I’ve started upgrading all the Raspberry PIs in the house to Pi4. The Electron connected Pi was the first. This time around I soldered the Electron to a GPIO Proto board hat to make changing the hardware easier in the future. I also added this nice case and a fan inside. Unfortunately, I tried to run the Pi on POE but that caused issues with the GPIO pins that I couldn’t figure out.
A friend and coworker started to get into Ardunio once I showed him the Particle line of devices. He had the SoC on a Breadboard with wires going from the pins to the temperature sensor. I found these ProtoBoards for a few dollars each and offered to solder them.
One example is if the house loses Internet (the Pi can’t ping a webpage), I get a notification on my cell phone. Another reason is if the house loses power, (the Pi turns off), the Electron sends another notification since it’s on a battery backup.
This Pi also has a USB modem attached to it, and using NCID, I’m able to receive a notification of who is calling my house phone on my cell phone.
