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So this is all in a greenhouse, huh? Interesting.INPUTS:
Inputs for the environmental stuff in the rooms, and the ambient outside. Temp humidity and CO2. Will need software to understand trending up vs trending down. PID control of heater would be nice as an output... if my heaters ok with that of course... consent is pretty important or else the smoke comes out. Heaters are pretty chill imo.
I’d like to do some current sensing inputs to verify things like lights are actually on, and not trending in power consumption over time.
I want to graph everything.
I’d like to verify that doors are closed? It’s an OCD in my current space that I predict will get worse. Fortunately! I have a bunch of door bump switches already.
Umm Outputs... lights, A/C (got no $ for mini split), humidity. Not really sure. Lots more to plan I guess. I don’t even know the layout really, just it’ll be about 16’x9’ with tall ceiling and two small windows.
An aside. An interesting idea I had, I’m sure I’m not the first for it- some time later later when I have a blackout greenhouse, I’d like to light it and have canopy PAR measured so the lights auto-dim to provide optimal as clouds go over or whatever.... I’m sure I can hijack my two SF-1000s dim knob and take them over. I’m sure I’ll do this to ward off rainy days later in life.
Very cool. Are you in the US? I'm Missouri.
I'm an electrical engineer first then comp sci in terms of college. I love this stuff. I don't get to use any of that training in my 9-5 any more, so I have a shop at home where I tinker. It would be fun to work with someone else on a project like this.
I like the 328 a lot, I use it in my remotes. I use I2C between RPi4 and remotes with local processing in the Atmega. The chips are only about a buck, and making circuit boards is really easy and cheap these days with folks like Osh Park. So I tend to just do 100% my own designs. I 3D print all my boxes and fittings and such. Very satisfying. I'll share anything I have with you.
Very cool. Are you in the US? I'm Missouri.
I'm an electrical engineer first then comp sci in terms of college. I love this stuff. I don't get to use any of that training in my 9-5 any more, so I have a shop at home where I tinker. It would be fun to work with someone else on a project like this.
I like the 328 a lot, I use it in my remotes. I use I2C between RPi4 and remotes with local processing in the Atmega. The chips are only about a buck, and making circuit boards is really easy and cheap these days with folks like Osh Park. So I tend to just do 100% my own designs. I 3D print all my boxes and fittings and such. Very satisfying. I'll share anything I have with you.
This needs clarification. I am only offsetting my cost of street price right now. This isn’t to make money at all. This is all skill building. I’m tearing my current setup down soon, and then will wait for it to be 6 plant legal for each of us. Then ideally I could legally move towards some form of micro business license. They haven’t figured out and released the details on how the state wants to do that. I’m watching itGot laid off. Now I’m like maybe I should just grow...
I wish I had his success! But we like to do the same sorts of things based on his shows. I tinker, always have.So you are like Jamie from myth busters.
If you do decide to jump back in you could do much worse than Prusa. I have 2 and no complaints.
I use the sunsysyem control for my 2/630 LEC's which has some nice features and I have 2 Gavita master El1 and El2 controller for my sodiums I upgraded to the El2 it has aux capability for fans and such but I like that set up better than the sunsysyem but it's limited strictly to the Gavita line as I believe the sunsysyem is compatible with other lighting research them both the sunrise sunset and dimming features are AWSUME makes your lighting more like mother nature's and protects your investment for dying off due to heat!Hi. I’m looking to invest in a general controller that I can slowly expand and improve over time. I am beginning design of a new space, probably 3-4 separate rooms. Currently I have 1 room with inkbirds and individual timers. I want to avoid shoe-stringing lots of small non-centrally controlled devices. I do want enviro data over time, a single controller, and later, maybe an HMI.
I just read Click Plus came out in March 2021. It looks affordable, and the options can do all and more of what I hope for. I need to dive deeper and research more first, but the language and architecture at a glance look open and accessible for free.
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Question is: Does anyone who knows what this is, want to chat about what a good option for PLC might be?
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I know there are other brands, I’m typically an Omron guy for work, this is my first personal purchase and Omron is $$$.
I am looking for an excuse to dive in and learn a new programming language. So I can be easily talked into researching others beyond Click Plus.
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