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From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
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Subject: Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:29:31 +0000
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 27/01/2025 08:57, Chris Green wrote:
> > Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What really is getting to me is that the non-GUI user who wants to use
> >>> a Pi (or arduino or BBB) to moinitor the temperature in his garage
> >>
> >> An RPi is overkill for a job like that.
> >> An ESP32 or Arduino will keep things simple at far lower cost.
> >>
> > But a Pi is much more accessible (in the sense of being easy to access
> > your data directly).  It's just so much handier to communicate with,
> > as in the case of my Pi running on a boat in France, it does all the
> > work of connecting and so on as well as collecting data.  In my case
> > it also drives two displays.
> > 
> > ... and it's not exactly expensive, £33 for a 1GB 4B and a lot less if
> > you go for a Pi Zero.
> > 
> > I do have a couple of Arduinos and ESP32s but given that you really
> > need another computer to access them and do anything useful with the
> > data I always end up deciding that a Pi (or a BeagleBone Black) is
> > just so much easier as a standalone system.
> > 
> 
> My organically growing network uses Picos to collect the data and a Pi 
> Zero to receive it and display it and do what is needful with it.
> 
Well my boat's system uses just an ancient Pi B+ and I2C to collect
all the data, no other microcontrollers or anything.

-- 
Chris Green
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