Uploads data to Firebase for use with the greenhouse-monitor app.
On the Pi running Bullseye
sudo apt install sense-hat git
pip install firebase_admin numpy
Enable billing for google cloud, you won't likely be charged for anything, this is to make Time to Live setup on the firestore database. See this resource.
Install gcloud, terraform.
Run
gcloud auth application-default login
To authenticate with google cloud using your account.
Then run the following terraform commands to spin up the database and android app.
terraform init -upgrade
terraform apply
Extract the certificate from the state
terraform output -raw service-certificate > cert.json
Extract the json for android studio from the state and follow this guide. Or just add it to the root module folder your app, and use the assistant in Android Studio.
terraform output -raw google-services > google-services.json
Clone this repo to the user pi's home directory as greenhouse-server.
Take the cert.json and move it to the same directory.
Move greenhouse-server.service to /etc/systemd/system/
Finally start the data collection server
systemctl enable --now greenhouse-server.service
You only really need to backup terraform.tfstate locally. This is so you can
tear down the project. Keep this file safe.
To clean up
terraform destroy