Adjusting sleep durations to be milliseconds. Needed for FCC 15b testing.

[ryanrolds]

As part of unintentional radiator testing, I needed to reduce the loop so that the device is constantly sending data. These changes increase the resolution of the BLE advertizment and loop sleeps allowing me to create a build with a 20ms sleep.

I plan on sending the devices to the lab next week. First time going through this process, if I'm doing a dumb please speak up.

[rbaron]

@ryanrolds out of curiosity, what are your plans by getting it certified?

[ryanrolds]

In the shorter-term, there is a thread about people wanting to buy sensors. I intend to fill that need in the next month or two (after the lab test) using a Shopify site.

Over the last few years I've been building a "smart" plant care system. Initially it was using MiFloras, but a year or so ago I added support for your b-parasite device. The plan is to start a beta with 15 to 20 households by the end of the year. After the beta we will start selling the kits (containing the b-parasite) on the Shopify site. The system is intended for busy professionals and because the system is run in the cloud (not a on smartphone app) and notifies people via email/text/etc... a small monthly subscription is collected for cloud costs and improving the "smartness".

I'm happy to factor any of your concerns or needs (including a royalty) into the plan. If you want to see the business plan, I'm happy to get that to you when it's more fleshed out.

[rbaron]

The MIT & CC-BY-SA licenses do allow for commercial use, observing attribution. While my personal motivation is building an open source community and getting more people into hacking their own homes, I am happy to see members selling some surplus from orders to other members. Ideally at cost, as I understand there's a steep first step in getting these boards. Though I do feel somewhat disheartened by the idea that someone else would try to profit from the project by selling large quantities of it. As you can see, I put some effort into developing and supporting community members in my free time. I think you will agree that it wouldn't be sustainable to keep doing that for other companies' customers.

[ryanrolds]

I would like to address your concerns and I don't want to put any additional burden on you or the community.

I'm going to be away from cell service until tomorrow afternoon. Do you want to setup some time to chat next week?