I am building a distributed smart control system for my sail boat using 6 m5Dials one in each cabin. They show all important boat data such as depth and wind speed and heading from an MQTT server running on a raspberry pi the also show alerts and allow control of local lighting.
I am having a lot of problems with UI Flow 2.
All I have working so far is lighting with dimming using the dial and night lighting (RED lights) working.
I need to get RFID working to login crew/family members so the m5Dials alerts them to their watches - I get an error when I put in any RFID blocks except "RFI init built in" I have an "if" in my main loop that calls a function if a new card or RFID phone is detected the function currently only reads the card ID converts it to a string and shows it on a label
My other problem is connecting into the MTTQ server this currently always hangs the device and I need to power cycle it to get any responses
I have MQTT code working on my m5 coreInk in uiFlow 1 which I am using for remote anchor control
I have plans to open source the project and I think it will be very useful for other sailers
I also want to do some YouTube system build videos but they will only currently show it not working!
I think I am expecting too much from alpha software.
Any suggestions or advice are welcome.