Hello everyone - I'm back - for more advice...
With the price of EVERYTHING going up - the Board of Directors here at the Kamloops Shotgun Sports Club ( a non-profit society ) decided it was prudent to implement cost cutting measures using technologies to accomplish this.
Attached you will find a PDF that attempts to explain "The Issue" and "Proposed Solution" to cut costs.
Me, being of the adventurous type, feel it quite doable utilizing low cost components, programming skills and a desire to fill in my spare time with a worthy project.
Yes, there are commercial products - designed for this purpose - that cost many thousands of dollars (more than actual input costs) and have limited functionality and scope.
Small clubs, such as ours and 90 percent of others cannot justify the (years) long ROI (capital costs).
The Question:
Since I am well versed in the B4X (B4A, B4J) platform - and would NEVER dev in anything else for such purposes - but NOT in the B4R segment.
I am one of the biggest (loud mouth), long time supporters of B4X - but here I need help and reassurance.
SHOULD I devote my time / effort and attempt to develop here? Are enough users supporting all the libs / fast paced progress and technics with ESP32 versions?
I have researched Sketch, PLATFORMIO ( extension to VS Code ) and the like, that seem to be dedicated to embedded - and ESP32 a major part of their efforts.
These others systems seem so very seamless - with all the support.
Your feedback / experience shall be most appreciated.
Thx
Harris
With the price of EVERYTHING going up - the Board of Directors here at the Kamloops Shotgun Sports Club ( a non-profit society ) decided it was prudent to implement cost cutting measures using technologies to accomplish this.
Attached you will find a PDF that attempts to explain "The Issue" and "Proposed Solution" to cut costs.
Me, being of the adventurous type, feel it quite doable utilizing low cost components, programming skills and a desire to fill in my spare time with a worthy project.
Yes, there are commercial products - designed for this purpose - that cost many thousands of dollars (more than actual input costs) and have limited functionality and scope.
Small clubs, such as ours and 90 percent of others cannot justify the (years) long ROI (capital costs).
The Question:
Since I am well versed in the B4X (B4A, B4J) platform - and would NEVER dev in anything else for such purposes - but NOT in the B4R segment.
I am one of the biggest (loud mouth), long time supporters of B4X - but here I need help and reassurance.
SHOULD I devote my time / effort and attempt to develop here? Are enough users supporting all the libs / fast paced progress and technics with ESP32 versions?
I have researched Sketch, PLATFORMIO ( extension to VS Code ) and the like, that seem to be dedicated to embedded - and ESP32 a major part of their efforts.
These others systems seem so very seamless - with all the support.
Your feedback / experience shall be most appreciated.
Thx
Harris
