Endpoints & Control
Where the readings land, live, and speak: displays, servers, the live Test Bench, and the first honest rung of control.
The Test Bench: a Live Endpoint, Free
The demonstration endpoint this site already runs: point your first build at it and watch readings land, live, before you own any endpoint at all. The zeroth rung of the ladder — nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and when you stand up your own endpoint you just change one address.
On the bench
M5Stack Core2 Farm Display Coming
A cased touchscreen that IS the endpoint: it receives readings over your network, shows them as tiles, beeps when one crosses a line, and logs the record to its own memory card. No server, no cloud, no monthly anything — the record lives on a card you can hold.
M5Stack AtomS3 One-Number Display Coming
An inch-square screen that shows one reading and holds one line: the cooler by its door, the brooder over its lamp. Green until it isn't, a beep when it crosses, and nothing else to learn — the same firmware as the big display, wearing its smallest face.
Home Assistant: the Power-User Endpoint
The open-source home-automation platform, pointed at the farm: dashboards, alerts that text you, automations that act, and history for every sensor in this book. Our Home Assistant wing — sixty-three pages deep — is the delivery content; this listing is its front door.
Raspberry Pi Endpoint Server Coming
The little computer that runs the whole back half: Home Assistant, the MQTT broker, and the record, on a board that sips power and lives on a shelf. When the heavier jobs come — a camera hub, a LoRaWAN server — it is the same shelf, working harder.
The Rule-Driven Relay Coming
The first rung of control: a threshold and a switch. Below 34 in the cold frame, the heat tape goes on; above 90 in the coop, the fan. Fail-safe defaults spelled out plainly — what the switch does when the network drops is decided by you, before it ever happens.