Plasmatronics PL Regulator Controller
The Device::Regulator::Plasmatronic module provides an interface library to open source Plasmatronics regulator controller. Written in Perl by Scott Penrose.
AUTHOR: Scott Penrose
CURRENT VERSION: 0.03
DOWNLOAD: Plasmatronics PL Regulator Controller
MORE INFO: Plasmatronic CPAN page
The package comes with several utilities in addition to the basic library:
- plbackup / plrestore: Enables backup of all the data currently in the regulator. This is very handy if you want to work on the regulator, which involves disconnecting the power and losing all data for the current day.
- plhistory: Display the history.
- plload: A simple example of some load variables displayed. A good place to look before writing your own code.
- pllogger: Writes all daily entries to a log file, good for long term logging. Can be adapted to log any data in the system at any interval.
- plloopback: Test the loopback to make sure the unit and code is working. Handy to put in a test script, could for example trigger an alarm if the systems goes down.
- plread / plwrite: Read and write to any variable in the system. A raw access tool.
- pltest: Another test code - not really necessary but can be used to generally test changes.
- pltime: Read and write the time on the system. Enables a cronjob to be setup to set the time correctly from your server on regular basis, or call it after a plrestore.