Last Updated on June 7, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
OpenBCI seems to invest more developement time in the new OpenBCI Galea device, than in a new WIFI shield, which is issue free and great for MQTT applications.
But is the Galea OpenBCI s Equivital, which had to be limited in warranty time to only three month, as far as we know, since packing in so many sensors into one device makes the device to break easily.
We are promoting the idea not to pack too many sensors into one device, but to have seperate sensors with MQTT support, which can be connected to Home Assistant.
A new issue-free WIFI shield from OpenBCI with MQTT support would be more helpful to us than the new and revolutionary GALEA, with childhood illnesses and a concept, which reminds us to the Adinstruments Equivital. The GALEA cannot replace an issue-free WIFI shield, which will have a bright future because of MQTT.
These days, more and more lightbulbs have MQTT support, why don’t physiological sensors have MQTT support by default?
MQTT conrolled Ikea lightbulb:
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/LED1623G12.html
The Ikea MQTT lightbulb also had an issue:
https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/5237
But the issue has been closed. Ikea seems to be more successful in the field of low-cost high quality products than OpenBCI.
If an issue free new WIFi shield is available from the OpenBCI store, this would be as far as we know the first low-cost high quality EEG option which supports MQTT, a good reason to test it, and if the tests are successful, a reason to change to a system which is completely based on MQTT and Home Assistant for EEG and sports sensor data acquisition.
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