DEVLOG #2 — HARDWARE ARRIVES, FIRMWARE WORK BEGINS

Finally the hardware arrived and I started work straight away…
First time diving into this deep of C++ programming… Dam it was tough fr

Website: https://spottr.brunogg.in/

Work Done

1. Set up PlatformIO in VS Code for programming the ESP32 Boards
2. Flashed badge firmware on ESP32-C3 to continuously advertise via BLE with ID SPOTTR_BADGE_0XX
3. Built scanner node firmware for ESP32-C6 to scan for BLE Devices with ID starting from SPOTTR_
4. Set up Raspberry Pi OS and installed MQTT broker
5. Improved Scanner Node range by using antennas salvaged from old WiFi routers
6. Added 30 second heartbeat from scanner to monitor online/offline status

Future Work

1. Write code for Python Pi Bridge to receive MQTT data and push to Firebase
2. Continue work on landing page of the website