A quick tip from a network engineer. Document every single connection in visio or an equivalent software. Print that out and laminate it. Document all your IP addresses you use and be sure everything is statically assigned. Make sure you have redundancy factored in. Don't just build 1 SD card build 2 so you have a backup in case the primary fails. label both ends of every cable so you know where it is going to / where it is coming from. These small things will save you immense headaches in the future.
@TheFloridaCaptain
11 күн бұрын
Great idea! Thank you!
@CaymanIslandsCatWalks
4 күн бұрын
Multiple redundancies is ideal.
@DeadlyDragon_
3 күн бұрын
@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks 100% especially when it comes to being out on the water. My parents are retired coast guard and I myself was a network engineer as a contractor for the USCG for a few years. Redundancy is critical to your safety :)
@CaymanIslandsCatWalks
3 күн бұрын
@@DeadlyDragon_ I wrote my comment before he said that he not even near a boat yet. Solid tips from you!
@Andysanche
12 күн бұрын
One little tip on the newer Pi's from my experience using them as embedded monitoring systems, load your OS onto a really good usb3.x stick (or even better a proper nvme/pci drive) as opposed to an sd. I have had an almost 100% failure on PI's using sd cards (from all different manufactures and quality levels) when putting them into a real production environment. most if not all SD cards just are not designed for the constant read and write cycles that a main hard drive on a pc experiences. I know you had mentioned you were likely going to be using a different PC on the final system but might help a little with some of the headaches.
@Shaarawi32
12 күн бұрын
I've been binge watching the series and that was the first thing that caught my eye. I'd go as far as to say skip usb/nvme and go with sata ssd. You'll hit a bottleneck with nvme drives. But any of those options will be better than sticking with the sd card
@TheFloridaCaptain
12 күн бұрын
I appreciate these comments. I'm obviously in an ideal environment (house, with AC, etc). This will be in a pilothouse 50-60 ft boat. While it won't get wet, the rest of the environment will be hard on the electronics. So how does a SATA SSD connect to the Pi?
@AlexTacescu
11 күн бұрын
With a Pi 5, I would go for an nvme sad simply to reduce the requirement of a USB port. They make some super sleek nvme drives that attach to the bottom of the pi and avoiding much added thickness
@TheFloridaCaptain
11 күн бұрын
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
@billlindner
8 күн бұрын
You may want to run your box cooling fans on a relay using a bme280 (temp, press, humidity) and node red software to minimize power consumption. Since the bme280 is i2c, you could also monitor the box temp in KIP.
@TheFloridaCaptain
8 күн бұрын
Great idea. I have a bme280 laying around too.
@davethemmp
4 күн бұрын
Great video, love the board, I used to do this at work, I am an industrial electrician, I used to build panels with AC drives PLC’s and computers controlling industrial manufacturing machines, same process as yours then move to an enclosure when fully functional Looks like we are on the same wave length with our projects I now monitor pi cpu temp to determine box cooling keep up the great videos I’m learning from you 😂
@TheFloridaCaptain
4 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@TheFloridaCaptain
4 күн бұрын
Although, I do wonder if I could do this with heat shrinks and no fans and thus, a truly sealed box
@DeadlyDragon_
3 күн бұрын
@@TheFloridaCaptain the Pis are low heat but depending on the application running on them they could require some cooling.
@Maaniic
9 күн бұрын
Running VNC probably also consumes alot of resources from the PI, better connect directly to a monitor and if this is going run over the network in production run it headless(no ui/displayserver installed) and if possible a webui on another PC (prob need to configure alot over SSH if you can do that).
@TheFloridaCaptain
9 күн бұрын
Good idea!
@gjheydon
7 күн бұрын
I would not use x on a raspberry pi. I would run on things you can run on a web browser. If there are things you need to run in a gui then run it on a windows or a Linux desktop.
@L0wPressure
12 күн бұрын
Oh, man, that's such a joy to see that you can do such things yourself and on a limited budget nowadays :)
@TheFloridaCaptain
12 күн бұрын
It sure is! Thanks for the comment.
@georgef7754
11 күн бұрын
Do you have 4.7k pullup resistors on the ds18b20 temp sensors? If not you will see junk data.
@TheFloridaCaptain
10 күн бұрын
I did not. I’ll check this out.
@Jessassin
9 күн бұрын
This is a really cool project! Excited to see where you take it. As someone else pointed out, the SD card on your pi is the single most likely thing to fail. I would strongly recommend you use an SSD instead of an SD card if you can help it. If you must use an SD card, invest in a "high endurance" card. Several brands make them - most will be branded as "high endurance", "industrial", or "edge". Still, an SSD is definitely the way to go IMO. Edit: I believe the pi 5 has a dedicated PCIE interface, that you can use to directly attach a PCIE (NVME) SSD. If this were my project, I would do exactly this.
@TheFloridaCaptain
8 күн бұрын
I think this is a good idea (and also moving to Pi 5).
@seebradrun
12 күн бұрын
Cool!
@TheFloridaCaptain
11 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@sidneyking11
11 күн бұрын
Tip: Sdcard have a slow read write performance that could be the cause of it crashing. You might want to consider using a ssd drive instead. You can get a 512gb ssd cheaply these days. Also Sdcard tends to go bad easily.
@TheFloridaCaptain
10 күн бұрын
Thanks for the advice
@alexd7466
42 минут бұрын
everything wireless would be so much easier...
@Cerv3ra
9 күн бұрын
Are you doing fuzz testing?
@TheFloridaCaptain
9 күн бұрын
As in testing for police nearby? ;). Tell me more!
@user-jn4ey5sj2c
14 сағат бұрын
I don’t think the whaler needs this lol😮
@TheFloridaCaptain
13 сағат бұрын
No, the Whaler needs a worthy mothership!
@user-jn4ey5sj2c
11 сағат бұрын
@@TheFloridaCaptain That’s is very true make her proud
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