Hi /diy/ I'm still setting up my controllers for my au

>>1133589
I would simply add a dns entry in my router. DHCP reservation too probably because its just easier than trying to keep track of what flavour of the week setting static ip in Linux is now. Fucking systemd you don't need a hundred layers of network managers

>>1133589

Just do dual wifi. Cheap wifi modules are like $1.50 free shipping.

>>1133589
The parts of horticulture you can automate can be done with timers. The parts you can't involve manual inspection.

What are you trying to automate, exactly? BC if you're not in there every few days you'll miss one of the thousand things that can go wrong but isn't big deal if you catch it early.

>>1133880
I'm programming a raspberry pi controlling an arduino and all its IO glory to control misting cycles, ph balances, agitator propellers, solenoids, several pumps, co2 ratios, PAR spectrum balance, temp/humidity, and maybe more.

Most of this will be on schedules, but there is no one schedule to rule them all. Different plants have different needs, by objectifying those needs into code - I can take clones and conduct experiments to discover which configurations cater to those needs best.

To do that I need a control panel. Schedules are easy to code, as are webpages. I'd have to code it for the microcontroller either way. The challenge is finding a ubiquitous means of doing that over wifi.

Adding local controls adds in human interference, and increases overall build cost to add a screen when everyone is already staring at one.

>>1133596
while that would get the job done, its not quite what I was looking for. I want to make this userfriendly so horticultural students could easily use it. Considering the technical knowledge needed to change DNS configuration, that would be asking the normies too much.

>>1134158
DNS is set by DHCP, unless they have purposely disabled that. If the pi and the student are both connected to a router running dnsmasq or whatever it can add whatever entries it wants, transparent to the user.

Just make the pi set up it's own network when it can't find one it knows the credentials for. Make people connecting land on a page they can use to set the wifi settings. Then use that to connect.