This week has been primarily focused on getting everything in order for the demo. I purchased the domain occupancymonkey.com. I started a new Ec2 as Angela was having difficulty and cloned our project there. The django development server is not an acceptable way to run our program as it doesn’t handle high loads /service restarts so I pursued using apache2 to run our program via a wsgi mod. I successfully completed this and then using ip forwarding I tied this to our domain at occupancymonkey.com. From here I utilized ssl to allow for https inbound and outbound traffic. This serves two purposes one it will allow aws iot to send messages safely via https which will greatly simplify data matriculation. Secondly it will help keep data more secure following the ethics discussion realizations are team had.
We hit a slight schedule snag in that our esp8266s are no longer behaving with cmu-device. Whereas in the past we were able to connect to EC2 cmu-device is now refusing us the ability to use pub sub client. Our mitigation strategy that I’m working on before the demo is converting a raspberry pi to a router/wifi access point