Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued

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.

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Chris Green
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