It’s at a bit of an awkward stage to make content about at the moment because to finalize any part of it the other parts need to be at least vaguely in-place and tested, it is all coming together well though - minor a few disasters such as the leak i’m fixing today which soaked my carpet.
I have a video on the EC sensor coming soon, then turbidity (cloudiness), and pH. Any other ideas for water based sensors to test? Already done basic level sensors which work the same as switches.
Also going to be adding air quality sensors, maybe Co2 or something? I’ve experimented a couple of times but never been happy with any of the sensors i’ve tried so suggestions would be great,
The timelapse part of it is working really well which is nice, as i’ll be using that part of the pigrow more i’ll probably get round to porting that into the new pigrow gui with some upgrades - i am still working on upgrading and porting the user logs tab also, i think it’s only graphs after that then we can discontinue the original gui and finalize the new improved one – the graphs tab is going to require a lot of work to reorganise and improve especially with all the new datawall features, but i do want to get it done soon.
It’s looking pretty scrappy at the moment but it’s really starting to come together, i made that little switch and LED box to hold the bits I added in the last video and when i get the pigrow in a case with a ribbon cable between the GPIO and sensor breakout, controls, and relays it’ll hopefully be fairly easy to replicate on other boxes i have planned - a desert garden, mushroom growbox, decay box, and various experimental boxes. (also i haven’t forgotten about the windowsill one, that’ll be upgraded and black in place soon hopefully. my working pigrows are still just doing their thing quietly, i check the night temp graphs occasionally but they mostly look after themselves, and now it’s actually possible to get zeros again i’ll put some together to go outside with some sensors and solenoid controlled watering (hopefully if the testing and setup in the moss garden testing box goes well i’ll be able to have a sensor unit i can put into an outdoor water butt to monitor, maintain and dispense rain water)