search

somakeit / smib

1 stars 0 forks source link

Query vending machine inventory #204

Open sjefferson99 opened 1 month ago

sjefferson99 commented 1 month ago

Assuming vendie can output current contents over MDB and makes that available on the API. Have a smib command to query current vending machine contents. Good for someone planning restocking away from the space. Could also trigger inventory low messages to appropriate slack channel.

sam57719 commented 1 month ago

Don't think our vmc controller is that fancy

sjefferson99 commented 1 month ago

Buy new controller... or install camera that uses overly complex AI to work out how many of what there is,

sam57719 commented 1 month ago

Could write own controller software and hardware using raspberry pi? Would be interesting project. And then wouldn't need to use the shitty MDB thing.

sjefferson99 commented 1 month ago

We don't want to replace anything off the shelf for actual vending, as then people would call us when chocolate fails to vend and there's no way I am the person between people and chocolate. But perhaps we can improve it somehow, one for the far future probably.