These scripts used to collect data from sensors all over german Hackerspace RaumZeitLabor and send it to the online service Pachube.

The git repository consists of two files:

script/electricity-pachube

A simple script to run the electricity data pusher, providing --version.

lib/RaumZeitLabor/ElectricityPachube.pm

The electricity data pusher source code.

To run the bot on your local machine, use ./script/electricity-pachube.

The preferred way to deploy code on the Blackbox (where this bot traditionally runs on) is by installing a Debian package. This has many advantages:

1. When we need to re-install for some reason, the package has the correct dependencies, so installation is easy.

2. If Debian ships a new version of perl, the script will survive that easily.

3. A simple dpkg -l | grep -i raumzeit is enough to find all RaumZeitLabor-related packages and their version. The precise location of initscripts, configuration and source code can be displayed by dpkg -L electricity-pachube.

To create a Debian package, ensure you have dpkg-dev installed, then run:

dpkg-buildpackage

Now you have a package called electricity-pachube_1.0-1_all.deb which you can deploy on the Blackbox.

If you introduce new dependencies, bump the version or change the description, you have to update the Debian packaging. First, install the packaging tools we are going to use:

apt-get install dh-make-perl

Then, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
mv debian/electricity-pachube.{init,postinst} .
rm -rf debian
dh-make-perl -p electricity-pachube --source-format 1
mv electricity-pachube.{init,postinst} debian/

By the way, the originals for electricity-pachube.{init,postinst} are /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/init.d.ex and /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/postinst.ex.

For more information about Debian packaging, see:

• http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete