I have a project that requires a low powered internet appliance that has a serial port to continually read some information from a data logger. The performance requirements are very modest. Just need to read from the device every second (roughly), accumulate some data, and be able to send it to to a fixed ip address on the internet (probably using SOAP). Oh, and I prefer to use Python rather than C/C++ (but can compromise if that's the only option). I need it to be really really cheap (sub $50), so a commodity device is probably the best way to go.
Are there any openwrt platforms that would be suitable ?? I do have a TP-Link MR3220. It works great and I'm sure I could use a USB-to-Serial cable (but it's and added expense that's not really warranted). Ideally I'd like one ethernet port (10Mb is ok), one external serial port (and one internal would be cool too for root console). An internal SD slot would also be cool for larger custom filesystems. Also, I tried doing an "opkg install curl" and "opkg install python" but they wouldn't fit on the device. Does it not really have enough space for these apps, or is using opkg the wrong way to go about things ?? Maybe creating a new filesystem and flashing it is the way to go ?? I don't really know as I'm very new to openwrt :) Thanks for any advice/pointers. Brendan. _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
