My DIY Home Assistant Garden Automation System - Climate Control, Dosing & More. Pt.2: Functionality
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2020
- A demo of the nutrient jar stirring, voice control, and user interface of the DIY garden automation system I've been slowly building over the past year or so. Currently, the system is managing climate control, pH and nutrient dosing, fertigation schedule, light cycle, and has flood detection capability. It's a work in progress and I'll be sharing more about it as I go.
I'd be happy to hear any comments, questions, or suggestions you might have, and would like to know what you’ve got going on if you're doing something similar.
Part 1 here: • My DIY Home Assistant ...
Forum: ledgardener.com/forum
Tip Jar: paypal.me/supportledg
System diagram, parts list, all code: github.com/ledgardener/garden...
PARTS LIST: (I'm currently unemployed so you bet your sweet ass these are Affiliate links):
**CONTROL BOX**
BUD Industries NBF-32026 Plastic ABS NEMA Economy Box with Solid Door, 15-47/64" Length x 11-51/64" Width x 6-9/32" Height, Light Gray Finish:
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Plastic Internal Panel to Mount Gear:
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Panel-Mount AC Connector for Box:
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Nylon Standoffs:
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Cable Glands for Passing Cable In and Out of Control box:
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** CONTROL BOX MISC ELECTRONICS **
Amazon Fire Touch Panel Tablet:
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Right-angle Micro USB Cable for Tablet:
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Mean Well 12VDC Power Supply:
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Drok Voltage Stepdown Converter with Readout:
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Dupont Cables:
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Breadboards:
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Screw Terminal Blocks:
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8 Channel Relay Board:
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** DEVELOPMENT BOARDS (CONTROLLERS) **
Raspberry Pi kit for Home Assistant that I started with:
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You can also use other hardware, check out this page for a good writeup:
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Arduino Mega:
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ESP32S WiFi Development Board (Handles WiFi communication between control box and Home Assistant server as well as from inside tent to Home Assistant server):
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Whitebox Labs Tentacle Shield to Add Atlas Scientific Gear to an Arduino and provide electrical isolation of probes (pH probe needs to be isolated from EC probe):
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** SENSORS **
BME280 Temperature/Humidity/Pressure Sensors for Tent and Control Box:
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Waterproof Temperature Sensor for Nute Reservoir:
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Atlas Scientific Conductivity Kit K 1.0 5-200,000 μS/cm:
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Atlas Scientific pH Kit 0-14 pH:
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Moisture Sensors:
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Catch Basin Float Sensor:
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** PUMPS AND SOLENOIDS **
Peristaltic Pumps:
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Motor Drivers to Control Peristaltic Pump Speed:
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Tubing for Peristaltic Pumps:
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Nutrient Res Stirring Pump:
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Nutrient Fertigation Pump:
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Normally-Open 12V Solenoid (Allows water to flow into system until solenoid is activated, which closes it - used for flood protection. Requires 12VDC power supply and 1/4" spade connectors):
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1/4" Spade Connectors:
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Normally-Closed 12V Solenoid (Restricts water between RO res and Nute Res, requires pump in RO res to push water through it):
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Pump to push water through solenoid:
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** NUTRIENT JAR STIRRING SYSTEM **
Nutrient Jar Stirring Fans:
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Nutrient Jar Magnetic Stir Bars:
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Nutrient Jar Magnets:
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Nutrient Jar Superglue (I used LePage but I don't think it's available in the States so this should work):
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** RESERVOIRS **
Reservoir Totes:
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1/2" Double-Threaded Bulkhead for Connections to Reservoirs:
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1/2" Tubing to go between reservoirs and out to plants:
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Sharkbite swivel to attach tubing between 12V solenoid on RO res and 1/2" float valve on nute mix res (requires wormdrive clamp to secure hose to fitting):
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Wormdrive Clamp:
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Nut Res Fill Float Valve:
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1/4" Float valve for DIY Humidifier and RO Res:
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DIY Weigh Scale Kit for Reservoir:
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** MISC **
WiFi-Controlled AC Plugs:
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DIY Humidifier Ultrasonic Discs:
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Reverse Osmosis System:
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Wire Rack:
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omg im crying, fin ally a guy who thinks like me also is smarter than me and did all this. huge respect! i wanted to do something like this for the past 2 years now i have the right inspiration. thank you!!!
Please talk more about hassio setup, coding and related!
