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Yes, if you use our Notehub there is a free tier, and higher tiers are still very reasonable. (It does cost money to run infrastructure.) That said, although
by rozzie 5y ago
Yes, if you use our Notehub there is a free tier, and higher tiers are still very reasonable. (It does cost money to run infrastructure.)
That said, although we don't talk much about it, the HN crowd may be interested in knowing that this exists: https://github.com/blues/note https://github.com/blues/note
If you want to use the Notecard and you like Golang, you can spin up your own server and switch the notecard to speak with it via the "host" field in this JSON request:
https://dev.blues.io/reference/notecard-api/hub-requests/#hub-set https://dev.blues.io/reference/notecard-api/hub-requests/#hu...
- ourcat 5y agoI see there's a board for an ESP-32 Huzzah Feather devkit, which can run a web server too. Interesting. Also interesting is no need for 'KYC'.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoI know "meta" is discouraged on HN but I absolutely love that I can participate in a forum where Ray Ozzie replies to a comment made by John Nagle.
- kbenson 5y agoI think it's not so much that meta is discouraged as much as knee-jerk emotional meta reactions are, because they rarely lead to useful discussion. Complaining about downvotes or that you think the mods are being unfair are ultimately selfish actions most the time that drag the rest of the discussion down. At the same time, people sharing some of their favorite "HN discussion brought amazing person to the fore that shared" moments and links to them has allowed me and others to revisit and share in those moments and learn some of those amazing things shared even though we weren't part of that discussion.
- samstave 5y agoSo.... if you were to connect this free board to something, such that it provided GPS coords in each message (whats max msg length? It would seem that you can do ~6 messages per hour, every hour, for the month - for free? Is this correct? So I can make a GPS child tracker for my kids backpacks - and it would just cost the $50 -- EDIT, ah for 10 years. This is wonderful. We attempted to negotiate this in 2007 after leaving Lockheeds RFID division, and nobody would touch it :-( for our sensors.
- rlonn 5y agoI've also thought about building a GPS child tracker, as I haven't found any reasonable/good existing options out there. Tell me if you need any assistance. I am a semi-incompetent full stack developer with IoT experience, reachable at hello at pushdata. io
- jsilence 5y agoWould also be interested.
- spoonjim 5y agoI used a Samsung SmartThings tracker to track my baby’s stroller.
- toomuchtodo 5y agohttps://relaygo.com/families/relay https://relaygo.com/families/relay ?
- jurgemaister 5y agoI know I'm a bit late to the party, but Xplora[1] makes smart watches for children that can be used to call and also has a GPS tracker. They've become very popular here in Norway. [1] https://shop.myxplora.com/ https://shop.myxplora.com/
- chris1993 5y agoWhy is it desirable to track the kids backpacks? Are they so very untidy that they often get lost?
- samstave 5y agoBackpacks are a mechanism for transporting your belongings in a convenient bag fashioned with straps such that you may wear it, carry your belongings AND have your hands free. They would typically be worn by the child, and thus a good indicator of where your snowflake is. But I want to use this to put on BIKES!
- oliwarner 5y ago"That's all you pay", says the website. That seem significantly inaccurate if the deploy cost could be over 100× the headline "that's all you pay" figure.
- sipacate 5y agoYes, you are correct. I am responsible for the messaging on blues.io and I agree with you, we could do a better, more full job explaining. We are working through the final elements of a website revamp right now. I chose to update the whole site, rather than do it piece by piece so please accept my apology. If you comment to this thread, I'll circle back and let everyone know when the site is updated and you can tell us what you think about it.