Comment on "A pumpkin is not a house plant" they told me...

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sal@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I have three moisture-in-soil sensors inserted around the plant. The idea was to use to them to control the irrigation, but they did not work out.

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks rather snazzy! What’s the brand?

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    • Sal@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The sensors are from AZDelivery, these ones. They are connected to an arduino nano which reads the capacitance values and sends them over to a raspberry pi 5. The raspberry pi 5 is connected to a few other sensors (CO2, particle counter, air humidity and temperature all from Sensirion), and there is a 7-inch raspberry pi display that the pi writes images to. I was making a home air quality station but I decided to place everything around the pumpkin instead for now, to see if I could get something interesting out of that. But, so far most of them have not been practically useful.

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