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I have a home-built system for monitoring the levels in our water tanks (we live on rain water). Of course some people get by with a simple float indicator, bu
by beachy 3y ago
I have a home-built system for monitoring the levels in our water tanks (we live on rain water).
Of course some people get by with a simple float indicator, but why would I do that when I could be using high accuracy hydrostatic sensors, esp32, influxdb, grafana, spring, keycloak and mysql running in AWS?
I certainly wouldn't want to be getting support calls if we were to ever sell, so I would probably remove it myself if that happened.
- edrxty 3y agoWhy would you use AWS for that? That seems like an extremely strange external dependency for a house running on rainwater.
- Sakos 3y agoBecause they can, I guess? There can be fun had in over-engineering personal projects. It can also be educational. It's no more odd than > grafana, spring, keycloak
- beachy 3y agoJust for history. Current values are available without internet on the esp32.
- SpaghettiCthulu 3y agowhy not use a local server, even just an RPi?
- j45 3y agoSometimes the library pushes easier to a cloud. Managing storage and more can still be work and worth doing as a second step since most of the time it’s worth doing the setup over at least one more time.
- beachy 3y agoMainly visions/delusions of a water monitoring SaaS, but it would probably run just fine on a pi
- camel_gopher 3y agoI did something similar but with a small netgate box.
- bigiain 3y agoNah, sell them a monthly subscription for the cloud service. Or put ads in their dashboard and alerts. (Or both. Then work out how to sell their water usage data to 700 "partner" 3rd parties...)
- arcanemachiner 3y agoThen go out of business and leave them with an expensive paperweight.