https://github.com/oppodelldog/balkonygardener
software to control plant watering
https://github.com/oppodelldog/balkonygardener
automation diy iot watering-plants
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software to control plant watering
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/oppodelldog/balkonygardener
- Owner: Oppodelldog
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-05-26T21:04:05.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-01T12:20:50.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-14T08:11:24.435Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: automation, diy, iot, watering-plants
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 9.14 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# balkonygardener
This is the software part of by balkony gardener hobby project.
I am a bad gardener, and a lazy one.
I have no clue when to water the plants and what else to do with them - I just
like to have them on my balkony growing and following the flow of time.
Also, I like to travel on vacations so there're many days in a row where they would get
no water and just dry out.
So why not build some water pumping system that does the job for me?
## Just do it
* take a beer crate
* make some holes
* put a raspberry pi it
* connect a relais to the pi
* connect a pump to the relais
* write some software for control
So this project here is about controlling the **balkondy-gardener-machine**.
### Scheduled watering
Every evening it waters the plants, there some configurtion of how long which pump wil do the watering.
### Web interface
There's a web-interface to trigger the tasks on demand.
It also shows a list of time series data from sensors.
### Moisture Sensors (Arduino -> Pi)
I also connected an arduino with 4 moisture sensors to gather data, put it in sqlite db and display the data
in a graph. The idea was to trigger watering only if plants need water. Somehow those moisture sensors did
not work repliably.
### Ultrasonic sensor (Arduino -> Pi)
With arduino kits often comes an ultrasonic sensor that measures ditances.
I use this to measure the filling level of the water tank.
## Conclusion
This project worked out well in terms of watering and manual control via the webinterface.
### Raspberry Pi
Raspberry pi is very robust, in the first years during winter I put the whole crate inside.
The last year I left it outside, and it is still working.
### Sensoring
Sensoring part would need more attention.
### Arduino
Even if the sensors themselves did not work good, the arduino connected
to the pi via usb putting data through a serial, connection worked very well.
