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The Danglepoise

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Re: The Danglepoise

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Post by OJFord »

draazon wrote: post #11
OJFord wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to make it clearer you are OP and describing your work, I think some people might be reading this as dismissive criticism. (Also, I don't think you can do it by edit, but next time note that you can submit both a URL and some accompanying text.)

Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-criticism!

Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German! Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I almost voted down myself too, just then thought I recognised your username and double-checked.

One other thought actually - if you can still edit the title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The Danglepoise', since then people will know the author is around for discussion. Just anecdotally I would guess Show HNs tend to have more engagement/votes on average.

Anyway, nice project :)

Re: The Danglepoise

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Post by draazon »

OJFord wrote: post #21
draazon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-criticism!

Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German! Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I almost voted down myself too, just then thought I recognised your username and double-checked. One other thought actually - if you can still edit the title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The Danglepoise', since then people will know the autho…

I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't be eligible for Show HN?

Re: The Danglepoise

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Post by blutack »

It's obviously way too late now but esphome is a very nice easy mode solution for the whole remote upload/logging/server/mqtt/iot widget thing if you don't want to drag in esp-idf. First time bootstrap is via serial/webusb and then it's all OTA.

You can write custom c++ modules for bits they don't have already, although that's pretty rare. Often used with HA but it works fine standalone with MQTT too, and deployment doesn't have to be from a server.

https://esphome.io/

Re: The Danglepoise

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Post by OJFord »

draazon wrote: post #22
OJFord wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German! Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I almost voted down myself too, just then thought I recognised your username and double-checked. One other thought actually - if you can still edit the title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The Danglepoise', since then people will know the autho…

I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't be eligible for Show HN?

True, didn't really realise that actually, just read the rules. I'm sure I've seen similar as Show HNs.. but I guess maybe they had a GitHub project or whatever that tilts the scale.
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