As I don‘t have a water outlet on my balcony I use a water tank and a pump for watering my strawberries. I developed a controller for the pump which runs natively on Apple Homekit but I‘d like to change it to Matter and Threads in the future.
Automatic watering system for my strawberries
4 Comments
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
This is cool, does it basically run the pump at certain times laid out by apple home kit?
bistdunarrisch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Yes exactly. It checks the weather forecast however so it doesn’t water when it‘s raining. This way I don’t have to refill the canister too often. A better way would be to attach moisture sensors to the plants, but I don’t like having to change batteries constantly. This is a very simple solution but it works for me.
JohnSmith@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
Nice one. What software did you put on the ESP32?
bistdunarrisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I used this code as the base and changed it slightly so the pump has a safety time out and can be controlled via PWM.
In newer projects I use code from Espressif however because it works with Matter and Threads.