Phase III Laptop Control of the TrainThing - The Problem

[Ag2000]

21 Aug '22

• Host log files have been back all week. A milestone.
• Learned a lot about how the Raspberry Pi 4 protects itself from overheating. More work and documentation needed.
• New Mineral Spirits and NO OX ID "A Special" track cleaning procedure seems to work well.

15 - 21 Aug '22

[Ag2000]

28 Aug '22

• Time understanding Sphinx and the autodoc extension to document the Raspberry Pi software.
• Life.

22 - 28 Aug '22

[Ag2000]

4 Sep '22

• No answer on the Sphinx/autodoc question.
• Replaced the TrainThing laptop(4).

29 Aug - 4 Sep '22

[Ag2000]

11 Sep '22

• Updated and tested software on new laptop part of TrainThing. AND IT WORKS!
• Updated the sphinx output again.

5 - 11 Sep '22

[Ag2000]

18 Sep '22

• Fiddling with HelpNDoc and Sphinx presentation.
• Access and Error logs are back. We will see.

12 - 18 Sep '22

[Ag2000]

25 Sep '22

• Tried two different python graphic packages to build a full screen display of the TrainThing status.
• Some more host log files are missing - again.

19 - 25 Sep '22

[Ag2000]

2 Oct '22

• Work on the new schematic of the layout using the Vpython graphic library. Sweet.
• Updated some of the documentation.

26 Sep - 2 Oct '22

[Ag2000]

9 Oct '22

• Debugging the laptop software.
• Added documentation and a block diagram of the laptop software.

3 - 9 Oct '22

[Ag2000]

16 Oct '22

• Troubleshooting the laptop software. Cleaning up things and standardizing names.
• Ya, I broke it big time.

1 - 16 Oct '22

[Ag2000]

31 Oct '22

• Updated several software applications, extensions.
• Two weeks of life.

17 - 31 Oct '22