Worker Configuration (Raspberry Pi)

MudPi has multiple operations it can perform from toggling relays, taking sensor readings, or listening for input. These operations are all controlled through workers that MudPi runs on multiple threads for better performance. You can read more details on the concepts of workers under the Core Concepts - Workers documentation page.

To add a worker to MudPi put a worker configuration object in the workers array. The minimum required options in a worker configuration is the type. You should add either sensors, controls, i2c or display based on your worker type.

{
    "workers":[{
        "type":"sensor",
        "sleep_duration":30,
        "topic":"sensors",
        "sensors": [
            {...}
        ]
    }]
}

If you wish to split components to run on multiple workers, simply define another worker configuration that contains the other configurations you want it to handle. This way you could adjust components you want polled at different intervals or that emit data on different topics. You can store everything on one worker or multiple workers, the choice is up to you.

{
    "workers":[
        {
            "type":"sensor",
            "sleep_duration":30,
            "topic":"sensors",
            "sensors": [
                {...}
            ]
        },
        {
            "type":"sensor",
            "sleep_duration":10,
            "topic":"sensors",
            "sensors": [
                {...}
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Settings

Type Dependant Settings

Since there are several worker types they each have a set of options based on the type. Below are the configuration options each sensor type has specific to it.