Hi folks,
I'm working on my first Arduino project, and while I'm very familiar with IT, I'm by no means a trained programmer.
I've got all the basics working (responding to inputs, controlling RGB LEDs, webserver, saving data to EEPROM and SPIFFS), but could use some advice on the best approach to handle data before I really dig into this project.
I've a bunch of information I need to keep track of, essentially organised as a relational database. In database terms there would be 8 separate tables of information, and I need to be able to work on records efficiently as the system runs, as well as save and load this to permanent storage, and send data to & from the system via HTTP GET & POST. The data will be read several times a day, but after initial setup, writes will be very rare (likely a few times a year).
Now I'm totally new to Arduino and JSON, but from what I've seen so far a JSON schema that is saved to or loaded from the SPIFFS storage would seem like a potential solution, and would seem that it could give me an internal data structure, can help me save to permanent storage, and can be used as an API to bring data into the system.
Can anybody advise me on whether that's a good approach, whether there are better options, and if there are any examples you can think of to show me a good way to both store this data, and handle it while the system is running?
Many thanks,
Myx