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Man this thread is way over my head! Make my brain hurt! Lmao back to my office ! Lol
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd need:
- Raspberry pi module $50
- MH-Z16 Co2 Sensor $115
- Temp/humidity sensor $15
Total cost: $180 + setup time
Man this thread is way over my head! Make my brain hurt! Lmao back to my office ! Lol
So this deal is rather backwards from the usual suspects in tech.
The software is free and works. The hard part is building the hardware platform.
Now let me put this out there. The Raspberry Pi was designed exactly for 10 year olds. The learning path has that glide slope.
So if you are all into watching your grandkids and any random child run circles around you - there you have it.
I for my self choose another path. They will have to guess my passwords if they want a dime when I'm dead and I'm not making shit easy in the meanwhile.
I hope for the future. But I know I have to set an example for the little buggers. Reach until you can grasp, no more.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The tracking features of this software is whats really drawing me in. Im thinking about wiping my old laptop completely and trying to install a cpu version of rasbian, without a partitioned hard drive. Would turn my old laptop purely into a grow calculator/work comp
And that is all that matters, really. For me I get this itching in the back of my brain that fucks with me. I envy your satisfaction.This is overkill for a tent but I love my sentinel controller.
I'm 30 and am in a tech role at a major tech company in silicon valley.
I really like the idea of building my own automation, just as something to do while the plants grow.
That would work for display - but the sensor end pretty much requires that hacky thing the raspi does so well. I mean, if ya wanna go nuts, Kyle has a containerized port of Mycodo that needs more exposure and testing - but I haven't thought much about using a laptop alone as the controller.Hot damn, that sounds perfect for a cheap used laptop special.
Do we have a forum resource on VPN's and other online privacy stuff? I'd love to see what everyone else is using for security.
@jaguarlax That first option is def a easy and affordable. If it's accurate enough, then maybe enough for at the moment. Have you found it useful thus far? Are you able to determine when you need to raise C02 levels with this device and see the results? I'm a noob in the garden so only going by theory atm with C02.
Wow!!! Thanks for the share... Great ideas and potential here. So many skills I've been wanting to learn and now I have a very good reason to learn it... It's so amazing what you can do with automation. Keeping this in mind for when I'm ready.I came across this thread and thought you guys might be interested in an article and video produced by the developer of Mycodo, building an automated hydroponic system. It's an NFT system, but the principles should easily apply to other types.
Automated Hydroponic System Build – Projects | Kyle Gabriel
kylegabriel.com
Can you provide more info on the screenshot? I would love to know how this was created, template online or from scratch etc. and what language? I am looking at the AC Infinity controller but the wifi version isn't out yet and Vivosun is releasing a controller in a few days. I'm just getting started and I have several Raspberry Pi devices and a hydroponic lettuce setup with EC/PPM and PH all monitored by one of the Pi devices already so I would love to give creating my own controller a try. I can do web and python coding and mysql among others so whatever hardware/software info you can provide would be great or even code if you don't mind sharing. I can figure whatever I need out from whatever you can provide.And this is why you should build your own. The expensive component is the CO2 sensor. Temp and humidity can be covered with a AM2315 probe ( ~$15 ) and I recommend the MH-Z16 for the CO2 sensor ( cost would vary depending on using serial or I2C ) Raspberry Pi as the compute/display device.
Seems like alot of detail, huh? The upside is you can use the data collected to provide control signals if you want to implement automation.
This, you cannot buy. But you can build it.
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