Yep, couple friends have those and are very happy. From memory it's an esp8266 & a few components and code. In my world it woud be opensource but also in my world that guy should be free to do what he wants and really no point having an opinion of it one way or the other..
good idea, been done so must be circuits knocking about. Something to give power for a little while to cope with voltage drops during starting would be nice s well.
Ok - if you are looking for constructive criticism of the idea - I will happily buy stuff, wire it together and configure it in RPi so I'm probably already "more advanced" or at least "more confident" than your "target user". I've never ordered anything via jlcpcb before so that's an extra step into the unknown for me, and to then be deselecting bits of the BOM could be a step too far even for me. I believe you will put off exactly the sort of people you said you were trying to appeal to. On the other hand if the design was the right price and had nice features you might well appeal to people like me - one issue to consider would be lead time I want my toys this week not in a month. To be honest a simple, well supported, well documented "Boat HAT" that came with the most common interfaces might have got an order from me. I'm not the user you described but if it would have saved me sourcing parts, wiring them and mounting them and I knew it would work out the box rather than trying to unpick internet debates about 4K7 v's 10K resistors....
Because I've never heard of Influx, but I use MongoDB in other parts of life so no learning curve. It has a SignalK plugin so should be trivial to add. Perhaps Influx is even better, but its one of the headaches with OpenSource stuff is there is no cohesive strategy so I might decide to go Influx then in six months the world decided Mongo or some new_fangled_toy was flavour of the month and I'm left with a bunch of technical debt trying to work our if I keep nursing it along or undo any effort that's gone in.
rarely is anything truely free - how are Influx funding it and what happens if they go pop or turn on a charged tier and i'm locked to their platform?
are those other places tech / geek "fora". Those people may well be interested simply for the sake of doing it. Here you will get the why? that may seem critical but I think those questions are actually really purposeful because they direct you (if you choose to take it) towards things which might actually be of wider use.
Yep. I've been using network ethernet cables with some little breakouts off ebay, and playing around with having similar on a board, 2 little breakout boards which might snap off the main board. Tidies things up loads. This isn't anything, just a play to see if it looks like it might work. Should do.
It will actually work just using the onboard wifi which creates an access point and connects to a network. Though not stable so best to get a separate usb dongle . Think I might be alone in finding plotted data fascinating
Like the blip in pressure in Europe after a volcano eruption out near Fiji somewhere.That shouldn't be too hard, just unselect the expensive bits you don't want. Might be nice to have headers next to surface mount chips so you could have a nearly bare board & add ebay sensors later if you want.
might wait for Crator
Been mulling over it all, think the way forward today is keep simple. Would really like to update the board on my own boat so just to get the ball running look at getting that together with an eye to the future. Spent a while looking at power supplies but for now easiest just to maybe provide a bit of protection on the way in to allow for a circuit later, mine gets powered from a hifiberry audio amp so for that it doesn't even need 5v. Rushing to get lots bells and whistles never really works. Power down/reboot button would be easy to implement in node red, which works quite well as it's simple to save & share without diving into cron. Nothing node red can't do
ROFLMAO the VE direct from a smartshunt goes straight to a pin as it is 3.3v but most victon gear VEdirect is 5v.
Only 2 so far, not that bad really.
Only 2 so far, not that bad really.
You are fortunate in having the choice to do what you please.
I'm not very keen on celery.
Don't see the point of telling people who are talking about things to do with celery though.
Why would I ? Adds nothing of use and nobody cares or is in the least bit interested in my opinions about not liking celery.
