Getting started as a hobby developer

[aditya-pethe]

I am a developer / hobbyist that came across the CETI project from a youtube video on whale codas, it looks really interesting!

I tried to upload whaletag data into an s3 bucket, but I guess that same LAN means my machine has to be on the same network as the whale tag devices themselves?

I think it would be great if the open source community could help with the development side of the CETI project. Once a sufficiently large dataset from whaletags has been collected, hosting a kaggle competition might generate good engagement with programmers. I think people would be really interested in playing with / analyzing whale data.

I also may be misunderstanding the data upload process, but if there was a way to fetch the whaletag/CETI data remotely / not on LAN, that would also be useful. I think this project is cool, best of luck 🐋

[claymore666]

I've just created two tools that let developers contribute without AWS credentials or physical whale tags:

LocalStack Integration (PR #33) - Test S3 uploads locally:
git clone https://github.com/claymore666/data-ingest.git
cd data-ingest
git checkout feature/localstack-testing-integration
pip install -e .[test]
make test-local
Browse: https://github.com/claymore666/data-ingest/tree/feature/localstack-testing-integration

Whale Tag Simulator (PR #35) - Test whale tag operations locally:
git checkout feature/whale-tag-simulator
make whaletag-up
CONTAINER_IP=$(docker inspect -f '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' wt-b827eb123456)
ceti whaletag -t $CONTAINER_IP
Browse: https://github.com/claymore666/data-ingest/tree/feature/whale-tag-simulator

Everything runs in Docker - no AWS account, no physical hardware, no special network setup needed! Full docs in each branch's docs/TESTING.md.

These PRs are under review for the main repo, but you can test them now from my branches. 🐋

Let me know if you have questions!

[InterstellarIntruder]

Hey -- I put together a local dev setup that should make it possible to work on this project without AWS credentials or physical whale tag hardware. See #44.

After cloning you can just run make install && make test and everything works offline. There's also a Docker-based whale tag mock if you want to test the ceti whaletag commands locally.