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What are you using Elixir for? (lemmy.ml)
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I'm just learning for fun, but I'm curious what others are liking/not liking about Elixir for projects (big or small!).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it at work and have for the last 7 or so years. But outside of work I've used nerves for some home automation stuff, model rail, and a weather station. Nerves+live view make real time weather dashboards trivial and wonderful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do have a Nerves home weather station thing in my queue of fun projects. Seems... well, fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most obnoxious part is dealing with the oddities of your weather station. My station is a Davis station, and the protocol is fairly well documented, but it was still tedious to make work

After that I just made the app emit data over mqtt, where anything else can use the data. I've got homeassistant and the console I made listening