Library for my home monitoring classes and serial communication protocol. It monitors temperature and movement on the mbed application board.

Dependents:   FinalProject

Revision:
2:84432add9142
Parent:
0:3f846fc933a2
diff -r 2f5a62eb52ad -r 84432add9142 Temperature/Temperature.h
--- a/Temperature/Temperature.h	Tue Sep 03 08:54:55 2013 +0000
+++ b/Temperature/Temperature.h	Tue Sep 03 20:24:12 2013 +0000
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include <string>
 
+/** Temperature class stores historical temperature data and tresholds for temperature alerts
+* 
+*/
 class Temperature {
     private: 
 	  double max_temp_limit, min_temp_limit, period_limit, max_samples_limit;
@@ -16,16 +19,78 @@
       std::vector<std::string> temp_samples;
 
     public:
+    /**
+    * Creates a new temperature object.  All parameters
+    * hard coded at first and methods used to set appropriately
+    * based on user's desires.
+    */
 	  Temperature();
+	  /**
+	  * Returns minimum temperature threshold
+	  *
+	  * @param return - mininum temperature threshold
+	  */
       double get_min();
+      /**
+      * Returns maximum temperature threshold
+      *
+      * @param return - maximum temperature threshold
+      */
       double get_max();
+      /**
+      * Returns temperature sampling period in seconds
+      *
+      * @param return - temperature sampling period in seconds
+      */
       double get_period();
-      bool set_min(double);
-      bool set_max(double);
-      bool set_period(double);
+      /**
+      * Sets the minimum temperature threshold for alerts.
+      *
+      * @param min - new minimum temperature threshold for alerts
+      * @param return - indicates success or failure
+      */
+      bool set_min(double min);
+      /**
+      * Sets the maximum temperature threshold for alerts.
+      *
+      * @param max - new maximum temperature threshold for alerts
+      * @param return - indicates success or failure
+      */
+      bool set_max(double max);
+      /**
+      * Sets the temperature period in seconds to store temperature samples in DB
+      *
+      * @param period - termperature sampling period in seconds
+      * @param return - pass or fail of attempt
+      */
+      bool set_period(double period);
+      /**
+      * Method to add a temperature sample to the database
+      *
+      * @param temp_sample - temperature sample to be stored to dB
+      */
       void add_sample(double temp_sample);
-      bool change_max_samples(int);
+      /**
+      * Changes number of samples in temperature database.
+      * Current maximum is 100 samples
+      * WARNING: Changing this may trash samples since vector is resized.
+      *
+      * @param num_samples - Number of samples in DB
+      * @param return - pass fail of attemp 
+      */
+      bool change_max_samples(int num_samples);
+      /**
+      * Returns database size in temperature DB
+      *
+      * @param return - current size of temp DB in samples
+      */
 	  int get_max_samples();
+	  /**
+	  * Returns all temperature samples as strings in the database.
+	  * number returned should match max_samples.
+	  *
+	  * @param return - Reference to vector containing temperature DB as strings
+	  */
       const std::vector<std::string> &get_samples();
 
 };