PREPARATION FOR USING THE ARDUINO AS AN I/O INTERFACE ON A WEB ENABLED SYSTEM
John T. Rine
The object of this project is to create Arduino and CGI applications that will be used in combination to monitor sensors and use the returned data to control a process over the World Wide Web.
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Web servers use the client/server model. That is, the client makes a request, and the server responds by fullfilling that request.When a URL to a Web page is entered into the Web browser, the browser segments it into protocol, server, and resource (page). The browser then sends a request for a particular page (resource to the server, and the server responds by sending the requested page; in the case of a Web page, it sends it encoded as HTML. When the browser gets the page, it interprets it and then displays it.
There are many protocols used for different purposes across the Internet for example, HTTP-Hypertext Transfer Protocol, FTP-File Transfer Protocol, and HTTPS-Secure HTTP. The communication protocol used to request and serve unsecure Web pages is HTTP. As we learned in our networking fundamentals course, the well known port for HTTP is port 80. So a Web server listens at port 80 (usually) for a request from a Web client.
CGI is a specification for transferring information between a Web server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that follows the CGI specification. A CGI program could be written in any one of a number of programming and scripting languages.
In order for the scripts or programs to be executed, a Web server must be installed. Next, the file or files to be executed must be in a specific directory on the Web server. The CGI program can then be executed by including the bin-cgi directory and filename in the URL, for example: http://10.80.2.179/cgi-bin/example.
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on AVR microcontrollers and ICs which make communications between an Arduino and other platforms very easy to implement, for example the FTDI USB serial IC and driver.
1. Install the Arduino IDE on a computer
Start the Arduino install by following the instructions on the following Web page: http://arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Debian. On this page, follow the “previous non-packaged approach:” section of the installation instructions.
Preparation for the Arduino IDE installation:
bob@dhcp-179:~$ su Password: root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre gcc-avr avr-libc avrdude Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils-avr ca-certificates-java icedtea-6-jre-cacao java-common libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib tzdata-java Suggested packages: avrdude-doc task-c-devel gcc-doc gcc-4.2 default-jre equivs icedtea6-plugin sun-java6-fonts ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts ttf-unfonts-core ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-wqy-microhei ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-indic-fonts The following NEW packages will be installed: avr-libc avrdude binutils-avr ca-certificates-java gcc-avr icedtea-6-jre-cacao java-common libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib tzdata-java 0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 49.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 149 MB of additional disk space will be used. 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Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b18-1.8.3-2+squeeze1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/keytool to provide /usr/bin/keytool (keytool) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/pack200 to provide /usr/bin/pack200 (pack200) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/rmid to provide /usr/bin/rmid (rmid) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/rmiregistry to provide /usr/bin/rmiregistry (rmiregistry) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/unpack200 to provide /usr/bin/unpack200 (unpack200) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/orbd to provide /usr/bin/orbd (orbd) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/servertool to provide /usr/bin/servertool (servertool) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/tnameserv to provide /usr/bin/tnameserv (tnameserv) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jexec to provide /usr/bin/jexec (jexec) in auto mode. 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2. Write an Arduino application which reads character commands from the serial port and then performs the commands. If a command is to return data via the serial port, the application is to do so.
//http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogReadSerial
//http://www.arduino.cc/en/Serial/Read
//http://www.arduino.cc/en/Serial/Available
//http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/DigitalRead
//http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/DigitalWrite
//Author: John T. Rine
int serialIn = 0;
int sensorValue = 0;
int digitalValue = 0;
int pin7 = 7;
int pin6 = 6;
int pin6State = LOW;
int pinState = LOW;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(pin7, INPUT);
pinMode(pin6, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
if (Serial.available() > 0)
{
serialIn = Serial.read();
switch(serialIn)
{
case 'a':
sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
Serial.println(sensorValue, DEC);
serialIn = '\0';
break;
case 'd':
digitalValue = digitalRead(pin7);
Serial.println(digitalValue, DEC);
serialIn = '\0';
break;
case 'o':
if(pin6State == LOW)
{
pinState = HIGH;
pin6State = HIGH;
}
else
{
pinState = LOW;
pin6State = LOW;
}
digitalWrite(pin6, pinState);
break;
}
}
}
3. If a Web server is not installed, Install the Apache 2 Web server software on the hardware which is to host the server.
