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by tnjm 1879 days ago
This looks lovely, but I wonder about the reliability for anything that touches living things.

I set up an Arduino-based programmable logic controller to manage the fogging and primary heating circuits for our commercial greenhouse, with a separate Node.js-based server component that handles only Arduino configuration changes, logging and alerting and it works beautifully. The idea of having a full Linux machine (especially in a RPi form factor) running the process control functions would be a bit scary.

Still, the capabilities here seem so far beyond what you could do with a single PLC that it's very impressive and I can definitely imagine using it for something non-critical, or with multiple hardware backup systems.