groundcontrol
Infrastructure
system monitoring daemon
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy setup and low resource usage
From 2 comments
Already tried using it, setup was a breeze, and already reporting to my Librato metrics. Nice job
omerh on HNVery cool! Looking forward to trying it out. My current solution had been a dead-simple crontab script that pushed some stats to a static html page every hour. It's ugly and a…
Osmium on HN
Useful for IoT and remote Pi management
From 2 comments
Very cool! There are a wide range of applications for embedding devices like the RPi going places where they are installed and forgotten, often in very inaccessible places.…
outside1234 on HNI'll build 'Major Tom', a mobile app making use of this
danieldrehmer on HN
Objections
Not specific to Raspberry Pi
From 2 comments
How is this specific to Raspberry Pi in any way?
ambrop7 on HNThis is a great little program, but I'm curious why you're marketing it only for the Raspberry Pi? A low-memory system monitoring script could be useful in many other areas, and…
manacit on HN
Questions whether a monitoring daemon is useful on a Pi
From 1 comment
I’m all in for using Go and having fun, but is there an actual point in this daemon? I thought the Raspberry Pi is about making life easier and not about adding one more device…
secure on HN
Variable naming hurts readability
From 1 comment
Nice but I wish people wouldn't use names like "w", "tuple" or "string" for variables. Tuple of what? The analysis that is needed for the reader to figure that out, however…
natch on HN
Does not run on FreeBSD Raspberry Pi out of the box
From 1 comment
Just to save some time for FreeBSDers, this does not run on Raspberry Pi's with FreeBSD out of the box: ELF binary type "0" not known (and branding it does not help - it needs…
fegu on HN
Requests
Support statsd and graphite
From 1 comment
This looks awesome! How easy would it be to add support for statsd[1] / graphite[2]? [1] https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ [2] http://graphite.wikidot.com/
jameswyse on HN
Make it go-gettable
From 1 comment
Sweet! But make it go-gettable, dammit. :-) [1] Also, is there anything I could read that would explain how I'd hook up my RPi to my sprinkler system? Thanks! [1] -…
burntsushi on HN
Questions
Why the GOARM=5 build flag on an ARMv6 device
From 1 comment
Isn't the rpi an armv6 device? Why the GOARM=5 build flag?
0x0 on HN
Why target only the Raspberry Pi
From 1 comment
This is a great little program, but I'm curious why you're marketing it only for the Raspberry Pi? A low-memory system monitoring script could be useful in many other areas, and…
manacit on HN
Alternatives named
Crontab script pushing stats to a static page
From 1 comment
Very cool! Looking forward to trying it out. My current solution had been a dead-simple crontab script that pushed some stats to a static html page every hour. It's ugly and a…
Osmium on HN
RaspCTL (Python web interface)
From 1 comment
Hey, I have a project similar to groundcontrol but un Python, is called RaspCTL[1][2]. You add/execute commands thru a web interface, radio support (using mpd), can manage the…
krenel on HN
Nitrogen (Node.js IoT project)
From 1 comment
Very cool! There are a wide range of applications for embedding devices like the RPi going places where they are installed and forgotten, often in very inaccessible places.…
outside1234 on HN
OpenSprinkler
From 1 comment
Didn't see your question. opensprinkler.com seems like a verygood solution. I found it after starting working on my project so I bought a sainsmart 5v relay controller. Doing it…
pothibo on HN