Buying advice

NETMF & Gadgeteer
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I own a Fez Hydra board which currently appears to be “dead”. Windows 10 detects it, and displays it as the Fez Hydra, but trying to reset or use Fez Config does not work at all. I’ve tried following most of the suggestions, but none work. I’m either not doing it right, or there’s an issue with Windows 10, or my Fez Hydra is simply faulty.

What I want to do is twofold:

  • Send readings from moisture sensor + light + temperature to Azure Event Hub
  • Control two valves and a pump (bought at seeedstudio) to water the damned plants

Question 1:
Can I do this from VS2013 or VS2015 now? 2012 is old, and gone.

Question 2:
Which board should I get for the job, and what type of peripherals would I need? Assume that I am starting from scratch, and have no idea about electronics. I do however, know how to code in C#.

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Update: Hydra is up and running again - I had misunderstood where pins 8 and 10 were :slight_smile: Is there anything I can connect to the Hydra so that I can speak to the web or the connected computer?

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https://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/333

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Depends on how you are planning to connect to the Azure Event Hub. If you were thinking of using AMQP like the ConnectTheDots demo (we came up with this from the IoT Code Camp we ran Sunday in Calgary http://scruffyfurn.com/iotcamp/ as a good setup of the project), then its not going to work as AMQP requires a HTTPS connection which the Hydra can’t do (some folks here might have a way to add it). Now you could connect to Mobile Services with a Hydra say using my how to use Azure Mobile Services with Gadgeteer

So once you have the approach then we can suggest the modules as the approach sort of dictates the mainboard.

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