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Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:24 am
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jalves
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm considering going down this route in my home which will require acquisition of several new pi boards. I've been playing around with a couple of Pi s for fun at home and in the shack. Still finding my way around setting them up (headless) but getting to the point where I've been thinking of uses for this little device.
My question is, should I buy the latest Pi (3b+) or would a Pi Zero W work well enough for Pi Beacon? I'm thinking I would need ~ 5-10 devices to cover the house.
ETA: It really doesn't matter to me in terms of pricing, size of SD card, or physical size. I'm willing to go for whatever works best. One Pi would be in a garage that here in FL gets pretty warm inside. Otherwise others will be in a AC environment. First test application will probably be in the garage to check on the status of our two cars being present or away.
ETA 2: The devices don't need to do anything else except being the sensor/receiver. The will need to connect over WiFi and be administered remotely, preferably by VNC but SSH would work.
Running Indigo 2023.2 on a 24" iMac M1), OS X 14.4
Jeff