The Pi3 arrived yesterday. It was even faster to set up than the Pi4, but I attribute that to a faster WiFi connection rather than anything else. In any case, it's up and running with Apache web server and PHP on it.
As it will be used remotely, I bought a portable phone charger to power it. This one, in fact. Right now, I've got my Pi4 running a ping command every 2 seconds to see how long the Pi3 will run on the battery. The system looks like this.
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| Thanks to wife kitteh, it's a very festive Pi3. |
I don't have time to test the camera connection right now. That will have to wait until tonight. Last weekend, I tried hooking the camera up to my Ubuntu server and taking a picture through that, but while the camera identified itself over the USB port, it refused to admit that it was, in fact, a video capture device. Like a pouting girlfriend, it wouldn't respond to the server and so I gave up until the Pi3 arrived. Maybe it will have more luck. If not, there are commands to make the Pi3 recognize it as a video device via the camera's unique ID.
This is fun!
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Well, you know how it is with rabbits. You start with two, and next thing you known they are all over the place.
Seriously!
I also bought some soil moisture meters designed to connect to a Raspberry Pi so I could set up a soil tester that would give me feedback every, say, 4 hours. Think of the charts and graphs!
By the way, the Pi3 has been running off the battery for more than 6 hours now and the battery still reads FULL.
Excellent.
The Pis are very efficient things. I have 3 Zero Ws, a 3 and a 4, in the house. I wish I would have bought a 4 with more memory. ESXi will run on it. I haven't looked at the new pico yet.
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