{"id":1097,"date":"2017-09-27T20:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabienm.eu\/wordpress\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-11-12T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T13:53:39","slug":"analog-input-with-usb-soundcard-on-linux-part2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fabienm.eu\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/27\/analog-input-with-usb-soundcard-on-linux-part2\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog input with usb soundcard on Linux [Part2]"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<< part1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Ok, we seen on a first article<\/a> how to record signal from the input of an usb sound card. But our objective is not to just \u00abear the sound of current\u00bb but our objective is to make a measurement.<\/p>\n

Displaying waves with python<\/strong><\/p>\n

For quick and dirty displaying we can use the opensource sound software audacity<\/a> . But for more computation, and for the end application I used python with the following script found on stackoverflow:<\/p>\n

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport numpy as np\r\nimport wave\r\nimport sys\r\n\r\nspf = wave.open('foobar.wav','r')\r\n\r\n#Extract Raw Audio from Wav File\r\nsignal = spf.readframes(-1)\r\nsignal = np.fromstring(signal, 'Int16')\r\n\r\nplt.figure(1)\r\nplt.title('Signal Wave...')\r\nplt.plot(signal)\r\nplt.show()\r\n<\/pre>\n
Saturation<\/strong><\/p>\n
There is a problem with sound card Line in<\/a> : its voltage level limit is low<\/a> ~400mVpp depend to volume input control. Then recorded signal is dramatically saturated by the sound card. As we can see on the following measurement curves<\/p>\n
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toaster current curve : saturated<\/p><\/div>\n
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Kettle and toaster current curve : saturated<\/p><\/div>\n
To solve this problem, I simply soldered resistor divider to divide by ~10 the input signal level. Then I get good signal entry.<\/p>\n
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Voltage dividor<\/p><\/div>\n
To unsure that signal level will not saturate, don’t forget to set input sound level at maximum with alsamixer :<\/p>\n
$ alsamixer<\/pre>\n
We can then obtain a not saturated signal :<\/p>\n
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Toaster plus kettle current curve not saturated<\/p><\/div>\n
Plugging it on raspberrypi and electric distribution board.<\/strong><\/p>\n
In my house, the electric distribution board and internet box are under the same cupboard then it’s easy to connect current probe + raspberrypi + usb sound card and it’s power (tricks: to power the raspberrypi you can use the usb plug from your box instead of power wall adapt).<\/p>\n
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Wire plug in my electric cupboard<\/p><\/div>\n
Visualize the sound of your house electric consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n
I can now make measurement from the raspberrypi then download wave on computer to see the my house electric consumption.<\/p>\n
ssh pi@192.168.0.111\r\narecord -d 10 -f cd -D plughw:1 -t wav foobar.wav\r\n<\/pre>\n
This above command give is not stopping after ten seconds like on my laptop and give me multiple files of 44Bytes. I don’t know why ?
\nOnce it recorded we can download it with scp on laptop :<\/p>\n
$ scp pi@192.168.0.111:~\/foobar-* .\r\n<\/pre>\n
Then display it with my little python script :<\/p>\n
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Electric consumption before and after power on the inductive hot plate for boiling water.<\/p><\/div>\n
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In a futur article we will see how to calculate the RMS current with a deamon and save it in raspberrypi to see the consumption history.<\/p>\n
[ Part3 >>]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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