Raspberry Pi Indoor Garden
Monitoring and watering my garden.
Raspberry pi indoor garden. For this project i wanted to do better than just a glorified timer. I had a wifi enabled raspberry pi laying around and decided to put it to good use. A hydroponic garden might not be the first place you would expect to find a single board computer but in this project it provides essential video monitoring and moisture detection.
An automated watering system that can use the weather forecast soil light and temperature sensors to keep my garden looking great all summer. The benefit of using smart home gardening is that it prevents our plants from getting too dry. A raspberry pi is used to relay useful information of the garden such as luminosity humidity and the moisture content in the soil from various sensors into a cloud database.
Garden irrigation planning. The other important planning aspect to consider is what data. Growing pesticide free hydroponic or organic hydroponic produce has never been easier especially now that the raspberry pi is here to help.
Although we irrigate the plants automatically however we still have to pour water into the bucket. With how busy our lives are it s sometimes easy to forget to pay a little attention to your thirsty indoor plants until it s too late and you are left with a crusty pile of yellow carcasses. Instead of constantly replacing those plants we ll show you how to make a compact automated raspberry pi powered gardener to water and light your plants.
All i needed now was to wire up the pi with the relay and think of how i am going to power both. Make sure to have your irrigation planned out if you are establishing a new system. The raspberry pi turns on the water pump to start watering the plants until the soil achieves a sufficient moisture level and then turns off the water pump.
The moisture is kept at the perfect level for our plants and we end up using less water. Raspberry pi 3 b is a complete overkill for this project and something as humble as even a raspberry pi zero w is more than enough to handle this. The other raspberry pi gardening projects don t talk about how they spread water over the soil which is a shame because we still haven t figured it out.
The plan was to use the pi s gpio pins to drive a relay board which in turn could control the pump. I ve written a simple script that wakes up at 10pm determines the likelihood of. Possible extensions of the raspberry pi greenhouse water level.
The first time we pumped water into our planter the tube directed a small stream into one spot completely soaking that area but leaving the rest of the soil dry. Once the information is in the cloud it can be accessed from anywhere using a smartphone app that we built. However we are not.
Timer and forecast based watering.
