New hobbies are fun
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:24 pm
Hey everyone!
I came across this site when I found LEDgardener's videos on building control systems for hydroponics. For the longest time I avoided all electrical/tech related stuff because I wasn't any good at it. I have rebuilt car engines, designed indoor gardens, and larger greenhouse hydroponic systems.....lots of system design stuff, all while avoiding the electrical aspects. I have always looked for "premade" tech solutions. I am a Chef by trade, and run a greenhouse that provides produce for my restaurant and local grocery store. Oh, and I have 50 chickens/guinea/ducks. Outside of this year, I am usually very busy. So automation is pretty much a necessity to be able to make all this stuff work.
After Covid wrecked my culinary career(at least in the short term) I decided to branch out into a more lucrative crop: Medical Marijuana. I now have investors, and expectations I need to meet, so the level of control I require for my grows has gone up significantly. After watching the video series, and not understanding half of it, I was still able to conclude that there is huge potential in the raspberry pi/home assistant idea. I picked up some books, registered on here, and I feel that over the winter I will be able to come up at least a few ways to make my life easier, and this project more profitable.
If anything, I will learn a little bit more about how things I use daily work. Which is cool with me.
Irie Farmer
I came across this site when I found LEDgardener's videos on building control systems for hydroponics. For the longest time I avoided all electrical/tech related stuff because I wasn't any good at it. I have rebuilt car engines, designed indoor gardens, and larger greenhouse hydroponic systems.....lots of system design stuff, all while avoiding the electrical aspects. I have always looked for "premade" tech solutions. I am a Chef by trade, and run a greenhouse that provides produce for my restaurant and local grocery store. Oh, and I have 50 chickens/guinea/ducks. Outside of this year, I am usually very busy. So automation is pretty much a necessity to be able to make all this stuff work.
After Covid wrecked my culinary career(at least in the short term) I decided to branch out into a more lucrative crop: Medical Marijuana. I now have investors, and expectations I need to meet, so the level of control I require for my grows has gone up significantly. After watching the video series, and not understanding half of it, I was still able to conclude that there is huge potential in the raspberry pi/home assistant idea. I picked up some books, registered on here, and I feel that over the winter I will be able to come up at least a few ways to make my life easier, and this project more profitable.
If anything, I will learn a little bit more about how things I use daily work. Which is cool with me.
Irie Farmer