Raspberry Pi Zero W, Good Enough for Small Deployment?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@morph166955

I’m considering using a few Zero Ws to act as remote bluetooth sensors across the house. Basically have them running the bluetooth binding and sending reports back to the main OH2 server through the API.

Look at reelyActive which was created exactly for this use case. FIND is also a good option which uses WiFi triangulation.

I would not deploy OH instances around the house to solve this problem.

I did go forward with this and have been running for over a year. But pay attention to the use case. I’m running this RPi over 100 miles away to keep an eye on my dad. Running a separate OH instance makes a lot of sense because something that inaccessible needs to stand on it’s own. I also wanted the opportunity to add more smart home features over time.