Dear Human Programmer:
The CLI-Example program for the Sensor Tile Box pro has a number of interesting features.
1. You can use g++ or one can languish in some sort of programming hell trying to get Intel C++ to work.
2. With the make file one can finally put just the right stuff in the main directory and get all the other stuff into an other directory where it can be ignored.
3. One can add the make file to the run batch file and at least pretend we are not in 1988 and using VEDIT with its compiler mode. Put in a three second delay so you can spot the errors.
4. You can then just use MSVS to edit the main.cpp so at least it looks pretty. Then there are only two buttons to press.
5. On Windows I can only get the make to compile in 32 bit.
6. When the program runs, one needs to know where the data is going and to the program main directory is not a long term viable solution. It also helps if the program prints out where you store the data as one forgets sometimes, I was at the dentist this morning and the human asked me three times did I want mint flavour, one wonders at dementia. But I remembered the three times.
7. If you have a suspect bridge then the normal time to tell people it is suspect is about 8 seconds. That means, you collect the data for 8 seconds, then run up a thread and do an FFT and checks in the next 8 seconds, and then telegraph the client something is wrong. Clients like it when you get it right, they become annoyed otherwise.
8. The MKI210 V2 will not restart even with a cold restart on the computer, one has to use a USBGEAR Hub to turn them on and off. I know this is a fact as I have a couple in Washington and I am fixing them for the hub now.
9. Using EXIT as a variable in a C++ program is a challenge, it is simple to make it a name that means something, like I_am_lost_find_me, one can read about the dog in NZ.
10 Leaving off STD:: is not recommended practice, so I read a few minutes ago.
11. It is possible to make CLI_example loop nicely and save multiple data files with about 10 seconds of data each and also turn off all the clutter that comes in the beginning.
12 The CHM file has a nice index, so does the OED.
13. It is possible to add a subroutine
int sendError(std::string message) {
logMessage(LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, message);
std::cout << "Press any key to exit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n";
getchar();
return -1;
}
and remove about 100 lines of the same three lines that make the program interesting to read.
14. The interesting start to each error message hsdatalog etc.... is interesting.
15. Automode is sketchy. I know this, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
16. Anyway, back to Byte program to analyze this new data set.
17. I would have liked to have used using the following, but it threw errors that were beyond my skill set.
using nlohmann::json
18. If you use 13 then you only need, 25 times 4 is 100 fewer lines and it is easier to read.
int ret = sendError("Error occurred while retrieving device configuration");
I19. It was suggested I should ask the formal help email people, they sent me to this forum which "has the real experts" I am paraphrasing a titch but not a tad.
20. Clip6 now is at a stage of some use.
21. There are six million bridges in the world, a small subset, are monitored by ST.COM devices, not a lot. Most bridges had a design life of 60 to 100 years and many were built before 1970. The ST.COM accelerometer very nicely (my 2nd Grade teacher said not to use very, but here I will), determines the rate of decay. Most bridges are inspected visually, by humans, I am a good human structural engineer, as I once said to Sister Elizabeth of the Dominican Order when asked if it was safe, my reply was probably but let us get in the survey team. We demolished it the next day. The ST.COM tells me exactly how fast it is degrading.
22. 21 is essentially caring about people in old structures, I care, and so I ask these *** questions, because the Sensor Tile Box Pro is really good, ok aside from using G++, C++ and locked dll's. I realize one works with what one has got, but sometimes when the building is collapsing and the Dominican Sisters are on their knees praying, which happened, one hopes that the equipment is good. I had to apologize to Sister Mary for dropping 5 tonnes of concrete on her rose garden. She did not mind, very nice Nun. Sister Elizabeth said they stopped praying once, it cleared the building, it hit the rose garden next to the building.
23. The code for the hsdata dll would be nice.
I hope I have not bored anyone.
John
