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by safetyfactorman
Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

@kevinkk525 - thanks!
by safetyfactorman
Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

@kevinkk525 - I was just going to send you a direct message to see how hard it would be to use your project to play with homeassistant. I have homeassistant running on my mac. I have a pyboard. Will your esp8266 code run on the pyboard? interfacing is a main focus of homeassistant. The mqtt interfac...
by safetyfactorman
Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:59 am
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

Perhaps this question is better addressed at a later time. The funder of micropython may be interested in the interfacing of micropython to other projects. IEC11631-3 is one. Perhaps homeassistant is another. Perhaps it will be up to some vendor to initiate this development. From what I have gathere...
by safetyfactorman
Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:54 am
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326542218_OpenPLC_An_IEC_61131-3_Compliant_Open_Source_Industrial_Controller_for_Cyber_Security_Research Section 4 of the document gives a discussion of the architecture and design considerations of the openplc as per the design of Thiago Alves, which may be ...
by safetyfactorman
Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: search for an inexpensive device to detect housebreaking
Replies: 19
Views: 10121

Re: search for an inexpensive device to detect housebreaking

If you want to have better security, make sure that your electronics are protected by a time lock, that can only be opened when you are around.

Intermatic makes configurable 365 day timers, quite sophisticated, but also quite expensive...
by safetyfactorman
Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

corporations (codesys?) supports open software where it suits their corporate interests. openplc is an open platform for IEC61131-3. for example, codesys is built to use, or built on top of (not sure) of the oscat open source control libraries. And codesys runs on a raspberry pi. So, codesys will us...
by safetyfactorman
Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:23 pm
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: plant watering
Replies: 41
Views: 173933

Re: plant watering

I'm not sure what your requirements are, but you may find the opensprinkler project of interest. https://opensprinkler.com/product/opensprinkler-pi/ The software has a c/c++ verson and a python version. I am trying to learn the python version, so I can hack it. https://rayshobby.net/mediawiki/index....
by safetyfactorman
Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?
Replies: 15
Views: 8641

Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

I personally would buy 10 of them in a heartbeat, because my time is saved flashing the sdram card, or updating the flash. corporations might eat it up because they buy a boat load of them and then deploy. And Damien gets to be on the hook for support. That's why corporations will support it. And he...
by safetyfactorman
Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Target audience for MicroPython?
Replies: 63
Views: 77257

Re: Target audience for MicroPython?

I'm a bit late to this discussion, but would like to propose consideration of a different picture. I used to be a programmer in my previous life, but gave it up in 2002. I'm now back looking at it again, largely because of micropython. I would like to propose that micropython become an IEC61131-3 la...