Embedded World 2023 - BeaglePlay Give Away, Meet & Greet with Jason Kridner

Sounds like a good opportunity. All the best to the participants. 

Hi Phil,

I hope you all have fun there, as well as a productive work time! I was wondering, can you get these from Embedded World if they are available, for a small giveaway too : ) They are on the Farnell website, but not in stock for a month : ( 

Also, question for Jason : ) 

Anyone working on a tutorial for using the BeagleConnect Freedom with Windows? (e.g. using Windows Subsystem for Linux). It will be nice for people to quickly get started that way on a desktop, before moving to a Linux board.

I like the device has chip with Sub-GHz communication support which makes this device unique. Other SBC usualy has Wi-FI/BLE but sub-GHz requires additional module/shield. I do not know how hard would it be to implement because it is not handled by main CPU.

I plan to atend Embedded world this year so I most probably will meet you at wednesday. My project proposal featuring sub-GHz is gateway for connecting multiple low-power remote sensors sending their measurements over 433 MHz band and non-low-power BeaglePlay listening for data from sensors on 433 MHz band and forwarding data to the Internet (cloud). This results to systeminto system that many sensors can run on battery and one gateway connects all of them to the internet.

Use it in Home automation with BLE/ Wifi, and subGhz Sensor communications.

And .. my local Music server with Display

As shabaz mentioned, BeaglePlay would be best tested with one or more BeagleConnect Freedom modules.

I use a variety of sensors for measuring ambient environment - SHTC3 and SHT31 for temperature and humidity, LPS22HH for ambient pressure, SCD30 as an IR CO2 sensor, SGPC3 as a VOC sensor, SPS30 for mass concentration in the air and SFA30 to detect formaldehyde. This setup has been working for almost 3 years in two homes.

All the sensors are connected to an STM32G071, which creates a sensor hub and published all the measured data via a serial port to the raspberry pi, which stores the values through node-red into an influx db. It also publishes the data via a web interface of Chronograf.

I have been thinking a lot about making this compact, but also wireless, mainly for the possibility to connect three of these sensor hubs into one concetrator for data visualization and finding some trends and predictions.

I am really curious about the sub-ghz interface and making it easy for me as a developer to embed the wireless communication as simple as possible. The reason why I haven't made this wireless, yet, is the complexity. Also, I don't think it is a good idea to invent own transfer protocols. BeaglePlay and BeagleConnect Freedom might really help in this. I am very curious and looking forward to seeing it more in depth!

Very nice sensor selection! It seems an ideal candidate for the BeagleConnect Freedom + BeaglePlay combination. 

Having on bard sub-1GHz module together with 2.4 GHz protocols Zigbee, Thread, Ethernet, 5Ghz WiFi and power over RJ 11 make it perfect for my current project.

Project: Open Source Smart Home Control with Human Machine Interface

The project aims to provide ready to use platform for home automatization with integrated wireless solution.

Integrating devices using well know protocols as Zigbee Thread and Amazon Sidewalk (Amazon Echo devices, Ring Security Cams end others) into single platform.

Power full embedded platform allows hosting of all services on device instead of using cloud providers without additional hardware.

Operating system: Debian

Pre-installed software: 

• Home Assistant - brilliant HMI
  
• Node Red for configuration of advanced flows
• Zigbee2mqtt for integration of Zigbee devices
  
• Eclipse Mosquitto - as MQTT Hub
  
• Eclipse Ditto - for digital twin representation
  

General challenges:

• Integrate Zigbee2mqtt with BeagleConnect
• Matter integration
• Add support for OpenTherm protocol

Challenges for CC1352P7 BeagleConnect:

• include support of Elero/Somfy protocols for windows curtains - working prototype on other TI chip
• include support Bresser Weather Stations

Challenges for HMI:

• selection of display and digitizer

I will be glad to run the project on the BeaglePlay  instead of the RPI 4 with wireless adapters.

Would love to see if it's powerful enough to run Home assistant natively!

I got mine here on the community stand at Embedded world!

Cool, I was thinking about similar solution!