Windows
Note: This instructions are for version 112. This is the latest version I have tested. There are some users out there running the newest version on windows. Feel free to send me feedback if you run newer versions on windows or if you believe you want to support the windows users in the project :D I am not longer interested to support Microsoft crappy spy software.
I remove the windows support from measureit since version 117. There are just some lines of code that was different from the linux code. [See commit if you are interested in] (https://github.com/lalelunet/measureit/commit/3aed0bbb08679ce84010edc96a23fdfc6baac1f0)
You had to install some software to get this thing running. The URLs to the pages are from the packages I use. These sites must not be the "original pages". They come up on my search in the internet. There are certainly more sites that share these packages...
PLEASE NOTE: I WILL NEVER EVER DO ANY SUPPORT FOR YOUR WINDOWS SYSTEM PROBLEMS! YOU CAN ASK FOR SUPPORT FROM THE POINT YOU INSTALL MEASUREIT.
First you need the driver from currentcost to connect to your device. http://currentcost.com/software-downloads.html
The server structure XAMPP you can get from apachefriends. Download the installer version. Available Apache and Mysql as a service.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
The grabber script is written in python. You had to install python and the necessary modules.
FROM NOW USE THE 32 BIT VERSIONS even if you are running a Windows with 64 bit support.
[http://www.python.org/getit/](Python 2.7.2 Windows Installer)
The database package for python to talk with your mysql server
http://www.codegood.com/archives/129
The serial package to talk with your currentcost device.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are on a 64bit system you had to use the version 2.4 from pyserial and you need the additional Python Win32 Extensions pywin. Otherwise it will not work. If you are not sure which windows version you are running take the 2.4 version from pyserial and install pywin. It works on both systems
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/pyserial/2.5/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/pyserial/2.4/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/pywin32-216.win32-py2.7.exe
Known issues and solutions when you are running into problems during the setup you will find on the wiki
From here I will answer questions if you have any problems you will not found in the FAQ Then create a new issue
Download the latest version from measureit
Create the directory C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit
Extract the downloaded measureit package and put in in the directory C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit
Install the database
Open a browser and type in the location bar ( not in the google search field .... ) "localhost".
Choose your language
You will find on the left side the point "phpMyAdmin"
Click on import on the top of the window. Choose the following file: C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit\install\createdb.sql
Click OK
Start grabbing the data Now your measureit installation should be complete and if you type "localhost/measureit" in your location bar you should see the start screen from measureit
At this point it is time to start the grabbing process. Start the "cmd.exe". You can type it in the search field in your start menu. Windows will find it. Copy and paste this line into the cmd window. Now the data should be grabbed. Leave the cmd window open.
If you are more familiar with windows systems than me feel free to share you information about creating a system service that will start automatically with windows
C:\Python27\python.exe C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit\python\data-input.py
Delete the install folder and the scripts folder.
C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit\install
C:\xampp\htdocs\measureit\scripts
AND NOW GO TO THE FAQ PAGE AND READ THE SECURITY PART. THIS IS IMPORTANT! :)