Hiveeyes One

Introduction

Richard Pobering is writing the Hiveeyes blog while working on our open source / open hardware beehive monitoring system. He engineered the RFM69-based sensor node HEnode (HEnode Blog), as well as the radio message protocol in form of the BERadio specification, an efficient transport protocol for radio link communication.

Karsten Harazim and Robert Gummi welded the double-H formed Scale frame “Beutenkarl”.

Results

Hiveeyes One was installed in the field at the Hiveeyes labs beehive in Berlin Wedding in early Spring 2016.

HEnode

See also

Hiveeyes One starts to transmit data from the beehive on February 2, 2016.

HEnode version 0.2.2 in the field

HEnode Hiveeyes One in a case - top

HEnode version 0.2.2 in the field

HEnode Hiveeyes One in a case - bottom

HEnode version 0.2.2 in the field

HEnode Hiveeyes One in the hive

Scale frame “Beutenkarl”

See also

On April 14, 2016, the The “Beutenkarl” scale was rigged up at Labhive One.

Scale frame is mounted. Rear view.

Scale frame is mounted. Rear view.

Scale frame is mounted. Front view.

Scale frame is mounted. Front view.

Live data

Last 7 days.

Presentations

Elektrischer Reporter 149: Vernetzte Bienen, Fahrradlobbyisten und Spielausgrabungen
In »Elektrischer Reporter 149: Vernetzte Bienen, Fahrradlobbyisten und Spielausgrabungen«, Richard Pobering talks about the Hiveeyes project. Enjoy!

Do-it-yourself

Node

Software

Gateway

Hardware

  • RaspberryPi, running the BERadio serial-to-mqtt forwarder
  • JeeLink, a fully assembled and ready-to-use USB-type “stick” which plugs directly into a PC, Mac or USB hub. It contains Atmel’s ATmega328p AVR microprocessor, HopeRF’s RFM69CW wireless radio module and a branded FT232R USB interface chip.

Software

  • Linux, the famous free operating system for personal computers having the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems.
  • Eclipse Mosquitto, an open-source MQTT v3.1/v3.1.1 Broker.
  • Python, a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
  • BERadio serial-to-mqtt forwarder implementing a RFM69 to MQTT gateway.
  • gateway-rfm69-beradio.ino is the radio receiver part of the gateway running on the ATmega328p on JeeLink.

Backend

  • Linux, the famous free operating system for personal computers having the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems.
  • Eclipse Mosquitto, an open-source MQTT v3.1/v3.1.1 Broker.
  • InfluxDB, an open-source distributed time series database.
  • Grafana, the leading graph and dashboard builder for visualizing time series metrics.
  • Python, a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
  • Kotori, a multi-channel, multi-protocol data acquisition and graphing toolkit.

Note

While the whole backend software stack can be installed on your own machine, we encourage using our collaborative and open Hiveeyes Backend platform.

Parts-list

Todo

Ask Richard.