picockpit.com new version v.0.11.0 is live!

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-17

This new version of picockpit.com supports live streaming of MQTT measurement data from your Pi to your webinterface (desktop or mobile). By clicking on the info icon, you can see the public and private IPs, the serial number and the Pi model: The online state of the Pi is displayed with the online badge. Currently…

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PiCockpit preview: Sensors

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-14

Preview This is in the upcoming version of PiCockpit: All these values are updated live (currently each second) using MQTT messages to PiCockpit. The value for Root partition total available is static, as it is the total size of the root partition. Some values are rendered in a prettier (but less precise) view in the…

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PiCockpit showing CPU usage & temperature

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-12

The CPU information is updated live in your webinterface. No matter where your Pi will be in the world, if it has an Internet connection and can talk to the PiCockpit MQTT Broker, you will be able to monitor it. CPU Loaded with two hogs: The 51 % refers to overall system load – that…

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PiCockpit: online / offline states, and MQTT

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-08

In the upcoming PiCockpit release, we will have an online status tracking for Pi’s connected via picockpit-client. The online function is realized by MQTT’s Last Will & Testament feature. You can test it by unplugging your Pi from the network. I unplugged the Pi at: 17:59:10 At about 18:00:05 it was shown as offline: Why…

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VerneMQ how to disconnect clients forceably per command line

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-08

There is a command vmq-admin session show which will show you the currently connected clients: Unfortunately, this output is truncated for a total width of 80 characters (no matter how many would fit) and there is currently no indication that it is. See this VerneMQ Github issue: https://github.com/vernemq/vernemq/issues/1200 To disconnect clients you need the client_id…

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Paho failure to subscribe

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-08

Problem AMQJS0005E Internal error. Error Message: Cannot read property ‘show’ of undefined This error is shown sporadically, especially when you Shift-Reload the whole page. Solution I have a Vue.js Plugin to show “toast” messages (Vue.toasted). I currently use it for debugging purposes. Everything worked fine initially, as my code was executed after Vue was initialized…

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First message from picockpit client rendered!

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-07

Today, 7.8.2019, at around 18:16 the code is in place for the first message to have been rendered:   Thus the Pi “Alexander” is shown as online. Thanks to the magic of vue.js, MQTT, VerneMQ, AdminLTE, Crystal Lang, Python, Paho, AXIOS and much much more! This is the effort of around 320 hours of work…

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