IMPROVING YOUR MOTORHOME’S TECHNOLOGY PART 4
The magic
Before working on some new components to improve the camper van, it’s time to take a look at the magic that keeps alive the hardware I presented in the first three instalments of this series.
In this fourth episode of “Enrico on the road”, we forget the tools on the bench and dive into the Linux world.
The bare sources are available on GitHub: https://github.com/alicemirror/JanTheVan — explaining the logic and principles behind the internal network. In the next episode we will complete the software components, including the control panel interface.
The software architecture
The core of the camper van electronics focuses on four Raspberry Pi 4Bs; the software development has been in the Raspbian Linux environment — the Debian version of Linux specific for the Raspberry Pi.
“To achieve a good result, I spent a lot of time refining the design and the interaction approach”
The software architecture follows two different workflows:
Internal: Components and applications require a little programming. These components achieve network stability and the connection between the four devices. These also include the hardware — e.g. cameras — directly controlled by the
