New Radioactive@Home detectors might be coming...

[davidbam]

Thank you - that was all pretty painless

[scole of TSBT]

You need to add your sensor to the map and set the correct location. You don't need to pin point it on your house but at least somewhat close. You'll get twice the credit after that too.

[davidbam]

Thanks. Done. I'll be interested to see what it reports. Local stone is granite / gneiss which, I believe, has fairly high background counts

[scole of TSBT]

One down, one to go...

[Bryan]

If you move your detector to a different BOINC instance you have to redo the MAP thingy or your credits drop in half. I moved mine and didn't check for a month and then I found it.

[Alez]

One down, one to go...

I'm sure that if it works with the ECU of the kart we can get some very interesting results .....

[scole of TSBT]

All you need is a raspberry pi. That's what mine is connected to.

[Alez]

All you need is a raspberry pi. That's what mine is connected to.

Because I'm so busy and / or lazy, mine is still out in the badlands of north eastern Scotland Prepping a second kart to race before the end of this season so the kid gets some practice in running in the top class for next year as well as his current class. The new kart is a bloody scary beast.

[davidbam]

oh - I hear a new chirp so that is promising (and annoying - can it be switched off?)

You can disable that in the project preferences.

Also, under the computer details, you need to add your sensor to the map

I moved my sensor to a new machine. It chirps (despite the setting in project preferences) and the map section is absent (it just says 0). Any clues please as to what I need to do?

[scole of TSBT]

It might need to complete and upload a WU first. Set your runtime to .5 hours, about the current one and let the .5 hr finish

[davidbam]

Will try, thanks

[scole of TSBT]

Maybe I've never posted this info, needed for the sensor to work under linux...

By default the user 'boinc' is not allowed to access the USB devices. To do so we need to change the udev rules (or better add one)

As root (sudo....) create a file in the directory /etc/udev/rules.d/ the filename is 50-group.rules, with the following content...

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# /etc/udev/rules.d/50-group.rules
SUBSYSTEM!="usb", GOTO="skip_rule"
ACTION=="add", GROUP="plugdev"
LABEL="skip_rule"

This will add a rule that whenever a usb device is added the group for the device-file is set to 'plugdev'. This group already exists on the RPi and the user 'pi' is already a member of that group.

To activate the rule the 'udev' service needs to be restarted...

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sudo service udev restart

Now unplug the usb devices, wait a little bit and replug them in.

Now we need to add the user 'boinc' to the group 'plugdev'...

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sudo usermod -a -G plugdev boinc