22 August

22 August

Grown-ups like numbers. They countent and recount them. In general, it ends up in miles of Excel spreadsheets, or on Powerpoint presentations with soporific effects.

So I too have metrics to follow the progress of the project. On my dashboard, we count in “ box pile height "

before: Now :

Conclusion: I practically sent all the Pioupious. If I do well, I should finish next week.

Conquering the West

So far, there was no Pioupious West of the Greenwich Meridian. On the map, at least.

It's solved! The Pioupiou n°293 located itself this morning, right in the place where we make good Cognac and also paramotoring. He therefore becomes the first Pioupiou at negative longitude 🙂

The other Pioupious "from the West" will quickly join him.

La dark side of the Pioupiou

Once I'm done with the boxes, I'll be able to put myself 100% on the new site.

I have already finished the "backend". That is to say, the hidden part where all the management and archiving of data is done. For the more adventurous, the entrance is done here: http://developers.pioupiou.fr

So here's, live, what happens in the world of the Pioupious:

(the screen may remain black for a few seconds − until the first transmissions arrive)

(Ah ah ah. Me, it made me laugh coding that.) 

" what is that thing ? − "I don't understand anything about it" − "it's all in English"

Dog
of panic. We are talking here about the matrix. most of you
never need to touch it. But thanks to this,
other programmers will be able to make us beautiful applications for
visualize the data of our Poupious.

It has already started! For example, Pedro integrated the Pioupious in his application Mobitags (for Android):

We should soon have lots of other apps!

The oueb site

The first thing I have done is a nice ready-to-copy-and-paste module. That way, you can put your Pioupiou on your club's page, without having to touch the matrix.

Next, I will make a more complete interface. It will look something like this:

We will have the photo, the description, the button to modify the description, the archives… In short. Everything what it takes.

But as I said above, first I have to finish with the boxes.

So see you next week 🙂

61 thoughts on “ 22 August »

  1. the 3rd beacon installed in Corsica 3 days ago does not appear!!
    Alain it seems to me that there was the possibility of doing it manually on your page but this page no longer exists!

    1. that's it I didn't have the right address I registered the new Beacon (1032 Furiani) which still does not appear on Nicolas' map

  2. Good news for my beacon in the west that I wanted to install at the Atlantic Paramotor Club. But another member installed his before me.
    There will be 2 in Vendée!!

  3. The site is accessible again. Apparently many Pioupiou have been "offline" since 8:00 this morning, which may be when the website went down. Besides, it's interesting: is it the same server/VPS that collects the data from Sigfox and provides it via the API and the web? Is there a redundancy somewhere. I hope Nicolas can tell us more when all the Pioupious have been shipped.

    1. The server pioupiou.fr crashed. For now, it's still running on the old system. He does not use the new backend, which is more stable for him.

      The API, which is independently hosted, remained functional. This is why we had the measurements on Mobibalises but not on pioupiou.fr

    2. That's because it was already on. To refresh the position, it would have had to be turned off, then turned on again once installed in the new location.

      I watched. The position will update automatically tomorrow morning around 9am.

  4. it's good the 3rd Corsica beacon is pointed on the Map some Pioupiou suffer their first gust of wind and they resist

  5. Hello,
    An interesting suggestion (in my opinion) for the pioupious interface.
    The possibility, for the admin, to "rotate" the wind rose of the last 2 hours of measurements, in order to position the direction of takeoff towards the top of the screen. Thus, I can quickly know if the wind is "across right, left or downright ass".
    I hope I am clear.
    In any case, once again thank you and congratulations for all that.
    Jerome

  6. Hello, I would like to insert the information directly into my WordPress site from the developer info.
    Can someone refer me to a tutorial? a widget to install? THANKS
    Yann

    1. I modified the files widget_pioupiou.php and Read-me.txt to be able to integrate several pioupious!
      see the readme.txt file

  7. Hi Nicolas,

    Quick question about wind direction. Is the value returned by pioupiou weather normalized?
    That is to say, it indicates where the wind is coming from? Or does it indicate the direction of the wind (where the wind is going, in a more aerodynamic context)?
    Thanks and bravo once again.

    1. Thank you for this question which I have already posed privately to NB.
      Indeed, on the dial of a weather vane, the needle always indicates the azimuth of the wind, ie where the wind comes from.
      In the case of Pioupious the arrow indicates the direction of movement of the wind, its azimuth being indicated in text mode.
      This is what I will specify in the description of tag #141 as soon as possible.
      I am going to install a second beacon intended for recreational sailors in the Bay of Aigues Mortes and I am sure to have the same question on the subject.
      In any case congratulations to NB for the result, even if since the flight of the pioupious there is no more wind...

  8. Pioupiou N° 89 and 91 received today!
    As soon as they are unpacked, as soon as they are installed for testing on the roof of the house before returning to the final nest.
    It's chirping a lot in the garden, thank you Nicolas, very nice job!

  9. the pioupiou 358 has obviously been vaccinated against the ugly bug of longitudes, installed on the roof of the fleetmanville club, it pioupiouts quietly while waiting for a higher mast. installation started without pb

    thank you very much, A+

  10. A very big congratulations Nicolas, for your project it's great to get to the end after all these difficulties, it reminds me of my own experience, not all that easy, you have to constantly find solutions, for me an entrepreneur is a specialist plan B

    you are a champion the result is superb

    Damien
    AlpineFoil

  11. the piou piou 396 from the Méréville paramotor field has been running for a week, without problems, it's the best
    we are now looking forward to the possibility of making it less anonymous on the map;)
    anyway congratulations nicolas, great job

  12. Pioupiou 388 online for 1 hour. Hassle-free setup and activation. Thanks Nicholas. Number 387 will be installed at altitude as soon as I have found the drop point and obtained the installation authorization 😉

  13. Remove me from a doubt: will we have the barometric pressure available with the wind information?
    currently not on the charts…it's important for gliding….
    JLM

    1. Ouuups, sorry, I had not read the desc. from the API and the JSON return,
      as much for me !
      Nicolas, when you have some time, a Pioupiou forum would be welcome, it will avoid polluting the blog…
      Pioupiou 297 received but very far from its final nest, so temporary installation to be planned near Frontenas (69).
      JLM

  14. concerning the pressure I suppose that the value given is the value at the altitude at which the anemo is located, in suggestion to have in addition the reduced pressure at sea level

  15. many pioupiou are not installed, see there are duplicates, it might not be silly to resell them to better cover the odds.

  16. How do I get the data for a pilou pilou that does not appear on the map but has already been installed? Normandeliere sailing school 85470 Bretignolles sur mer? THANKS

  17. this morning I connect to meteo Parapanete and a page opens where a message appears "METEOPARAPENTE IT'S OVER"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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