Your setup is so cool. Thanks for going over the magnetic stirrers in more detail.
This is an amazing device. You should strongly consider releasing your code and wire diagrams so this device can truly spread throughout the world.
Home Assistant is an open source project, anyone can download the code and install it
Nick's Stuff yes, Home Assistant is Open Source, but the code he has written to *customise* it would be helpful for people starting out.
@@nelsonc5339 yes, a fork would be a great idea !
@@nelsonc5339 Dont be lazy. We live in 2020. You can become an expert on anything with youtube etc.
Dude thats awesome! Thats a crazy good setup, great work with all the extra cool stuff like those improv stirbars that make appealing colourfull vortexes while reducing manual labor. 4-digit stable probe readings are good, that 12 power supply was a smart idea.
Wow!!! Man that is the most amazing feeding system I’ve seen!! Outstanding, clean job!! As usual!! Touché!!
Ay, thanks!
Thanks for a great video. I love that you jump between SI units and US customary units🥸
This is exactly what im working, this has definitely filled in some blanks!! Thank you!!
WOW!!! Love the stirring feature!! Your UI is the best I’ve seen! Amazing!!!
Thank you. Dashboards are finicky in HA but look nice for sure.
Ok, 1st time I have been impressed with a dosing, climate and data log config with gardening. Need more.
Thanks for sharing. Your system is fantastic. I was just looking for away to automatically water my garden. With a system like this I can see I can do a lot more like controlling my Grey water recycling system
Very cool setup! Nice work
the magnetic stirring is such a good idea.
Its a common idea thats used a lot in labs and the science and tech industries
@@conorstewart2214 genius though. :)
Amazing staff :)) will be glad to hear more for the hassio and components you use (how to style :}}})
Super cool video. Amazing work man. Love it !!!
Superb work. I will do a much simpler version but I will have your setup in mind.
Dude this is really cool! I think this could very well be a big thing. I custom design and build LED lights & electronics among other items so I do business with a number of manufacturers. I'll say it again, when the time comes you want to whip up a prototype, I'm more than happy to lend a hand. This is too cool to not become a thing. Keep the updates coming!
Nice. Any links to the lights you're designing?
thats insane, great job sir!! Wow!
Like many of the others who commented, I've wanted to build something like this for years. It is a large project that requires a TON of time to configure and assemble. Kudos to you man, I respect your ambition and dedication. You seem to have covered every aspect of an automated indoor garden. Love it! Do you happen to have a BOM or total cost that you've put into this project? Thanks for sharing this with all of us!!
Beautiful work!
Great Job! Thank you for sharing!
This is really neat!
Wow, what a great set up. You mentioned you might do a video on the initial set up of the raspberry, I’d love to see where to even begin with setting this up, thanks for sharing!
wow, makes me want to recreate this amazing system!
Well just ordered my first Raspberry Pi to start learning this set up! Awesome Video thanks to introducing me to this
Hey, awesome! Best of luck. Also, have you seen my latest video? There's a link in there you will likely find useful.
Going to give this a shot. Thank you for the video.
Very cool! Nice work
Great project. Keep it up.
Your voice activation demo shut off my lights, thanks!
Sorry, I’ll turn ‘em back on for you in the next one.
really good job .. I am impressed
great work love it!
So clean i love it🤩
This is mind blowing. Surely you should be consulting now? I would think there are professional operations that aren't running this much automation.
Nice, I have planned an autosystem out tons of times over the last 2 decades as technology changed, but never built one. Nice Stir plates! I thought my designs were ahead of the curve there. Nope, You rule.
Amazing mixing thing bro
Wanted to give something as I have learnt so much from you. Just got my Atlas Scientific into HA with calibration commands, as an example! Love your work - keep at it
Thank you! I'm glad you've got it up and running - the Atlas stuff is awesome.
@@LEDGardener Really cool bit of kit. Im super glad its in ESP Home as now I dont need to learn serial in Arduino. haha. anyway, thanks again, looking forward to your next vid, whenever that may be!
love the magnetic mixer!!! hooooooooooouuuuuu never think in this thank you men!!!
Bro, so great!
Sweet setup, the stirrers are brilliant. I can tell you are a fellow AV person with the xlr, BNC and the middle atlantic power strip.
Hahaha. Good eye. You are correct.
Mad respect! I own a company setting up professional grow rooms funny thing is I also use magnetic stir plates for nutrient mixing. Great minds think alike!
