{"id":138,"date":"2013-11-28T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-12-07T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:39:17","slug":"from-poolduino-to-beaglepool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"From poolDuino to bbPool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fisrt pool monitoring system was <a title=\"Arduino's web site\" href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino <\/a>based (more info <a title=\"Let's build a pool monitoring system\" href=\"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=69\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>) It could collect pH, ORP and temperature from my pool and store it on an SD card. But I wanted to send all this data to some web site like my own emoncms.<\/p>\n<p>So I needed Internet access. To do this with an Arduino, I either need<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Arduino Uno + an ethernet shield (~20\u20ac + 35\u20ac = ~55\u20ac)<\/li>\n<li>An Arduino Ethernet (~60\u20ac)<\/li>\n<li>An Arduino Uno + <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/ArduinoWirelessProtoShield\" target=\"_blank\">Wireless Shield<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microchip.com\/wwwproducts\/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en558370\" target=\"_blank\">RN-XV Wifly<\/a> (~20\u20ac + +17\u20ac + 44\u20ac = 81\u20ac )<\/li>\n<li>An <a title=\"Arduino Y\u00fan\" href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/ArduinoBoardYun\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino Y\u00f9n<\/a> (~62\u20ac)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I want Wifi, I found RN-XV module difficult to use and quite instable (no sure though if it is my program, the libs I use or the wifly itself.)<\/li>\n<li>A Raspberry Pi is less than 40\u20ac, has build in ethernet, is way more powerfull&#8230; and adding Wifi is ~20\u20ac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Problem though : Pi has only 1 UART available&#8230; and I needed 2. I known there are workarounds but having a look around, I stumbled upon <a title=\"BeagleBone Black official Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/Products\/BeagleBone%20Black\" target=\"_blank\">BeagleBone Black<\/a>\u00a0(BBB) :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build in ethernet<\/li>\n<li>Many GPIO ports and several UARTs<\/li>\n<li>Running Linux<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And &#8220;only&#8221; 45\u20ac !<\/p>\n<p>So I decided I&#8217;ll give it a try : poolDuino is now becoming bbPool !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fisrt pool monitoring system was Arduino based (more info here.) It could collect pH, ORP and temperature from my pool and store it on an SD card. But I wanted to send all this data to some web site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[47,34,33,32,31],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaglepool","tag-bbpool","tag-beaglebone-black","tag-orp","tag-ph","tag-poolduino-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}