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    Custom made Raspberry Pi growing setup, automates lights, fans and a humidifier using temperature and humidity sensors. There is also a camera for remote monitoring.

    Maxibright 125w blue spectrum.

    Programmed using NodeJS using Express (and a few bash and python scripts to help) Frontend is JQuery.

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    Future additions will be a pump for automated watering and moisture probes in the soil.

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    To quote Emil from Robocop

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    There is a thread by (I think) Winston? using a PI as a monitoring tool. Take a look, dunno the ins & outs through
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    The part cost of the setup is around £130 too, pretty cheap for almost full automation :P

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    Do you have any photos of the Raspberry Pi all wired up with the plants in view? Also, can you describe how you got the system working? Maybe provide some steps for someone else to set up something similar.

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    Hi i don't have any but i'll take some photos for you. As for the system its not something you could set-up yourself unless you know or are willing to learn about Javascript writing and electronics. But I'm thinking about releasing a package so people can just buy the stuff and connect it up but who knows. If you do want to learn to make it yourself i can link you to some sites that will get you started, and i can help trouble shoot any problem you have

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    That would be good, surprised there isn't something on the market already.

    I''ve been using labview and a thermocouple to log my temps and am looking to get my setup automated once I've moved house.

    I'm not familiar with the pi but as it's cheap I'd like to get one to have a go.

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    winston had one going but i,m not too keen on it tbh, if something goes wrong like a power cut your fooked

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murdock View Post
    winston had one going but i,m not too keen on it tbh, if something goes wrong like a power cut your fooked
    Power cut you're fucked anyway the computer will have a battery life to keep running, dont think it will power a hps for long though

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    Quote Originally Posted by chufuginlookinat View Post
    Power cut you're fucked anyway the computer will have a battery life to keep running, dont think it will power a hps for long though
    The pi won't be powering the light just switching a relay on and off, the light circuit will be wired into the relay, any battery backup will most likely be just to power the pi

    Nice project though, thought about doing something similar with my pi but never got round to it, learned a bit of python myself but recently moved to objective c, miss how easy and powerful python is though

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