Ha! What an awesome career. Very cool.
LED Gardener it’s definitely a lot of fun! You wouldn’t happen to live in mi would you? If so I’m looking for another person to join the team
I just ordered ever part via your affiliate links. YW! Not a cheap project, but damn this is gonna be fun. Be warned I'll probably ping you on the forums and youtube.
Great project! And too funny. Every time you said “hey Siri” my iPads Siri woke up and asked me what I wanted.
Myk Bates sorry bout that - wasn’t thinking and I should have bleeped it out!
pretty damn good for a prototype! I'm just getting into Raspberry/Arduino myself at the moment, and this is a project that's high on my list. I'll keep u posted :) My YT channel for now is mostly Rally Sim-racing, Drone building/flying and other gaming. Content will get better after I'm done moving cities in august.
Incredible!
Hello from Russia! This is a very interesting system. I'm not sure that there is a need for the use of Arduino. But since it works, that’s fine!
It is very interesting to see how you did the automation in the Home Assistant.
As an aid to your project, I can offer a solution for the use of capacitive humidity sensors. They do not oxidize and do not have a harmful effect on the environment.
Love it.
Badass...magnet stirs work very..
This is awesome.. 😁 😁
Epic vid bro diy ftw💪👍✌
I was wondering if maybe you could use an aeration system for the nutrients? Not sure how blowing air-bubbles through the jar will affect them though, but it would mix them around. The way you did it is very effective though :).
I have enjoyed seeing your setup. It's amazing the things you can do with Home Assistant and it is so stable now.
Great Idea. Ths.
so cool
@LED Gardender Thank you for sharing your detail project. I am impressed, if you want to take up a project if you are available, could we explore further?
much better than the bluelab kit!
ohHh that's why my mixer is getting thrown all over the place. My polarity was equal on my magents. I flipped them and now i have a nice funnel!
So to start off , can. I buy this set up from you sir and secondly you need to make a Amazon store with the list of products, so that way you can get paid from ppl making there own . This setup is by far my absolute favorite on the internet. Most hydroponic set ups feel mechanical in set up and very hands on that I've seen . 🙌 hi five bro ! But for real you should make kits for gen. pop. And put it on Amazon. A++ work good sir
Really Intresting!You did a great job...is it worth it?
Holy Sh!t that's my dream right there, perfectly executed. I have all the knowledge, none of the time.
Would you ever commercialize it?
Thanks man. I don’t think I’d ever sell something like this. I’m too new to it myself.
I now have to go put hella jell on my head because you just blew my hair back!!
awesome, have you figured how to measure the nutrient mix? ? NPK sensor or something?
That date and time card is very handy!
Ive copied the relavant parts of the conf. File but cant find it when i try to add card. Any tips on setting it up would be greatly appreciated!
Keep up the work!
Thanks
Great setup !! I'm using Home Assistant for few years to automate stuff at home and if I can automate even further that's nice :) thank you for sharing all your knowledge!!
Did you tried/worked with DFRobot hardware? they seem to have very abordable hardware compared to Atlas Scientific.
That would be great to see this kind of DIY projects at a more "frendly" budget, especially that this kind of automation benefits a lot more to small growers rather than big ones (it's their job to monitor PH, EC, adjust etc 😅)
I've been anxiously waiting!
1st comment :D
i like this..
Beautiful system! Are you planning to make money from this? I have also been working on an automated grow system for the past year or so, but have taken a very different approach. I will share it when it's in more finished state. My grows are also not hydroponic which adds a lot of complexity to your setup which you've come up with a beautiful solution for. Really awesome man.
Hey Connor. I don't intend to produce a product or software to make money from this. I make just enough through affiliate links to pay for this hobby and share what I find. I'm very curious how the approach you've taken is much more different. Eager to see what you've come up with when you're ready to share.
jesus this is so over my head haha damn thats so freaking cool lol
Suscribed!
Very nice. I was curious how often you find needing to calibrate the pumps? I like your water level solution!
Thankya. I haven’t had to adjust them yet in terms of calibration but I have bumped the speed up to quickly pump solution in and out of things a few times.
amazing idea with motor controllers for solenoids and diy magnetic stirrer... i suggest to check out mycodo, open source project, amazing hydroponic controller, maybe youll find use of it...
I’ve heard of it. Haven’t checked it out yet tho since I’m getting further down the HA rabbit hole.
