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| ryanb9:
Family has a 1 mile long driveway that wants to know when someone is coming down the driveway to the farm. Strait clear LOS from house to end of driveway. Going to use https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-NBE-M5-16-2-PACK-NanoBeam-airMAX/dp/B0167IWU5G to get the wifi from house to end of driveway. Going to use arduino / pi to sense the car and send a text to them to let them know someone is headed down the driveway. I'm going to build a shelter to house this stuff at end of driveway, but I need a solar panel + power bank down there. The receiver uses 12v DC, arduino or pi can run on POE from that. I'm not sure what is a good battery pack to buy and if I should get a certain type of solar panel to power that battery pack to power the 12v DC to the receiver. The weather for the region is such: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=powell+butte+oregon+annual+sunshine&s=g Maybe I'm heading down the wrong road here but that is my plan thus far. Any ideas / input would be very much welcome, even criticism would be very much welcome. |
| ryanb9:
Sorry, the receiver is 24v and pulls 0.5 A. If the arduino / pi was powered not by POE but just by 5v, I could turn off the receiver by a relay until I needed it b/c it sensed a car that turned into the driveway, and only turn it on until while it is needed to send the text message I think. I should also note that I am a programmer (got a degree in computer science) and I've only taken 2 ECE classes. All my ece projects are hacked together and my knowledge on the topic is also hacked together bits and pieces. |
| soldar:
--- Quote from: ryanb9 on November 01, 2019, 05:51:01 pm ---Going to use arduino / pi to sense the car --- End quote --- How? Why? |
| ryanb9:
--- Quote from: soldar on November 01, 2019, 06:16:10 pm --- --- Quote from: ryanb9 on November 01, 2019, 05:51:01 pm ---Going to use arduino / pi to sense the car --- End quote --- How? Why? --- End quote --- Because its easy and I know how to do it using sensors. Its not really the part I need help on. |
| ryanb9:
Should I have posted this in a different thread? Did I not post enough information, or maybe this just a boring project? I didn't really get any answers and so I think there is something I should have done differently, but no idea what that is. |
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