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Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by tpetry on Monday January 28, 2019 @03:09PM (#19020608)
An esp32 would enable so much cool features. Like control by bluetooth/wifi, apple homekit integration, ...
Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by sorenjan on Monday January 28, 2019 @03:48PM (#19020926)
I can't think of any reason to control my desk over the internet or via Bluetooth. If I'm not at my desk I don't care how high it is, if I'm at the desk and want to change it a button is much more convenient than using my phone.
Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by tpetry on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:12PM (#19021137)
Think about a button on your desktop to move the desk at a predefined height for standing. It‘s more easily comfigurable than the hijacked ikea bekant buttons to support more logic by different type of presses.
Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by gcormier on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:20PM (#19021189)
While I agree Wi-Fi would enable other methods of control, the megadesk is designed to do exactly what you suggested.. store and load pre-defined positions by different types of presses :)
Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by tucosan on Monday January 28, 2019 @06:36PM (#19022215)
I can think of two from the top of my head:

- Let's say you work in a shared office environment with a hot desk policy. Storing the configurations on the board will become unwieldy once more than one person stores her configuration on the board.

- I personally would love to automate my desk to move to a specific position at preset intervals. This would be mostly to force me to change positions throughout the day. I tend to forget to do that.

I'm sure people would come with all kinds of different use cases you and I can't think of right now.

Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by dbrgn on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:10AM (#19025173)
I'd prefer serial control, so I can reliably control it directly from my PC without any wireless protocols: https://github.com/gcormier/megadesk/issues/12
Re:Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk by SEJeff on Monday January 28, 2019 @03:13PM (#19020645)
My thoughts exactly! Basically anything you can do with an arduino you can do better and cheaper with esp*. It also gives you some interesting benefits (with the esp32 especially)