A Raspberry Pi on a Patchy Connection: Readings Wait in a ukue File Until the Internet Is Back

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Think of a market garden with three greenhouses, each with temperature, humidity and soil sensors wired to a Raspberry Pi. Every minute the Pi reads the sensors and sends the numbers to a dashboard in the cloud, where the grower checks them on a phone and gets an alert if a greenhouse overheats. The internet comes from a 4G router on a pole, and it drops out: a few minutes in bad weather, half a day when the mast is down. A script that simply posts each reading loses every minute the connection is gone.

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A Raspberry Pi on a Patchy Connection: Readings Wait in a ukue File Until the Internet Is Back