Raspberry Auto-Gardener Project: What Plants Need to Grow? (The Plan)

I got the strawberry plants! This episode is about what plants need to grow and about my sophisticated plan of how I'll automate all these.

00:00 Intro
01:20 What do plants need?
02:40 How to automate all these with a raspberry pi?
05:46 Conclusion

THE TOOLS I SHOWED IN THIS VIDEO:
* Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B)
* moisture sensor (Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor - I2C Capacitive)
* 5V mini water pump (horizontal)
* 5V 1 channel mini relay
* Growing lamp (IKEA TERTIAL lamp stand + LightMe LED lamp (25umol/s))
* 433 Mhz plug + remote
* 433MHz RF transmitter
* light sensor (Adafruit VEML7700 Lux Sensor)

CODE:

ALL EPISODES:

USEFUL LINKS:

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

IMAGE SOURCES:
- COVER: Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash

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[ecocarlisle]

Hi Tomi, thank you for the great series! Will you be updating the series with how to connect the water pump and the light sensor?

[chadbonadonna]

Great series! Going to try this for an outside garden.

[nit]

You are the one of the greatest engineer on Youtube!
I'm proud of you from Japan, and I wish you are keeping going on.
You are teaching me a lot!

[victorgil]

I don't see in any of your episodes where you connect the water pump to the raspberry pi
... am i crazy here.

[DetectiveBlackCat]

Using relay is great, I learned there is wifi controlled relay using ESP8266 low cost wifi chip . I was wondering if we can use it to control the pumps, the light and even talk to sensors remotely?
So that we are no longer limited to GPIO pins, then we can automate a whole lot more plants each have their own IP address. Oh, and how about cameras for remote monitoring, wired or wireless, IP cams?
Just some ideas for thought, your wired version is already looking great. Keep it up man. It helps me a lot as well. Thank you.

P.S. to automate the soil, you just add some "Liquid Plant Food" into your water tank, mix it up with your water on a very low percentage and feed to soil through watering. Or do it with a seperate pump and tank.

[Jeromeeb]

So how did this turn out overall? I'm thinking about buying the sensor to toy with, did it make a successful project? I've seen a few reviews where people aren't happy with the sensors range.

[frankhu]

The code link doesn't seem to work