Hi,
Is there a capillary relationship between the diluted solution reservoir and the pure solution stagnant in the pipe downstream of the peristaltic pump?
Once again👊👊
Congratulations! Great work! Please share the code We could make it better together! I'd be happy to try this on a bigger scale. If you need any help let me know!
Nice, awesome setup!
A question about your light times... Are you aiming at giving your plants constant 24/7 light?
Most plats need a resting time where it's dark.. so after ~8h of full sun light they wont get any benefit from the light :) (idk if more light is harmful or not)
Also i think it's possible to put some fancy Grafana plots on your Lovelace dashboards using a webview component.
Cheers!
No sir. My schedule is set for 18 hours on time. I'd love to get into Grafana.
Do you have PID controls on your adjustment pumps?
So cool. I want to do this too but looks complicated
I came here for the yaml and found the nerd bible. This is awesome
This made me chuckle.
Great usage of HA for something other than a house. Are you using node red for automation's?
Not yet... I think it’s just a matter of time before I do though.
I would love to see more about the how you did that with the irrigation schedule. I mean how you make the slider and appearing disappearing times
I have binary sensors that go high or low depending on the state of the fertigation frequencey input number. I use conditions in the lovelace card that look at the state of the binary sensors - for example if binary sensors 1-5 are high, it will show all 5 time inputs. If only 1-3 are high and 4-5 are low, it only shows the first 3 time inputs.
Here's the code for the custom card:
cards:
- entities:
- input_number.fertigation_freq
- input_number.fertigation_duration
show_header_toggle: false
title: Fertigations
type: entities
- card:
entities:
- input_datetime.fert_1_time_4x4
type: entities
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.fert_1
state: 'on'
type: conditional
- card:
entities:
- input_datetime.fert_2_time_4x4
type: entities
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.fert_2
state: 'on'
type: conditional
- card:
entities:
- input_datetime.fert_3_time_4x4
type: entities
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.fert_3
state: 'on'
type: conditional
- card:
entities:
- input_datetime.fert_4_time_4x4
type: entities
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.fert_4
state: 'on'
type: conditional
- card:
entities:
- input_datetime.fert_5_time_4x4
type: entities
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.fert_5
state: 'on'
type: conditional
type: vertical-stack
You can't hear it, but I'm clapping right now. Great work man. I am not familiar at all with home assistant. I am looking forward to diving in and making something similar. Is there a forum somewhere with people such as yourself discussing things like this?
Awesome. The official Home Assistant forums are an excellent resource. There are some really good videos on TH-cam to get started with it by Bruh Automation and JuanMTech.
@@LEDGardener I've been going through Atlas scientific's instructable tutorials all morning. It's looking like it's going to be easier to setup than I thought. At the moment, my goal is to setup auto ph dosing and ec control with a simple display. I already have environmental controls in place, but I plan on integrating everything similarly to what you've done so I can monitor and control remotely. I will definitely check out Bruh Automation and JuanMTech. Thanks again for the information!
Nice! Feel free to make a thread in the control forum at ledgardener.com/forum if you need some help. You’ll want to electrically isolate the pH probe and EC probe if they’re in the same tank since the EC probe will throw off the pH readings if you don’t. You can get voltage isolation boards from Atlas or the Tentacle shield i bought does this too and it comes with example sketches of Arduino code to poll the sensors that I modified to fit my system. The code that came with it was literally the first Arduino program I’d ever opened.
@@LEDGardener Great, might be a couple of weeks before I get started. But when I do, I will definitely start a thread there.
cool
Just came across your video. Great work! I also just picked up a pH kit from atlas. How are you sending the calibration codes? Are you using i2c with esphome to send the commands or some other means? The reading come through great, but I haven't figured out how to calibrate just yet
I haven’t calibrated yet through ESPHome but it might be worth spending a bit of time to figure out how to trigger it. In my original system I would just send the command over i2c whenever I needed to since it ran off Arduino code.
If I remember correctly, Atala says the time before recalibration is ~1 year though, so hopefully it doesn’t need to be done too often anyway.
your a legend.
Great information... THANKS! ... please bleep out the „Hey Siri“ in future videos... 😂
Noted!
Do you plan to share your home assistant configuration files? Great project! keep us updated
I do. I want to get it a bit more polished first but I definitely want to get it out there. Thanks!
@@LEDGardener owman, so looking forward to this! really slick work led gardner! love it!
@@LEDGardener I'm also interested, especially in the lovelace and input template sensors. Very well done!
