Hello,
I maintain an off-grid victronssystem in the wilderness. Energy is very low at times..
Want to run some lightweight node.js stuff there and keep power consumption at a minimum. Probably end up on a RPi but would be even better if it can be run on the Venus GX itself. I assume this is a bad idea but asking the ask seemed worth it.
Probably at least this:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge
Any comments?
Excellent idea! And we're working hard on it. Test images available here, scroll to the bottom: https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/issues/378
Thanks @mvader,
You guys are constantly doing cool stuff in the general direction at least I want!
So is this a good time to jump in and start testing?
I assume I should start with your test images and go from there then?
It seems they will have a version of node.js and npm in the data directory so safe for firmware upgrades?
So possibly ok to also try installing more npm plugins as in the link I gave?
I have links to Venus and Apple homekit up and running on my dev laptop but would love to move that over to the Venus GX..
hi @houser I've asked a colleague to answer these & followup questions. In the mean time, be aware that I changed your title to good idea, rather than bad idea ;o).
Hi @houser. We don't put nodejs or npm in the data directory. If you installed that homebridge stuff, you would have to re-installed after a firmware upgrade. You're configuration for homebridge would persist after and upgrade since it goes in ~/.homebridge which is in /data.
