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Putting extra hardware in there to allow it to run Linux is probably less expensive than the savings from being able to target Linux for your software.
by Denvercoder9 5y ago
Putting extra hardware in there to allow it to run Linux is probably less expensive than the savings from being able to target Linux for your software.
- londons_explore 5y agoBut you could probably make the users happy by just running example IoT code from the Arduino IDE... I don't feel like the on-device code is the expensive bit of this.
- dolmen 5y agoThe aim of the home automation software/hardware industry is not make users happy. It is to make profit. Any user support (extreme example: dealing with user who brick their devices or play with it in unintended way) cuts into profit.