MarkJames Posted April 7, 2017 Author Posted April 7, 2017 True enough, but a tag manager is $40, so that tag actually costs $65. Toss in the fact that I had a Pi, power supply, case and SD card laying around, and it's not a bad deal. Also, you could get a Pi Zero W for $10. Plenty of horsepower for a sensor reading. Plus there's the whole 'I'm a DIY type'. Telling me I don't have to code it or build it isn't a selling point. lol - there's no arguing with someone who wants to build something. I built an elaborate coffee bean loader for my coffee roaster a couple of years ago using sheet stainless and RC servos along with a custom built enclosure for an interface to it using two custom made thermocouples, an arduino, a graphing LCD, and a dozen or so buttons and switches. I used it for a month before I forgot it outside and it filled with rain lol.
builderb Posted April 7, 2017 Posted April 7, 2017 lol - there's no arguing with someone who wants to build something. I built an elaborate coffee bean loader for my coffee roaster a couple of years ago using sheet stainless and RC servos along with a custom built enclosure for an interface to it using two custom made thermocouples, an arduino, a graphing LCD, and a dozen or so buttons and switches. I used it for a month before I forgot it outside and it filled with rain lol.Are we arguing? I didn't think so. There are a lot of ways to skin the proverbial cat, the "best" way is highly subjective. I simply stated one way that I personally have used for light detection. YMMV.
MarkJames Posted April 7, 2017 Author Posted April 7, 2017 Are we arguing? I didn't think so. There are a lot of ways to skin the proverbial cat, the "best" way is highly subjective. I simply stated one way that I personally have used for light detection. YMMV. lol - no argument from me. I love building things. Heck - I'm sitting here looking at monoprice 3d printers as I type. Why? I dunno - cuz they look cool. mark 1
jgcharlotte Posted April 8, 2017 Posted April 8, 2017 I'm not sure why you polling the device would be any more prone to collisions than the device sending data to you. If anything you polling a device would give you a better chance of scheduling data retrieval when nothing else is going on hence avoiding collisions. When the device sends data to you you have no control over - and it knows nothing of - the current state of your network traffic. This seemed to be the problem with Insteon motion sensors - flooding your network with signals. Regardless - so long as there is some form of queuing going on I don't think it matters one way or the other. I agree, I would rather have it polled on my schedule instead of just randomly sending out signals. I keep it at 15 minutes to keep the traffic down.
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