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by rogueacres
Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:52 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?
Replies: 36
Views: 21356

Re: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?

I use an ADS1115 chip to read the values of my capacitive soil moisture sensors, I noticed you have: ads.setGain(GAIN_ONE); which means the ADS1115 will read a value +/- 4.096V. Then you have: voltage = ads.readADC_SingleEnded(0) / 10; which takes the voltage and divides by 10, so now you will only...
by rogueacres
Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:32 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?
Replies: 36
Views: 21356

Re: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?

how do you send the calibration messages to the device from home assistant? An automation to send a message over MQTT? Also, I spent a chunk of my weekend and have essentially rebuilt the framework into ESPhome. The one part I can't figure out and maybe you can help me is this: voltage = ads.readADC...
by rogueacres
Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:53 pm
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?
Replies: 36
Views: 21356

Re: Cheaper alternative to Atlas Scientific?

When you set this all up. did you ever try adding a custom component or did you configure through esphome at all? Trying to figure out a way to do this all through ESP home
by rogueacres
Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:29 am
Forum: Home Assistant Gardening
Topic: new to automation, follow me as i stumble to success
Replies: 11
Views: 5044

Re: new to automation, follow me as i stumble to success

What pumps did you end up using for this? I don't want to buy a bunch of individual pumps if i don't have to