After logging in as root, I performed an apt-get install of the apache 2 Web server packages.
root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc apache2-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-worker apache2.2-common Suggested packages: apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-common 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,779 kB of archives. After this operation, 15.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. 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Setting up apache2 (2.2.16-6+squeeze1) ... Setting up apache2-doc (2.2.16-6+squeeze1) ... Reloading web server config: apache2. root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# apt-get install libapache2-mod-ruby Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libapache-ruby1.8 libreadline5 libruby1.8 Suggested packages: liberuby The following NEW packages will be installed: libapache-ruby1.8 libapache2-mod-ruby libreadline5 libruby1.8 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,180 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,147 kB of additional disk space will be used. 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Unpacking libapache2-mod-ruby (from .../libapache2-mod-ruby_1.2.6-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up libreadline5 (5.2-7) ... Setting up libruby1.8 (1.8.7.302-2) ... Setting up libapache-ruby1.8 (1.2.6-2) ... Setting up libapache2-mod-ruby (1.2.6-2) ... Enabling module ruby. Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration! root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libapache2-reload-perl libbsd-resource-perl libdevel-symdump-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-reload-perl libbsd-resource-perl libdevel-symdump-perl 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,146 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,063 kB of additional disk space will be used. 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After this operation, 4,788 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze/main mysql-common all 5.1.49-3 [70.9 kB] Get:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze/main libmysqlclient16 i386 5.1.49-3 [1,935 kB] Get:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze/main python-mysqldb i386 1.2.2-10+b1 [95.8 kB] Fetched 2,101 kB in 5s (374 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package mysql-common. (Reading database ... 128154 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mysql-common (from .../mysql-common_5.1.49-3_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient16. Unpacking libmysqlclient16 (from .../libmysqlclient16_5.1.49-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package python-mysqldb. Unpacking python-mysqldb (from .../python-mysqldb_1.2.2-10+b1_i386.deb) ... Setting up mysql-common (5.1.49-3) ... Setting up libmysqlclient16 (5.1.49-3) ... Setting up python-mysqldb (1.2.2-10+b1) ... Processing triggers for python-support ... root@dhcp-179:/home/bob# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php-pear php5-xcache Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-prefork libonig2 libqdbm14 php5-cli php5-common php5-suhosin Suggested packages: php5-dev The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2-mpm-worker The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 libonig2 libqdbm14 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-suhosin php5-xcache 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7,101 kB of archives. After this operation, 20.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. 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4. Write a CGI application or a PHP script which will give commands to the Arduino based upon commands handed to it from the Web and return data as required.
I found the following Linux C Arduino serial code at: http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/06/arduino-serial-c-code-to-talk-to-arduino/.
/*
* Arduino-serial
* --------------
*
* A simple command-line example program showing how a computer can
* communicate with an Arduino board. Works on any POSIX system (Mac/Unix/PC)
*
*
* Compile with something like:
* gcc -o arduino-serial arduino-serial.c
*
* Created 5 December 2006
* Copyleft (c) 2006, Tod E. Kurt, tod@todbot.com
* http://todbot.com/blog/
*
*
* Updated 8 December 2006:
* Justin McBride discoevered B14400 & B28800 aren't in Linux's termios.h.
* I've included his patch, but commented out for now. One really needs a
* real make system when doing cross-platform C and I wanted to avoid that
* for this little program. Those baudrates aren't used much anyway. :)
*
* Updated 26 December 2007:
* Added ability to specify a delay (so you can wait for Arduino Diecimila)
* Added ability to send a binary byte number
*
* Update 31 August 2008:
* Added patch to clean up odd baudrates from Andy at hexapodia.org
*
*/
#include <stdio.h> /* Standard input/output definitions */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h> /* Standard types */
#include <string.h> /* String function definitions */
#include <unistd.h> /* UNIX standard function definitions */
