On: Taking over a Dead IoT Company

[sschueller]

I build something similar https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/ but with way less BOM and I keep getting asked that I should sell them. The primary reason I don't is because I don't want to support something like that for the next 10 years...

[klinquist → sschueller]

heh, same. I built a little custom sign for my airbnb. Part of my home automation system:

https://imgur.com/a/8A5IKV6

[xd1936 → klinquist]

Very cool, and well executed! Do you have build details anywhere?

[klinquist → xd1936]

I don't, but it's essentially an Adafruit LED matrix + Pi + Adafruit PiHat.

I modified the adafruit python library to read lines from Redis

then I have another script that makes the API calls, has a REST server, etc and publishes text to reds queues.