This week has been very productive and the stress of the rewrite has lessened. We have most of the front end implemented, and the UI already looks pretty good when it comes to the water level history graph and the set water level aspects. The biggest roadblock however is yet to come with the valve communication as we don’t really have a full understanding of that aspect yet. Reason being, is the documentation on the legacy code doesn’t really point us in the right direction and we don’t have a good contact who knows how the system works. I am still confident the team will be able to push forward and get that working. We have the legacy code and will be able to get an idea about how the communication works, and since we got most of the other aspects done, we will have full team focus on the matter. The sites front end already looks more modern and sleek than the previous version, and while the backend is a question, we will just have to figure out how it will work. I feel a lot better about the project as a whole, and am really excited to get the full feature set working. After we get the communication and the proof of concept sort of working, we will be able to add a lot of cool ease of use features and have more free roam when it comes to what to add to the project to make it a better experience. Something that I have pushed for is SMS texting for updates about the wave lab. I think that will be a nice feature as the filling takes 8-12 hours in some cases which means the researchers won’t be monitoring it as intently.
