Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-24 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
I haven't done much with the flask stuff yet, due to 'one damn thing after another' on the home front. The web updater for the Audio Guide / Quiz was always a 'Desirable' rather than 'Essential' feature, so I'm focusing on fixing the blocked drain, broken tumble drier, central heating always on

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Terry, On Thursday, 22 June 2017, at 13:23:35 BST, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > That's sounding as if you'd have a database server sitting on > the network with all the slave and the master being its > clients, sending SQL to modify tables. And if the slaves are > writing to the tables, and the mas

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:23:35 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I'm assuming that minimising power consumption won't be an issue either > way. Obviously we won't want to install a heavier sub-station for the WMT, but no; we have no known issues with power ATM :-) > I'm guessing slave Pis will onl

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > The control system will be a distributed network of Raspberry Pis, > interconnected by Ethernet cable (we are trialling Power over Ethernet > to see if we can power the remote devices without needing mains local > to them). I'm assuming that minimising power consumption won't be an is

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread tda
Hi Terry On 22/06/17 12:25, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:17:56 BST Terry Coles wrote: I'm not sure that I understand how this works. Taking the Remote Pi; it reads the water level and writes the value to a variable. Fine so far, but how can the Master Pi, then read that var

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:17:56 BST Terry Coles wrote: > I'm not sure that I understand how this works. Taking the Remote Pi; it > reads the water level and writes the value to a variable. Fine so far, but > how can the Master Pi, then read that variable? That variable is a > location in the

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:12:29 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: > Using a database to deal with concurrent reads and writes is a bit of > overkill. These are only an issue if you have multiple threads running > on the master AND reads and writes are not atomic. Using variables equal > to or l

Re: [Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread tda
Hi Terry On 22/06/17 11:54, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, (Yet Another Wimborne Model Town Question) :-) The system design for the WMT River System Water Sustainability Programme (that really is its name) is progressing slowly and we have tentatively agreed on a number of things. The control system

[Dorset] YAWMT Question

2017-06-22 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, (Yet Another Wimborne Model Town Question) :-) The system design for the WMT River System Water Sustainability Programme (that really is its name) is progressing slowly and we have tentatively agreed on a number of things. The control system will be a distributed network of Raspberry Pis,