Last Updated on October 22, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
– We started our projects, and where first attracted by Matlab
– The advantages of Matlab are that it is well documented and has a support forum
– But again and again, we found opinions of experienced coders who wrote that Matlab is not worth it to buy, Python can do anything which Matlab can do
– Fur us, the Matlab support forum was an advantage
– Then Matlab supporter Adam Danz deleted all our Matlab questions out of the Matlab forum
with the comment «clearly a spammer»
– we are not interested in soft- and hardware developement, the Meditation Reserach Institute MRIS
is a private and non-commercial project on the level of a Swiss research institute, as it is published on our site
– Everybody is allowed to ask questions in the Matlab community, no Matlab licence is required for this
– Whe where shocked, and deeply hurt about this deletion
– We are still convinced that we will win this case agains Matlab supporter Adam Danz:
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/profile/authors/25613423
– but it is time consuming and not worth it to this date.
– Then, questions about post deletion where deleted from the Matlab forum, another shock
– What is the motivation of this post deletion? Is it to reach a high Matlab score?
– The value of Matlab tropped for us dramatilly by this deletion acts
– Then, we found out, that a Matlab Home licence for about 200 USD cannot be used to publish data, a Matlab Standard Edition for arount 1000 USD is required for this
– With Matlab Standard, one can do only basic things, additional Matlab Toolboxes are required, which costs around 1000 USD each Toolbox as well
– Matlab is a bit better documented thant Python. But is it worth it to spend so much more for Matlab than for Python?
– Some physiological sensors like Apple watches, Fitbit devices, and Garmin watches over Strava can already be attached to Home Assistant
– Home Assistant is easier for mobile applications than Matlab
– What about attaching sensors directly to InfluxDB, and use Python only, without HA?
– There are many examples for InfluxDB, but most of them are difficult to understand
– There are more examples for Home Assistant
– Home Assistant is the second most active Python application
– Home Assistant is well documented
– for beginners probably easier than InfluxDB
– An alternative is the Python Client for InfuxDB
– There are examples available, how to read out temperature from a sensor every minute:
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python#efficiency-write-data-from-iot-sensor
– Whether to use Matlab, Python, or InfluxDB? There is no general answer, we have to decide it case by case