Danuta Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Hello everyone! I’m new to the forum and recently set up Armbian on my Orange Pi using the latest July 2025 image. I’m working on a user-space application to monitor fuel consumption for IoT projects involving vehicle fleets, like optimizing diesel trucks. I’m thinking of something that could run via armbian-config or as a Python script, pulling data from fuel sensors. So far, my idea is to log consumption data and calculate efficiency based on user input. I’ve tried Grafana, but it lacks a dedicated fuel calculator—kalkulatorpaliwa.com.pl could serve as a starting point for a simple interface. I’m unsure how to approach this on Armbian—should I use Python with Matplotlib, or go for a lighter option like Bash with awk? I’ll share a basic startup script if someone helps me get started! What tools do you recommend for building such apps on Armbian? Has anyone worked on a similar fuel monitoring project with SBCs? What challenges might I face with sensor integration? Looking forward to your suggestions—I plan to start testing this week! 0 Quote
robertoj Posted July 24 Posted July 24 Sensor integration: buy a OBD2 to USB adapter and study the OBD2 codes to read the fuel liters/hour, km and km/h. It is very possible there is a python OBD2 library. The SBC should be running continuously in the vehicle, since the car electronic control unit does not have the memory to store the information for you. Python+tkinter/pyqt6+matplotlib is very effective for this kind of apps. 0 Quote
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