groundcontrol

Infrastructure

system monitoring daemon

SHOW HN2013

105points
38comments
#218of 1,739 in 2013
Top 13%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.

Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Easy setup and low resource usage

    From 2 comments
    • Already tried using it, setup was a breeze, and already reporting to my Librato metrics. Nice job
      omerh on HN
    • Very cool! Looking forward to trying it out. My current solution had been a dead-simple crontab script that pushed some stats to a static html page every hour. It's ugly and a…
      Osmium on HN
  • Useful for IoT and remote Pi management

    From 2 comments
    • Very cool! There are a wide range of applications for embedding devices like the RPi going places where they are installed and forgotten, often in very inaccessible places.…
      outside1234 on HN
    • I'll build 'Major Tom', a mobile app making use of this
      danieldrehmer on HN

Objections

  • Not specific to Raspberry Pi

    From 2 comments
    • How is this specific to Raspberry Pi in any way?
      ambrop7 on HN
    • This is a great little program, but I'm curious why you're marketing it only for the Raspberry Pi? A low-memory system monitoring script could be useful in many other areas, and…
      manacit on HN
  • Questions whether a monitoring daemon is useful on a Pi

    From 1 comment
    • I’m all in for using Go and having fun, but is there an actual point in this daemon? I thought the Raspberry Pi is about making life easier and not about adding one more device…
      secure on HN
  • Variable naming hurts readability

    From 1 comment
    • Nice but I wish people wouldn't use names like "w", "tuple" or "string" for variables. Tuple of what? The analysis that is needed for the reader to figure that out, however…
      natch on HN
  • Does not run on FreeBSD Raspberry Pi out of the box

    From 1 comment
    • Just to save some time for FreeBSDers, this does not run on Raspberry Pi's with FreeBSD out of the box: ELF binary type "0" not known (and branding it does not help - it needs…
      fegu on HN

Requests

  • Support statsd and graphite

    From 1 comment
    • This looks awesome! How easy would it be to add support for statsd[1] / graphite[2]? [1] https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ [2] http://graphite.wikidot.com/
      jameswyse on HN
  • Make it go-gettable

    From 1 comment
    • Sweet! But make it go-gettable, dammit. :-) [1] Also, is there anything I could read that would explain how I'd hook up my RPi to my sprinkler system? Thanks! [1] -…
      burntsushi on HN

Questions

  • Why the GOARM=5 build flag on an ARMv6 device

    From 1 comment
    • Isn't the rpi an armv6 device? Why the GOARM=5 build flag?
      0x0 on HN
  • Why target only the Raspberry Pi

    From 1 comment
    • This is a great little program, but I'm curious why you're marketing it only for the Raspberry Pi? A low-memory system monitoring script could be useful in many other areas, and…
      manacit on HN

Alternatives named

  • Crontab script pushing stats to a static page

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! Looking forward to trying it out. My current solution had been a dead-simple crontab script that pushed some stats to a static html page every hour. It's ugly and a…
      Osmium on HN
  • RaspCTL (Python web interface)

    From 1 comment
    • Hey, I have a project similar to groundcontrol but un Python, is called RaspCTL[1][2]. You add/execute commands thru a web interface, radio support (using mpd), can manage the…
      krenel on HN
  • Nitrogen (Node.js IoT project)

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool! There are a wide range of applications for embedding devices like the RPi going places where they are installed and forgotten, often in very inaccessible places.…
      outside1234 on HN
  • OpenSprinkler

    From 1 comment
    • Didn't see your question. opensprinkler.com seems like a verygood solution. I found it after starting working on my project so I bought a sainsmart 5v relay controller. Doing it…
      pothibo on HN

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