#include <fcntl.h> /* File control definitions */
#include <errno.h> /* Error number definitions */
#include <termios.h> /* POSIX terminal control definitions */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <getopt.h>
void usage(void);
int serialport_init(const char* serialport, int baud);
int serialport_writebyte(int fd, uint8_t b);
int serialport_write(int fd, const char* str);
int serialport_read_until(int fd, char* buf, char until);
void usage(void) {
printf("Usage: arduino-serial -p <serialport> [OPTIONS]\n"
"\n"
"Options:\n"
" -h, --help Print this help message\n"
" -p, --port=serialport Serial port Arduino is on\n"
" -b, --baud=baudrate Baudrate (bps) of Arduino\n"
" -s, --send=data Send data to Arduino\n"
" -r, --receive Receive data from Arduino & print it out\n"
" -n --num=num Send a number as a single byte\n"
" -d --delay=millis Delay for specified milliseconds\n"
"\n"
"Note: Order is important. Set '-b' before doing '-p'. \n"
" Used to make series of actions: '-d 2000 -s hello -d 100 -r' \n"
" means 'wait 2secs, send 'hello', wait 100msec, get reply'\n"
"\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd = 0;
char serialport[256];
int baudrate = B9600; // default
char buf[256];
int rc,n;
if (argc==1) {
usage();
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
/* parse options */
int option_index = 0, opt;
static struct option loptions[] = {
{"help", no_argument, 0, 'h'},
{"port", required_argument, 0, 'p'},
{"baud", required_argument, 0, 'b'},
{"send", required_argument, 0, 's'},
{"receive", no_argument, 0, 'r'},
{"num", required_argument, 0, 'n'},
{"delay", required_argument, 0, 'd'}
};
while(1) {
opt = getopt_long (argc, argv, "hp:b:s:rn:d:",
loptions, &option_index);
if (opt==-1) break;
switch (opt) {
case '0': break;
case 'd':
n = strtol(optarg,NULL,10);
usleep(n * 1000 ); // sleep milliseconds
break;
case 'h':
usage();
break;
case 'b':
baudrate = strtol(optarg,NULL,10);
break;
case 'p':
strcpy(serialport,optarg);
fd = serialport_init(optarg, baudrate);
if(fd==-1) return -1;
break;
case 'n':
n = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); // convert string to number
rc = serialport_writebyte(fd, (uint8_t)n);
if(rc==-1) return -1;
break;
case 's':
strcpy(buf,optarg);
rc = serialport_write(fd, buf);
if(rc==-1) return -1;
break;
case 'r':
serialport_read_until(fd, buf, '\n');
printf("read: %s\n",buf);
break;
}
}
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
} // end main
int serialport_writebyte( int fd, uint8_t b)
{
int n = write(fd,&b,1);
if( n!=1)
return -1;
return 0;
}
int serialport_write(int fd, const char* str)
{
int len = strlen(str);
int n = write(fd, str, len);
if( n!=len )
return -1;
return 0;
}
int serialport_read_until(int fd, char* buf, char until)
{
char b[1];
int i=0;
do {
int n = read(fd, b, 1); // read a char at a time
if( n==-1) return -1; // couldn't read
if( n==0 ) {
usleep( 10 * 1000 ); // wait 10 msec try again
continue;
}
buf[i] = b[0]; i++;
} while( b[0] != until );
buf[i] = 0; // null terminate the string
return 0;
}
// takes the string name of the serial port (e.g. "/dev/tty.usbserial","COM1")
// and a baud rate (bps) and connects to that port at that speed and 8N1.
// opens the port in fully raw mode so you can send binary data.
// returns valid fd, or -1 on error
int serialport_init(const char* serialport, int baud)
{
struct termios toptions;
int fd;
//fprintf(stderr,"init_serialport: opening port %s @ %d bps\n",
// serialport,baud);
fd = open(serialport, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);
if (fd == -1) {
perror("init_serialport: Unable to open port ");
return -1;
}
if (tcgetattr(fd, &toptions) < 0) {
perror("init_serialport: Couldn't get term attributes");
return -1;
}
speed_t brate = baud; // let you override switch below if needed
switch(baud) {
case 4800: brate=B4800; break;
case 9600: brate=B9600; break;
#ifdef B14400
case 14400: brate=B14400; break;
#endif
case 19200: brate=B19200; break;
#ifdef B28800
case 28800: brate=B28800; break;
#endif
case 38400: brate=B38400; break;
case 57600: brate=B57600; break;
case 115200: brate=B115200; break;
}
cfsetispeed(&toptions, brate);
cfsetospeed(&toptions, brate);
// 8N1
toptions.c_cflag &= ~PARENB;
toptions.c_cflag &= ~CSTOPB;
toptions.c_cflag &= ~CSIZE;
toptions.c_cflag |= CS8;
// no flow control
toptions.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;
toptions.c_cflag |= CREAD | CLOCAL; // turn on READ & ignore ctrl lines
toptions.c_iflag &= ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY); // turn off s/w flow ctrl
toptions.c_lflag &= ~(ICANON | ECHO | ECHOE | ISIG); // make raw
toptions.c_oflag &= ~OPOST; // make raw
// see: http://unixwiz.net/techtips/termios-vmin-vtime.html
toptions.c_cc[VMIN] = 0;
toptions.c_cc[VTIME] = 20;
if( tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &toptions) < 0) {
perror("init_serialport: Couldn't set term attributes");
return -1;
}
return fd;
}
This code could be modified to get data from the Web via an environment variable for example, data = getenv(“QUERY_STRING”);. See the Web page, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html for details.
5. Install the CGI application or the PHP script on the Web server.