diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
+    <mapping directory="$PROJECT_DIR$" vcs="Git" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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+Was needs to be done on the Raspberry pi before the tool can run.
+
+1) Set the network-card to a fixed IP adress:
+    - Using sudo nmtui
+    - Adress was set to 10.0.0.111
+
+2) Virtual Environment was created and python packages installed
+    - python3 -m vemv allmende_ems
+    - source allmende_ems/bin/activate
+    - cd projects/allmende_ems
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+pymodbus~=3.8.6
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