20 and AM2302 temperature sensors.

It also only supports an SSD1306 OLED display.

Wiring Diagram

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Shown with all parts

Setup Your Pi

• Operating System Installation
  • Download Raspian Jessie Lite.
  • Put Raspian on your SD card. Follow instructions here
• Opearting System Configuration
  • Initially, you will need an external display and keyboard. Get those, plug in and power on the pi.
    • When your pi boots up, log in with:
      • username: pi
      • password: raspberry (we'll change this later)
  • Type sudo raspi-config
    • Expand file system
    • Internationalization options - adjust as necessary.
    • Change your password - if you want
    • Advanced Options - Hostname - change the hostname of your Pi (optional)
    • Advanced Options - Enable I2C
    • Advanced Options - Enable One-Wire
    • Advanced Options - Enable SSH
    • Reboot
  • Setup Wifi
    • Follow the instructions here
      • You can now ditch your keyboard and display.
      • sudo reboot
      • Find the IP address of your Pi on your network
      • ssh [email protected]
      • Enter password: raspberry
  • Install updates
    • sudo apt-get update
    • sudo apt-get upgrade
  • Install node
    • cd /tmp
    • wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
    • sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
  • Install git
    • sudo apt-get install git
• Danger Brewing Configuration
  • Support for BCM2835 one-wire sensor:
    • cd /tmp
    • wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.50.tar.gz
    • tar xvfz bcm2835-1.49.tar.gz
    • cd bcm2835-1.49/
    • ./configure
    • make
    • sudo make install
  • Support for DS18B20 one-wire sensor:
    • Your circuit should be setup, (see wiring diagram)
    • sudo nano /boot/config.txt
    • At the end of this file, add: dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=XX
      • XX is the GPIO pin your sensor is plugged in to.
    • sudo modprobe w1-gpio pullup=1
    • sudo modprobe w1-therm strong_pullup=1
  • Reboot your pi
    • sudo reboot

Setup The Application & Sensors

• First setup your Danger Brewing application with Firebase.
  • Follow the directions found here
• Setup Service Account
  • Follow the instructions here
  • Hold on to this .json file.
• Get the Code
  • cd /home/pi
  • git clone https://github.com/jonpitch/danger-brewing-hub.git
  • cd /danger-brewing-hub
  • npm install
  • reboot your pi: sudo reboot
• Setup your configuration
  • From your computer: scp <your service account .json file> [email protected]:/home/pi/danger-brewing-hub/config/service-account.json
  • From the pi: cp /config/default.example.json /config/default.json
  • Update firebase ENV values with your own.
  • Update hub.id with your hub id from Firebase.
  • Configure taps:
    • tap.id should map to a tap in Firebase.
    • tap.pin should map to a pin your flow meter is connected to. See here for more information.
  • Configure sensors (optional):
    • If you don't have any, leave as an empty array []
    • am2302 sensors:
      • type: Should remain am2302
      • id: Should map to a Firebase id
      • pin: Should be an integer, the GPIO pin your sensor is connected to.
      • polling: A value in milliseconds, how often this sensor should send data.
    • ds18b20 sensors:
      • type: Should remain ds18b20
      • id: Should map to a Firebase id
      • address: Should map to your sensors address
        • To find this address, there's a good overview here
        • If you followed the OS setup and your sensor is installed properly:
          • cd /sys/bus/w1/devices
          • ls
          • The 28-xxx is your address.
      • polling: A value in milliseconds, how often this sensor should send data.
  • Configure display (optional):
    • If you don't have one, remove it from the config.
    • type: ssd1306 (the only display currently supported)
    • w: How many columns wide (64, 128, etc.)
    • h: How many rows high (32, 64, etc.)
    • address: The I2C address of the display
      • If your display is hooked up correctly: i2cdetect -y 1
      • If you need help understanding the output, try here
    • toggle: This should be your toggle's pin.
    • If you're feeling crazy, greetings and goodbyes are messages to display at random when you turn on or off your display. tip: keep them short.
  • Run the hub
    • cd /home/pi/danger-brewing-hub
    • ./run.sh
  • Checking for updates
    • cd /home/pi/danger-brewing-hub
    • git pull

Developers

Building

• npm run build

Output is in /lib

Running

• ./run.sh

Contributing

• Feel free to help out. Take a look if there are any open issues, bugs or if you want to just make the danger-brewing-hub better, go for it!

Additional Resources

• Johnny Five
• Raspi-IO
• oled-js
• node-dht-sensor
• ds18x20
• Raspberry Pi Pin Information
• Fritzing - Wire Diagrams