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Full Documentation for the Hourly Predictor is a work in progress, There are some notes, a youtube video and CentOS Image for VMWare Player. Other Images and packages are a work in progress.
It has been tested on a Pi but it slow at downloading the GFS data (Over an hour)
Notes for installing from Source on CentOS 6
This has been documented for CentOS 6 at http://hab.yapd.net/setup.html.
Setting Up Your Own Hourly Predictor
This page will be a guide to help users set up their own hourly predictor.
This uses a VMWare Player - you can download the player Here
VMWare player image of a standard setup on CentOS linked here.
Some useful information to customise the image and how to use the hourly
Default Account credentials - change to suit
User: chris
Pass: habhub1
Root Credentials
User: root
Pass: habhub1
to Logout a currently logged in user
pkill -KILL -u raj
to Change username
usermod -l login-name old-name
Locations of the cron jobs for manually running them
“/opt/cusf-landing-prediction/scripts/fetch-run-cronjob.sh”
fetch-run - lauches both of these files
“/opt/cusf-landing-prediction/scripts/hourly-predictions-cronjob.sh”
hourly-predictions - performs the calculations
“/opt/cusf-landing-prediction/scripts/grabdata-cronjob.sh”
grabdata - downloads the data from NOAA servers
“/opt/cusf-landing-prediction/web/hourly-predictions/scenario-template.json”
The options for launch, lat/lon, alt, ascent, descent etc
Scheduler for the cronjobs is in /etc/cron.d/hab
echo “0 */3 * * * root cd /opt/cusf-landing-prediction && ./scripts/fetch-run-cronjob.sh”
#the 0 */3 * * * part refers to the cron fetching the data at 00 mins past the hour every 3 hours, change to suit your needs
Apache Info Located in: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf DocumentRoot “/opt/cusf-landing-prediction/web/hourly-predictions”
DNS Namerserver /etc/resolv.conf
I had problems with the router borking things so resolv.conf was set to 8.8.8.8
This resets on each boot so you may need to find a more robust fix