Hello Particle Community! I hope all are well. I began with the Photon, but as my projects get more complex, I've been looking into the other options, like the Muon. This board looks very promising to add Raspberry Pi's to my projects as Edge devices. The Muon board has an Ethernet port, which I like because often where I install my machines there are no wireless signals. So, I was wondering if there is a way to feed Internet to the Raspberry Pi via the Muon, which gets its Internet from its Ethernet port. I've read some documentation that this could be done via UART, but it's not clear to me. What do you guys think?
Just out of curiosity, why don't you use a Raspberry Pi with an Ethernet port? The 4 and 5 have one.
Tethering is not supported on the M-SoM. It's also only supported on cellular, not over Ethernet. So the Muon won't work for that.
If you need some Particle cloud connectivity for the Pi, Particle for Linux will be available in the future that will add some Particle cloud functionality to regular Linux running on the Pi.
The Tachyon does not have a built-in Ethernet port, but I believe the Pimoroni PCIe Ethernet adapter has been tested and works. Others should work as well.
Not directly relevant to your question, but I've got a few write ups (1, 2) that use the cellular connection from a Particle device to interact with a process running on a Raspberry Pi over UART. Maybe they could provide some inspiration?
If the Internet could pass through the Muon (or other Particle device) and through the Raspberry Pi, then I could daisy-chain the Internet through these devices. Seemed like a good idea, than always buying more routers and switches. Thank you for your advice.