Automated control system - any experience or directions?

[hideouspenguinboy]

I use Mycodo on a raspberry pi, connected to a bunch of relays.

Through it I monitor temp and humidity. My main lights and far red lights are set up on a timer. My heat/AC and vents turn on and off depending on temp/humidity. All of these can be monitored thru the web interface on a graph. If temp/humidity ever reach dangerous levels, it emails me.

In the future I'll add moisture, light, and CO2 sensors so I can automate top feed watering and CO2. (I'll also put the vents on controllers that play well with said CO2) And by then I'll finally buy a humidifier. (;

Ask me any questions you have!

[bvolt]

I use Mycodo on a raspberry pi, connected to a bunch of relays.

Through it I monitor temp and humidity. My main lights and far red lights are set up on a timer. My heat/AC and vents turn on and off depending on temp/humidity. All of these can be monitored thru the web interface on a graph. If temp/humidity ever reach dangerous levels, it emails me.

In the future I'll add moisture, light, and CO2 sensors so I can automate top feed watering and CO2. (I'll also put the vents on controllers that play well with said CO2) And by then I'll finally buy a humidifier. (;

Ask me any questions you have!

Did you write the program running on the R-Pi, or were you able to buy and modify something?

[hideouspenguinboy]

You install Raspian, and then Mycodo https://github.com/kizniche/Mycodo

That's it! The only thing that I screwed up was that the timers are literal. (ON from 12pm-12am means exactly that. You have to have a separate OFF timer. It's a good thing in case of power failure, but I didn't know and had 24hr light for a day. (; )

[LEDG]

I use Mycodo on a raspberry pi, connected to a bunch of relays.

Through it I monitor temp and humidity. My main lights and far red lights are set up on a timer. My heat/AC and vents turn on and off depending on temp/humidity. All of these can be monitored thru the web interface on a graph. If temp/humidity ever reach dangerous levels, it emails me.

In the future I'll add moisture, light, and CO2 sensors so I can automate top feed watering and CO2. (I'll also put the vents on controllers that play well with said CO2) And by then I'll finally buy a humidifier. (;

Ask me any questions you have!

What sensors are you using to monitor humidity and temp?

[hideouspenguinboy]

So, the program has a list of supported sensors. If you check out that link it should give you the full list. Also, if there was a new sensor you were into, you could probably convince the maker to add it. It's mostly stuff you can get on Adafruit.

[LEDG]

So, the program has a list of supported sensors. If you check out that link it should give you the full list. Also, if there was a new sensor you were into, you could probably convince the maker to add it. It's mostly stuff you can get on Adafruit.

Which, in particular, do you use? Just curious.

[majorana]

I bought DHT22/AM2302 (€5 on Amazon), still didn't get around to use it. It's the one that repeatedly came up when looking for one.

I wonder about writing the guy behind Mycodo to add pH/TDS sensor (+peristaltic pump correction) support. That's the holy grail there. I guess I should get acquainted with this GitHub world first.

[hideouspenguinboy]

Currently I'm only using DHT22 's.

As for adding new pH/TDS, I bet he would consider some help to add those features. OpenSource community stuff and all. I can't imagine it would be super hard to import code from other people open projects using it. I'll certainly be looking at that in like.... 6 months. Maybe I'll learn the language to help out unless someone does it before I get to it!

[mrNLK]

Hey guys!

I'm actively designing a light build ad hoping to put incorporate something that allows my fixtures to connect with the ChilLED. Do you know Raspberry Pi has the capability to decipher and send information/data to a central controller. I have a huge space to cover and don't want to be manually operating 100+ fixtures.

Thanks!

[hideouspenguinboy]

The raspberry pi is a straight up linux computer. If you can find out what they use, I'm positive you can. It's just finding a program to do it for you or building it yourself... until you know what it uses, I can't even begin to search. (I want ChilLED tech real bad, but it's out of my price range currently)