# Beehive Monitor
**URL:** https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463
**Category:** 🇬🇧 RuuviLab (article comments)
**Created:** [29 June 2017 09:44 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463 "2017-06-29T09:44:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 15:06 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/41 "2019-02-20T15:06:26Z")
Using lat and lon is second nature to salty old navigators.
These new fangled geegaws will all stop working when Trump pulls the switch on satnav and my old sextant will be back in fashion.
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 15:08 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/42 "2019-02-20T15:08:13Z")
Ok like the sound of the Nova but can only find Digikey at US69 who sells it.
Hologram say out of stock WTF?
The Huawei E303 unlocked on that auction site for less than £20.
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 18:06 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/43 "2019-02-20T18:06:16Z")
How diffcult would it be to add a micrphone to the ruuvitag?
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### Author:  [@NoHalfBits](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/NoHalfBits)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 20:18 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/44 "2019-02-20T20:18:24Z")
> [@Motobiman](#):
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> Somewhere I read the collector and the influxdb and grafana can be run in different locations so my thought was save power by running just the collecter on the Rpi at the apiary and the rest on tbe Mac or PC or whetever in my office.
influx can ingest data via http requests, and ruvvi-collector does just that. Having the influxDB running on the same host is just the default, but can be changed with the `influxUrl` setting in the `ruuvi-collector.properties` file (the README.md has the details).
To my understanding of the situation, it would actually make little to no sense to have the influx database on the machine in the field. To access the data you would have to connect to the rPI via the cell network, which you probably can’t - at least to my knowledge (please correct me if I’m wrong) mobile devices in a cell network are behind a carrier NAT, so connections to them can’t be initiated from the outside. So unless you do something complicated like a VPN tunnel initiated by the rPI, the collected data would be out of reach.
So the goal for the rPI should probably be to just act as a gateway: Collect the BLE advertisements from the ruvvi tags and push them out to somewhere where they are conveniently accessible, with as little effort as possible, given the energy constraints.
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 20:43 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/45 "2019-02-20T20:43:30Z")
> [@NoHalfBits](#):
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> So the goal for the rPI should probably be to just act as a gateway: Collect the BLE advertisements from the ruvvi tags and push them out to somewhere where they are conveniently accessible, with as little effort as possible, given the energy constraints.
Yep that was my understanding too.
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### Author:  [@dgerman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/dgerman)
#### Post date: [20 February 2019 23:38 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/46 "2019-02-20T23:38:00Z")
My son has had success with this [https://www.adafruit.com/product/390](https://www.adafruit.com/product/390)
USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger
Together with [https://www.adafruit.com/product/3428](https://www.adafruit.com/product/3428)
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### Author:  [@dgerman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/dgerman)
#### Post date: [21 February 2019 01:58 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/47 "2019-02-21T01:58:33Z")
With field deployed tags, best to have Rpi collect data to influxdb. Not realistic to forward data out. Some software in the ruuvi tags transmit multiple packets PER SECOND! Some once per second \* 6 tags!
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [21 February 2019 07:32 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/48 "2019-02-21T07:32:08Z")
Ok your call 🙂
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [21 February 2019 07:37 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/50 "2019-02-21T07:37:17Z")
Like the look of the charging device.
With the 3.3v thingy, will that be a likely issue if fhe Rpi is off more than its on?
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### Author:  [@dgerman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/dgerman)
#### Post date: [21 February 2019 12:35 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/51 "2019-02-21T12:35:59Z")
### [masneyb/weather-station](https://github.com/masneyb/weather-station):
Good stuff.
SolarPanel 9.0 Watt $78.95!
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [22 February 2019 08:22 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/52 "2019-02-22T08:22:33Z")
Good stuff here too.
> **[The Complete List Of Wireless IoT Network Protocols](https://www.link-labs.com/blog/complete-list-iot-network-protocols)**
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> IoT network protocols to meet the needs of your application. Consider these 26 IoT Network Protocols when choosing what is right for your application.
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [23 February 2019 12:04 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/53 "2019-02-23T12:04:04Z")
Did you see this link in another post?
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### Author:  [@dgerman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/dgerman)
#### Post date: [20 April 2019 11:48 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/54 "2019-04-20T11:48:55Z")
Is this of interest?
> **[The Hiveeyes Project](https://hiveeyes.org/)**
>
> The Hiveeyes Project is developing a flexible beehive monitoring infrastructure platform and toolkit based on affordable hardware, wireless telemetry and modern software. Open source, open hardware and a friendly community.
flexible beehive monitoring infrastructure toolkit and platform based on affordable hardware, wireless telemetry and modern software.
Open source, open hardware and a friendly community.
> **[Grafana durchsuchen mit "grafana-wtf"](https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/grafana-durchsuchen-mit-grafana-wtf/1825)**
>
> Einleitung Für edukative Nachforschungs- und Umstrukturierungsarbeiten wünscht man sich manchmal die Möglichkeit, Grafana komfortabler durchsuchen zu können, als es das Benutzerinterface derzeit hergibt. Das klappt ganz passabel mit dem...
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### Author:  [@Motobiman](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Motobiman)
#### Post date: [20 April 2019 21:11 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/55 "2019-04-20T21:11:52Z")
Interesting.
Maybe a few steps more than I was considering for my needs and if I could get the ‘alerts’ working in chronograf and then a single camera aimed at the apiary and later a sensitive mic in each hive I would be happy.
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