yep I figured a similar solution ,to create a wifi AP-mode*(bridge)* on the raspberry PI and power the unit via USB. That way it would be directly connected to the network.
We use other environmental sensors to monitor our server rooms and outside temp/hum etc. We are using mostly SNMP feeding the values into InfluxDB->Grafana then display it on our webpage. That is why we would like to keep a similar approach.
Comes to my mind. If I’d connect via USB how to exactly access the data over USB ? I have not caught it in the documentation yet. Could you give me a direction where to read about it in the documentation ?
Thank you , much appreciated.
EDIT: or power it via PoE. TP-Link has active PoE Splitter (TL-POE10R) 48V to 12V/9V/5V-2A … output is a DC jack. I would make a custom cable to just power the unit or solder the + - straight to the board.
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