I just found this community over the weekend. I am excited to look at both the hardware and software, as this is something that I want to introduce to an environmental sustainability club at the high school.We have 2 projects where we want to use similar architecture and software to interface to the PIs. A gardening project, where we may start with this code, and a swarm robotic project where we will try to get a bunch of PIs talking to each other to explore swarm robotics.One networking configuration that we are trying to implement right away is a simple way to toggle between hostapd and having a PI connect to an existing network, preferably internet connected. Having this capability would allow students to easily do OS upgrades while connected to the internet. If we get a little farther along, and after I look at hydrosys's software and networking layer, I can share what we are doing.
I have seen a few tutorials on setting PIs up to be routers that support both a local network as well as an internet connection - typically while hardwired to an ethernet. I haven't thought much about that yet, but having something similar for hydrosys, if secure, could provide a way to send messaging to users via the internet, if/when needed.
... so it looks like this feature is already there, where you can reconnect to another network. Is there a thread somewhere that may discuss that feature in the context of using multiple hydrosys RPIs?
Expanding on this. My host RaspberryPi already has its network address and identity configured and I don't want to introduce any access points into my environment. I want to simply run the software on an existing RPi. Thanks
I just found this community over the weekend. I am excited to look at both the hardware and software, as this is something that I want to introduce to an environmental sustainability club at the high school. We have 2 projects where we want to use similar architecture and software to interface to the PIs. A gardening project, where we may start with this code, and a swarm robotic project where we will try to get a bunch of PIs talking to each other to explore swarm robotics. One networking configuration that we are trying to implement right away is a simple way to toggle between hostapd and having a PI connect to an existing network, preferably internet connected. Having this capability would allow students to easily do OS upgrades while connected to the internet. If we get a little farther along, and after I look at hydrosys's software and networking layer, I can share what we are doing.
I have seen a few tutorials on setting PIs up to be routers that support both a local network as well as an internet connection - typically while hardwired to an ethernet. I haven't thought much about that yet, but having something similar for hydrosys, if secure, could provide a way to send messaging to users via the internet, if/when needed.
I've tried simply commenting out the installs in the install_hydrosys4.sh script:
fn_hostapd
fn_dnsmasq
fn_dhcpcd
fn_ifnames
But I then get 502 Gateway errors from Nginx. Has anyone simply used apache as the web server?
Expanding on this. My host RaspberryPi already has its network address and identity configured and I don't want to introduce any access points into my environment. I want to simply run the software on an existing RPi. Thanks