Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Raspberry Pi Plant Watering System

Here's what I've been working on at Infusion lately: documenting the Raspberry Pi based plant watering system that measures the moisture content of the soil and triggers a relay-driven valve to water the plant:



Control software was built using node-red, with a FRED endpoint to talk to the cloud-hosted node-red instance that allows a public dashboard to be displayed (public dashboard available here).





One of the awesome things about node-red is that you can easily view the dashboard from a browser, and with FRED you can access it anywhere:



Detailed hardware and software write-ups on the PiShield site.

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