ratsathome
Well-Known Member
Quick question.
Will a "touch screen" monitor work for this setup?
Will a "touch screen" monitor work for this setup?
Adafruit has a touch screen that connects to the gpio so you could make a custom serial cable and possible use their code w/ some tweaks for your setup.
Be aware that using other products for the GPIO may mean you're not able to use RPints flow monitoring or hardware control.
The one I'm looking at have the following connections.
*Multiple ports and cables:**VGA, USB, DP and HDMI connectivity plus an MHL
How can i get chrome to open up as the Pi starts so all i have to do is start my PI. Have we figured out how to get chrome to start in full screen mode once opening?
OK so no full screen but can I have chrome start on start up?
Your research is spot on. The way most of them run is just by flipping a data line on when motion is detected, and off otherwise. The only issue is making sure that you're doing voltage level conversion if the PIR data line is 5v. Make sure to give the GPIO pins 3v3 or else you're going to have a very bad day. That doesn't increase the complexity a whole lot, but is essential.
Since it's just GPIO on/off, you're right - it would be really easy to mock up. I'd just enable the internal pull-up on the GPIO pin and short it with ground to get your pin high/low.
I bought a couple of these a while back from a China e-bay seller for less than four bucks shipped. The ones I bought do the the 3v3 level shifting on board and can be connected directly to an Arduino digital or RPi GPIO pin.
Arduino compatible boards are generally either 5v or 3v3. Make sure you're only feeding it what it's rated for...IIRC, Arduino GPIO pins can handle the full 5V.
I bought a couple of these a while back from a China e-bay seller for less than four bucks shipped. The ones I bought do the the 3v3 level shifting on board and can be connected directly to an Arduino digital or RPi GPIO pin.
Since I'm using it on a touch screen, was thinking a cool feature would be being able to touch the tap display to view recipe details, and in the keg level "tap to pour a pint" to reduce the keg level? I saw a post about v2 containing a new MVC and all, is there a dev code base to work from if I make mods to contribute back to the project?
What do you use to look at the sql files on the raspberry pi?
I'm working on integrating it with BrewPi too so I can get some different functionality with it.\
...it looks like these sensors are a good fit for the RPi...
Cheers!
Yep mine came too. Now I'll impatiently wait for you to post the code and how to hook it up.PIRs arrived in the post today! Will be hooking on up tonight.
I got my setup working it this weekend. It was really easy and i want to say thanks to the developers who made this awesome setup. I'm working on integrating it with BrewPi too so I can get some different functionality with it.
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Really intrested in this however i am only going to be running 3 maybe 4 taps, does the user interface auto adjust its size to fill any empty space? So I don't have say 12" of tap info and 20" of black screen underneath?
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