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IMPROVING YOUR MOTORHOME’S TECHNOLOGY, PART 5

In this part of the series, we face the second part of the software that I developed to manage the four Raspberry Pi 4 — the user interface.

As mentioned in part four (The Shed, Issue No. 101), the Raspberry Pi that manages features such as network routing still has sufficient processing power to drive a user interface.

The user-interface style adopted for the two interaction points — the driver dashboard control panel and the main control panel — has to be:

• easy to use

• lightweight

• easy to connect to hardware data

• easy to maintain

• modular.

Adhering to these requirements, I have opted to use Node.JS with

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