@@LEDGardener man this is very interesting, it would be awesome to have a detailed diy guide with diagrams ecc
@@LEDGardener really looking foward to this
is there a way for the program, home assistant, accommodate for the viscosity of the nutrients? I noticed that you have floraGrow listed, which is a very thick nutrient solution. How are you sure you are measuring the correct amount of nutrient? Or is there another way to deal with making sure that you are getting the correct measurement of nutrients?
Cool project ! Who do you make the graphical interface ?
It’s all built using “cards” in home assistant.
Dude I know this is asking a ton but do you think you could post a beginner parts list to get a small scale rdwc auto res?
All those awesome features and my mind gets blown by spinning magnets. LMAO
Thanks for the video! Which pH sensor and which float sensor do you use?
It's an Atlas Ezo pH circuit and Atlas probe, and the float sensor is a generic one like this: www.amazon.ca/dp/B00909404Y/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=gs2&linkId=fba6fababaeb52bef879ed236cd6e655&creativeASIN=B00909404Y&tag=ledg02-20&creative=9325
@@LEDGardener thanks again! got both of this now.
I noticed you are using Celcius and EC rather than Fahrenheit or PPM. Congratulations! now to get rid of your gallons and inches... whatever they are :P
Great job. Can you address how safe it is to have the magnet in nutrient solution or ph up and down which are harsh acids? Also what kind of tubing/where did you buy for the peristaltics
The pH up and down are majorly diluted. The stirrers have a coating on them that seems to be impervious the the ph solutions. I’ve got a link in the description to the tubing somewhere.
Yea I ended up looking it up, they use Teflon. Great job on this and good idea on diluting the ph up and down. Saves a headache when it comes to what tubing to use. What kind of tubing did you use for the inside of the peristaltics? It looks like you use food grade vinyl for the solutions but what kind of tubing did you connect them too?
Michael S whatever’s inside the pump from factory. I’m banking on them being foodsafe as well since the pumps aren’t super cheap and it seems they’re recommended for food applications.
Even calibrates the probes...WHAT!!!!!😱🤯😳
Curious what EC sensor you use and if you have it constantly submersed? Everything I’ve read said that it shortens the life, so I was thinking of pumping the res up to a “test” mason jar and then empty it when finished.
It’s an Atlas conductivity probe and it’s rated for permanent submersion
how do you added the camera to home assistant???
Nice work. Is your electricity cheaper at night?
Growing Answers I don’t believe so. I run my lights at night to keep it warm since it’s chilly in my basement.
LED Gardener I also run my lights from 17:00-11:00 to keep the tent warm. It drops to 16°C in my basement at night, and gets up to 20°C during the day.
Did you think about creating a blueprint for your design? I've been using HA for over 4 years but not just getting into hydroponics. Great setup!!! Thank you.
I've posted a diagram, parts list, and all the code at my github repo at github.com/ledgardener/gardenAutomation if you're talking about blueprints in a Home Assistant automation sense, I have not yet created any since they didn't exist at the time I shared all my code.
@@LEDGardener Thanks for the reply! I will keep you posted if you want on my progress. My goal is an NFT system and maybe a Hybrid DWC system since I want to grow both veggies and leafy greens. I've got some different ideas but your work will very likely come in handy and will definitely give you credit where due!
Very cool. Good luck!
Can you set up instrumentation to quantify your air movement and flow? How many CFM are you moving through your system?
What would you use this data for?
im sorry for asking too much but as im now following your way of the farm i found one problem if you can guide me how to pass it which is the TDS or as you have it in your system under the name of EC
im trying to add the TDS sensor to my homeassistant but the ESP-Home is not supporting that sensor so if you can show me or give me any source from where i can get that sensor to work
thank you
the ESPs are running Esphome ??
Could you use a VPD chart to control your humidity? like instead of setting an ideal % fallow what the % should be based on the temp? also any way to create long term graph or log for a plants grow? maybe to like a google doc or sheet that has avg temp high and low for each day. after watching your videos i starting moving items off my Pi to esp's and homeassist its been cool.
The VPD thing is a really good idea.
I think a lot of people are using something called influxdb to manage their historical data. I added the add-on but haven’t learned it yet. Welcome to the fold!
It is possible but you need to put the leaf temp into the equation for prefect VPD. It's never the same day to day on a growing plant. Best to focus on just the room temps & humidity, keeps you within range.