{"id":307,"date":"2014-02-10T03:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?p=307"},"modified":"2014-02-10T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:10:29","slug":"radiation-monitoring-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Radiation Monitoring Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent the better part of a day updating my radiation monitoring computer. \u00a0Not wanting to use all the energy of a full desktop computer, I’ve decided to move the installation to a small netbook that’s been laying around. \u00a0About a year ago, I purchased a USB converter for the Aware Electronics RM-80 geiger counter and I finally decided to install it.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, it has taken way longer than I had hoped.<\/p>\n

First, installation of the software was not completely straight forward. \u00a0The software from Aware Electronics is somewhat complex in there are many different components and the documentation is a little haphazard – you definately need to “dive in” and read it all if you are going to do anything more than basic. \u00a0For me, I am very specific about the type of graphs that I wanted. \u00a0The scripting is a llittle complex, and when I had previously ventured into this area, I should have commented the .BAT files a little more. \u00a0One can never remember the fine points of these things several years later. \u00a0As there is a .BAT file on this site, I will be uploading an update that is well commented for those of you who might be interested in emulating it.<\/p>\n

Next was the other programs that needed to be updated. \u00a0First, the windows remote desktop \u00a0was not working. \u00a0About 2 hours was spent on that…until it came to my attention that XP Home edition doesn’t have that functionality. \u00a0A Google search did come up with a solution…and now the remote desktop works.<\/p>\n

Finally, I needed to transfer all the other “glue”-type programs and get them working. \u00a0Specifically, I needed to re-setup Watch4Folder and WinSCP to upload the pictures. \u00a0Again, a good reason to remember to comment liberally when writing script files.<\/p>\n

So now, basement radiation is being monitored on the low-power netbook, and is now being tracked by microSeiverts, whereas it previously was reported in microRoentgens. \u00a0The Seivert is a more common measure of radioactivity and thus I felt it best to update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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