Greetings to all hiveeyes community from Vladimir, Russia!
My name is Dmitry Sorokin.
First of all big thanks for this great project, for all the information and knowledge accumulated in code, documentation, and forum.
I was practicing backyard beekeeping from 2008 besides my day work in IT and industrial automation.
I had a little break last few years but in this season I put few families back again.
Now I have two hives already equipped to collect and transmit data.
It is done with ESP32 modules similarly as it is done for ESP8266.
I have two half-weight scales, DS18B20 temperature sensors and some other sensors to be installed.
Mosquitto, Influxdb, Grafana, Kotori are installed on a local Debian Stretch machine and already accepting the data.
What I want to do next:
prepare more and better scales
make the setup more fault tolerant
set acquisition machine on Raspberry Pi with external storage
retransmit data to hiveeyes cloud (with lower frequency)
add more sensors
test more firmware (like micropython nodes)
That is the plan and what I got already would not be possible that quick without the hiveeyes’ examples and docs.
You are welcome to join! Please let me know when you are ready to set up a dedicated account for you. We will be happy to add you as a member in order to get some data from Russia into our data collection.
If you are still reading our forum, you might have recognized that we have been getting crazy about MicroPython just recently. The outcome of that is our Terkin-Datalogger which has come quite far so far. We will be happy to get this into more hands in order to improve and stabilize the code base.