True, it is overkill, but the reduced performance is not a problem for me. And BBGs are getting pretty inexpensive. I've got a fair amount of experience with the BB and like that I can open up a shell and see what's going on with it, which is better for my simple engineer's mind. Wifi systems tend to require some tending to, so it's best I understand the system as well as possible. And I would prefer not to have to learn about a different platform. I'm not proficient with I2C or even serial comm, whereas BB has a lot of off-the-shelf software that I can easily access. But even at that, I'm currently stuck in Node red trying to tcp from 1 board to the next, but I can't get the connection made. I just bricked one of my BBs playing with the interfaces file and now I've got to reflash it. So... gotta go with what is easiest for me to understand.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:27 PM, TJF <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard! > > Why do you plan to use the BBGW? Isn't this an overkill for just reading > or writing some GPIO? You'll have to deal will long boot time and all the > LINUX overhead. > > I mean, why don't you plan to use an ESP 8266 module instead, ie. ESP12E > <https://mintbox.in/media/esp-12e.pdf>. It's cheap, comes with WiFi and > can handle at least 12 GPIOs, booting fast and can get programmed in Python > (but LUA has better support). > > Regards > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/beagleboard/59BZEmeiSIE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/c0f2661d-0fba-45b7-af2c-f2c02aa91a40%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/c0f2661d-0fba-45b7-af2c-f2c02aa91a40%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAMYVp3m_XnHyZJM1m4jhX2u1ZUGyW3_WNtVSAFMox7X5LaVYoA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
