My most immediate thought is to high-pass filter the loadcell data to look for spikes… unfortunately, the problem was not spikes but drift. For example, I could reset the loadcell to zero in the morning and by the end of the day it might read 6 to 8 g. Not a big deal but a lot in relationship to a ...

… You could further keep it in sync by having a micro switch that gets pushed when the door opens when mail is retrieved (and operate under the assumption that door open = all mail gone). … Good idea. but, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, in France the post office has a key to the mailbox and u...

I agree that a visual solution would probably be the most foolproof because of all of the options there are for detection (color, corners, calculate difference from empty image, etc). For the drift issue... I have been using the scale for a year+ now, and it is manageable. My first attempt was load...

I would like to detect the presence of mail in a mailbox. In this particular case, the mailbox is a standard French mailbox (boite aux lettres), approximately 30cm h x 30cm w x 41cm d (image below). This is a fairly large space and a letter or package could land anywhere on the 30x41 floor area, or ...

A small request, but oh so useful...

In the "Phidget Control Panel" Phidgets tab, please add the ability to collapse all open servers. On MacOS this would be an Option-click on any open server. I assume there is a similar standard on other platforms.

Thanks

As usual, thanks Patrick!

Oh well. In any case I ordered my first sbc4 this week. The sbc3 still works fine, though the Phidget22 network server does load it down a bit. Had I loaded Python on it while either 2.7 or 3.2 were current I would probably be fine. Just didn’t need it then.

Is it possible (i.e. will the SBC continue to function with the Phidget22 libs and Web interface) to upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie)? Why? Because after 2 days of trying I am still unable to install, and successfully use, pip on the SBC3. I can install a variety of Pythons from 2.6 to 3.2. But, every a...

Thanks.

Is there an update in this thread… what is the current shipping version of Debian on the SBC4?