App & device help

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  • mantrakid0

    Yeah the big questions mostly come down to:

    - What does the app run on (iOS? Android? MacOS, etc)
    - What 'device' runs the sensors?

    Essentially if you are sending data, then you need some sort of firmware or operating system on the thing that the sensors are connected to that both collects the data from the sensors and sends it to the (phone, computer, etc). How it collects data and how it sends the data is basically a software development job.

    If you used like a Raspberry Pi, your operating system is handled there (Linux), and now you're coding an application in an executable language on the Raspberry Pi that collects the data from the sensors, so now you need libraries in linux that can successfully receive data from however the data is being sent to it.

    Once you have a system getting the sensor data, you then need to build on the software side of it in any infinite number of ways to get the data to something else. That can either be giving access to the data on the device by a wireless, usb, bluetooth, etc type connection, in which case you would need libraries for that type of connection and code for the device to be able to give its data, then you'd need to code another application on the receiving end (iPhone, Android Phone, Playstation 7) that tells it what to do to receive the data and how to display / interface with it once it gets it

    Hope im not too far off on most of this. I haven't done anything like this really but have worked with a lot of systems and software development intended to be the 'end result' of many thousands of man hours of programming work to get the system / data communication in place.

    • amazing thanks man!Claymantis
    • Can't tell you about the device right now but it would probably be iOS for now.Claymantis

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