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๐Ÿ”ฅ Hive heating

Idea is to have hive heated from the bottom to combat varroa. For winter time this may also help in case of harsh degrees

Suggested solutionโ€‹

  • Create a microservice (with AGPL license) that would run on the edge device
  • Measure temperature in close-to-realtime
    • Send data to Telemetry API at least every 10 min
    • Store data in-memory
  • Heating controll (probably same microservice, just different thread)
    • poll temperature
    • If temperature is too high - turn heating off
    • If its too low - turn heating on
  • Min/max temperature configuration
    • Allow user to set min/max heating temperature
    • Allow user to turn off heater entirely
  • Decide if Ventilation control feature would be a separate service or part of the same
    • keep hive internals at constant 32-35.5 C in case of too-warm