[Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #13: Clousure

RE: [Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #13: Clousure

mcb1 — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:35:57 GMT

Caterina

Even though you may not have achieved everything you set out to, you have learnt some very valuable skills for the future.

The planning of any project (large or small) is the most important aspect. I've seen so called Project Managers fail simply because their planning didn't look at all the stumbling points.

The best thing you can do is continue the work, and blog about it.

This will help you and show you are committed to completing a task.

I always enjoyed these challenges but they do take a lot of your personal time, so you really need three or four months clear schedule.

Cheers

mark

RE: [Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #13: Clousure

DAB — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:31:46 GMT

All in all, not bad progress.

These types of challenges tend to be overtaken by events, despite you best efforts.

Keep us posted as you complete the build, you have a very interesting project.

DAB

RE: [Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #13: Clousure

jomoenginer — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:06:50 GMT

Caterina,

I ended in the same boat to where I ran out of time, but I certainly am impressed with how you documented your project. Taking time to plan it all out would have helped on my end.

Your project concept is impressive and it will be interesting to see it completed.

On the saving the MQTT message side, I used a Dictionary and Json Dump/Load to save and restore the messages. This allows the system to be shutdown and restore the timer setting without losing it.

SQL would be nice to implement though.

Cheers,

Jon