[dalanmiller]

Howdy! Author here. I can totally agree that there are definitely more simple methods to logging these sorts of things on a Raspberry Pi, most of all `your_basic_data_in_csv_format.log`.

What I think RethinkDB adds here is the WebUI interface and an easy to way to come to grips with what information is being stored on the machine versus digging around in the home directory, or project folder, or /var/log/ for the right log file (I've come to a consensus with myself many times on where I should put it and definitely forget where). Also, spinning up and replicating the data over to another machine is click-easy and convenient.

As for having the entire functionality in one Python script, it was more of wanting to have à la carte functionality since I know projects like this coming in all shapes and sizes. I definitely agree that from a simplicity point of view, one Python script would be much easier. But, I wanted people to be able to just copypasta what they wanted and go from there with multiple sensors or multiple notification messages.

I also did not like the Node dependencies (why is installing Node on RBPi still so hard?). I felt though that I couldn't get behind doing the un-Pythonic `while True:` pattern necessary for RethinkDB changefeeds. In the near future we'll have better patterns with asyncio but Node felt like a better fit from an elegance/grok-ability standpoint in this case.