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Well, instead of a teensy, the esp32 is sure a good bet.
But since you've got the Pi, the next logical step is to get an rtc upgrade and run chrony/openntpd and a backup dns cache. Why not? I mean its right there on the desk. Could add a quick binary clock for practicality.
Since you might now be dependent on the thing, its easy to add snmp for monitoring, hack in some rrdtool or whatever to graph your sit/stand time, maybe a serial connection to monitor your UPS power situation, and you get a free Pi-hole by now! Probably a little overkill to run wireguard on the thing, though.
Why stop there? Have it control some functional LED lighting[0] (Zack uses an ESP32 instead of the pi--must not care about clock drift. The biometric sensor is also a little expensive and uncomfortable looking.) with suntime[1] for a perfectly and coherently illuminated environment. For the extremely paranoid, yet lazy and obsessive (who does that not describe?) you can grab an extra wifi dongle with raw monitoring mode to have some fun with trackerjacker[2]. Use an innovative static base station running map mode, so when an influx of unknown devices with increasing strength and/or known vehicle SSIDs or PAN beacons are detected, just go full Red Alert (using those very practical leds) and score a quick win by raising the desk and commanding your IoT lighting for a deft escape. Maybe you can use this for the girlfriend too, you've already got rrdtool or cacti or whatever graphing the desk height, so you could also use that capability to gain insight as to when it should reach out and trigger your coffee maker's ESP32, certainly while raising the desk.
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6n8XLmZ__I
[1] - https://github.com/SatAgro/suntime
[2] - https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker https://reconshell.com/trackerjacker-maps-and-tracks-wifi-ne...
Well, instead of a teensy, the esp32 is sure a good bet.
But since you've got the Pi, the next logical step is to get an rtc upgrade and run chrony/openntpd and a backup dns cache. Why not? I mean its right there on the desk. Could add a quick binary clock for practicality.
Since you might now be dependent on the thing, its easy to add snmp for monitoring, hack in some rrdtool or whatever to graph your sit/stand time, maybe a serial connection to monitor your UPS power situation, and you get a free Pi-hole by now! Probably a little overkill to run wireguard on the thing, though.
Why stop there? Have it control some functional LED lighting[0] (Zack uses an ESP32 instead of the pi--must not care about clock drift. The biometric sensor is also a little expensive and uncomfortable looking.) with suntime[1] for a perfectly and coherently illuminated environment. For the extremely paranoid, yet lazy and obsessive (who does that not describe?) you can grab an extra wifi dongle with raw monitoring mode to have some fun with trackerjacker[2]. Use an innovative static base station running map mode, so when an influx of unknown devices with increasing strength and/or known vehicle SSIDs or PAN beacons are detected, just go full Red Alert (using those very practical leds) and score a quick win by raising the desk and commanding your IoT lighting for a deft escape. Maybe you can use this for the girlfriend too, you've already got rrdtool or cacti or whatever graphing the desk height, so you could also use that capability to gain insight as to when it should reach out and trigger your coffee maker's ESP32, certainly while raising the desk.
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6n8XLmZ__I
[1] - https://github.com/SatAgro/suntime
[2] - https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker https://reconshell.com/trackerjacker-maps-and-tracks-wifi-ne...