Being able to run Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi is one of the best news I read a few months back. I was planning on using the Pi to control lights and automate a few things in the house. Being able to program against GPIO in C# is amazing. So I started out with downloading the ISO and setting up the Pi with Windows 10. There are numerous blogs detailing the process.

The website to administer the Pi is amazing. That website should be open sourced and explained how to setup more like that. Since I will be relying on the Pi for lights, heat, other sensors in the house, I would like it to be reliable to say the least. So the first test is to let the Pi run without any other programs on it and check how long it is running without crashing. It turns out that I had to restart several times to access the Pi as it kept dropping from the network. Checked on the router for connected devices before jumping to the conclusion that Pi has crashed. Once the lights and sensors are wired to the Pi, I would want to keep the down time to a minimum and the requirement to restart the system to zero.

Windows 10 IoT on the Pi is not reliable enough to run security systems or for running extended periods. I had to switch to Raspbian and NodeJS to get a reliable system. The NodeJS site has been up and running since a week without any problems.

The actual wiring details and setup along with code to control lights in the house will follow.

 

Namaste

Nrupal