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Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:48 pm
by 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!
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:09 pm
by bvolt
hideouspenguinboy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:48 pm
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?
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 3:36 pm
by 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. (; )
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:26 pm
by LEDG
hideouspenguinboy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:48 pm
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?
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:05 pm
by 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.
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 6:55 am
by LEDG
hideouspenguinboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:05 pm
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.
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 11:30 am
by 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.
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:35 pm
by 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!
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:16 pm
by 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!
Re: Automated control system - any experience or directions?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:19 pm
by 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)