Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:49:58 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:49:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="71973f076c01c91b04ae5671a27566ae"; logging-data="745972"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GzfCflZsnHSnlzfzWF9jzvtNyFBgzv28=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:urzeqYdiDrKwNM2q5WTazpMK6nA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2741 On 27/01/2025 08:57, Chris Green wrote: > Bob Martin 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. If I wanted to store large quantities Id add maybe an SSD to the Zero. I think the USB port would recognise that. UIs are wherever possible Web based. -- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain