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?
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.