Hello All,
I have been working on the project for creating a home automation. I am using arduino along with sensors. My arduino will be integrated with NRF24L01 for communication. Now I am planning to use raspberry as gateway and this gateway will also host a light wight application required for home automation.
I have worked on arduino and NRF24L01+ but have no idea about raspberry. I found at some places that raspberry pi has problems with SD card corruption and this leads to issues on day to day basis. Does anyone have any idea about performance of raspberry pi along with arduino.
Or should i use beaglebone in place of raspberry pi.
Please suggest.
Th Raspberry Pi works fine on a day by day basis, if I read the comments on raspberrypi.org forum.
It is a Linux operating system, so shutting down is preferred instead of switching off.
Some UPS power supply (a LiPo powerbank for example) may save the day in case of mains power failure.
SD corruption i reported by some, others never see a problem. But SD cards wear out after many many writes, its not as reliable as a hard disk (which fails also some day !). Prepare to have a backup and replace it after a couple of months.
Ofcourse the Pi is a very very small and cheap system, and not designed for 24x7. But with the right care, robust software design and maintenance it will come a long way.
When you isolate hardware dependencies, porting to amore powerful and robust Linux system is always possible.
Thank you very much for the valuable suggestions. I am going to get my raspberry in couple of days along with a small UPS to take care of power failure issues. I will post back my experience on this forum in sometime.
Here is a possible idea for UPS/automated shutdown for the Raspberry Pi: https://lowpowerlab.com/shop/index.php?_route_=mightyboost. There is also information on that site for home automation with Raspberry Pi/Arduino. The Moteino is an interesting product, also.