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I am tidying and fixing up flaws in my model that informs plant maintenance.

Before I destroy 2-3 hours, does anyone here own a plant and would like an Arduino powered box that helps you keep your plant healthy?

Here is the old design (Top off) with flaws. I am currently going through my docs to see what went wrong.

Model name is GHG/GX-E38: GHG is project name (GreenHouseGas) GX-E38 is HEXA encoded model name.

Cheers!

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[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the concept, here's a few questions!

  • What's the form factor of your project?
  • Will it be waterproof or just a housing for the electronics?
  • Is it wall powered or battery?

I've been looking at setting up soil monitors for my garden, although I'm wanting them to report to Home Assistant. I'd prefer a Zigbee or Z-Wave monitor, but it seems bluetooth or rolling your own seems to be the way to go right now.

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't exacly know what you mean, but the (generic) Form Factor of this device is:

  • Unimonitor. (Designed to monitor one plant. [Needs Changing])
  • Extensible. (CC-BY-SA CAD source, GPLv3 code)
  • Durable. (5mm thick wall, IP33)

The device is rain-resistant, but nothing fancy.

It's wall powered.

It doesn't use LAN/PAM. Instead, a local config and IR controller is used to modify paramaters. However, you could code this in.

Sould there be anything to change for the device?