Environment Sensor

A project that demonstrates how to get environment information from a computing device.

This project has two components, a Dispatcher which gathers environment information and a MockServer to which the Dispatcher sends environment information for subsequent processing.

Be advised that this code needs to run directly on a host machine in order to access temperature data.

(1) Install the TypeScript runtime libraries

sudo npm install -g typescript && npm install -g ts-node

(2) Clone the source code

git clone https://github.com/reselbob/environmentsensor.git

(3) Go to the working directory

cd environmentsensor

(4) Install the dependencies

npm install

(5) Start the mock server

ts-node tests/mockServer.ts

(6) Start the `dispatch_runner` that reports environment data to the mock server

Run the following command in a separate terminal window.

cd environmentsensor

ts-node src/dispatch_runner.ts

Setting the `dispatch_runner` to report cpu temperature

The dispatch_runner can report cpu temperature when running on non-virtual, physical hardware. To configure the dispatch_runner to report temperature, do the following in the root of the source code working directory:

Step 1: In a terminal window run the following command to open a file named .env in the nano text editor:

nano .env

Step 2: Add copy and past the following line into the file .env

DEVICE_INFO_TYPE=TEMPERATURE

Step 3: Strike the ctrl+o keys to save the file's content.

Step 4: Strike the ctrl+x keys to exit nano.

Step 5: Start the dispatch_runner to start emitting information about the cpu temperature on the host computer: