After a brief meeting last week, since we didn't have as much to show, we were sent on our way to continue work on our project.
Our current checklist of to do items stands as:
TO DO
- Visualizer multi-select of sources
- Small layout changes
- Monitor base functionality
Our current progress stands with all of the above items completed. A successful week as I would say.
This week I focused mostly on helping the Monitor team. The base page and drop down was up, so what we needed to complete from last week was to link the page to the Wattdepot servers and display the data. Ed was able to link up to Wattdepot and grab all the data. For man job I was assigned to format the returned data for display. It was initially thought of as a simple job, but the task was slightly more complicated with both of the time values displayed being in a different format. I had to break each one down and rebuild them into something usable for display.
There were two problems that we ran into. The first being a thread issue in which caused what seemed to be a double update whenever we hit the interval. This issue took a somewhat large chunk of time from both Ed and I, and Ed was finally able to resolve it through a time comparison. The second issue which is similar to the first issue is a delay in update, this issue is going to be mark as such because at the current moment we are unsure how to approach it. The issue is caused by a delay from the Wattdepot server when we request data from large sources. Most of the time we have a small 1 second delay for the initial connection and then it runs fine, but in the case with a large source, in our case SIM_OAHU_GRID, the delay time is as much as 10 seconds added to our interval sleep time, so at minimum it was updating everything 15 seconds even when set to 5 second intervals. We've talked to Robert about this issue and he has recommended a fix, but it requires us to update in advance for compensate for each source's delay.
On the visualizer side, we are finally complete with all functionality working. Hopefully this will be or somewhat final release version. There might be small layout issues that need fixing but all functionality is currently working.
On current plans for this coming week is up in the air. Since we might be finishing up with the Visualizer project, we will either be working on enhancements for the monitor or continuing on with the browser project we had put on hold for the monitor. It will play out depending on our weekly meeting.
Here's hoping a finalized visualizer!
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