Re: Arduino SQL Connector

Not a thing in that document about the Arduino. Just how to install
Postgres on a Raspberry Pi. My Postgres is on a hosted server at a ISP.

Steve Spence, KK4HFJ
Director, Green Trust
http://www.green-trust.org
Http://arduinotronics.blogspot.com

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Robin <robinstc(at)live(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

> I have bottom posted
>
> On 18/04/2014 14:20, Steve Spence wrote:
>
> And that is the way I used to do it, before the Arduino MySQL connector
> came out. It was nice not to have to go though the double stepping any
> more. Hence my interest in a Arduino PostgreSQL Connector.
>
> Here is how it works today. slim and clean -
> http://www.green-trust.org/lmanco/find.php
>
> Steve Spence, KK4HFJ
> Director, Green Trust
> http://www.green-trust.org
> Http://arduinotronics.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:15 AM, David Rysdam <drysdam(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>> Steve Spence <greentrust(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > It's actually quite freeing, not complicating. I can put the values
>> > right into the fields I need them to be in (or get values from the
>> > database I need to control the Arduino), without going through a
>> > intermediate process. If you have a serial process I can look at that
>> > works with 1000 or more remote sensors all over the world to a hosted
>> > database server, I'd love to look at it. Right now what I have works,
>> > but I have no GIS functionality.
>>
>> I'm not going to claim this is a great design, but it's at least an
>> order of magnitude easier than your proposal:
>>
>> Set up the simplest web server that will run PHP. Program the Arduinos
>> to submit POST requests to it (which is just networking you say you can
>> already handle), by which they submit their SQL strings. Write a PHP
>> script that passes those to PostgreSQL.
>>
>> The webserver should be able to handle at least as much as what you were
>> going to throw at the DB server, so there's no load problem.
>>
>
> Here is a workable solution to using Arduino with PostgreSQL -
> http://wildraspy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-pi-as-postgresql-database-server.html
>
> If you are controlling lots of devices around the world, you should
> probably be clustering anyway.
>
> Robin St.Clair
>