Cabin Pi

For our first public project, FPHI is working on the creation of an off the grid cabin monitoring system. At it's core, a Raspberry Pi 3 will monitor environmental and cabin systems and make the information available to the public.

Here's the current plan.

Environmental inputs:

• Interior Temperature
• Exterior Temperature
• Humidity
• Barometric Pressure

System Input:

• From the charge controller, read the solar cell and battery levels
• Monitor the power consumption of the Pi itself

Output:

• Write the collected data to a remote InfluxDB, for rendering with Grafana.
• Take occasional pictures (using the Pi Cam) and post to "the cloud".

Connectivity:

• Use a cellular modem to transfer data out and provide remote shell capability

So that's the nutshell summary. We'll use this space to record the difficulties in achieving these goals.