I really like the final product. Useful and relatively simple. However, I'm a little bit concerned about the calibration process. You used air and pure water to find the extent of the voltage ranges but in real life, the sensors should never see such values. To do so the soil should be completely floated or left to the sun for days with 0 water contact and even then I doubt air levels can be achieved. Maybe a better procedure is to have 2 or more soil samples with a known percentage of water.
The concept of this project is promising, but there are some issues with the moisture sensors that need improvement. The moisture sensors often require calibration and appear to be prone to failure. To enhance the system’s reliability, you might consider replacing them with small aquarium valves to control the flow of water to each plant. Additionally, adding a leak sensor at one of the plants to detect any water input anomalies could be beneficial. Simplifying the project by implementing manual flow control and incorporating a system to calculate and monitor the amount of water dispensed to each plant would be a great idea. This could be further enhanced by integrating a Wi-Fi switch for daily scheduling and remote control. Overall, with these improvements, the project has the potential to be highly effective and user-friendly.
Hi! Awesome video, but there is one problem - the Blynk QR code is no longer working with their new version. Could you upload a new QR code compatible with new Blynk version so we could try out the build? Thanks!
I want to build something similar due to me having 30+ plants and I just don't want to run around all the time and water them and remember all their specific watering preferences. Some plants are also in not so easy places. Having a system like that a bit scaled will definitely be a help and an absolute time saver (and I can keep up with my plant buying "addiction" lol).
You can try a single pump but use a stepper motor to squeeze multiple pipes an only open a single one to be pumped towards - might increase mechanical complexity, but exponentially increases the number of plants you can water with that
@@andreybushev3020 no - a single servo is using a dented tube to squeeze all but one tube at a time - and to water another plant you just need to turn the motor x angle and open the next pipe
you need to add a sensor if you run out of water in container, it better be just 0/1, checks ones a day and before watering to prevent damaging a pumps and water problems. its needs just 1 digital pin
@emilio: Can you integrate the hole setup into a homebridge / HomeKit setup? The setup of more rules like “turn on the water system when you leave the house” are convenient.
The build is great but what happens when you're on vacation for a week and the water runs out in the container? I have built a similar setup but using only one pump and I've cut the pipe in a v-shape to allow T-section junctions for multiple outputs in one pipe. The plants I have are pretty needy in terms of water and instead of using a soil moisture sensor, I'm using a timer-based function to turn the pump on for 10 seconds every six hours. I'm now thinking of connecting a bigger motor and getting the water directly from the home water supply line (instead of a small separate tank) and watering the entire garden with it for full automation. First, have to rig the garden with PVC pipes and spinning sprinklers.
The most seamless way would be to use a bigger variant of the ikea food box that he's using. They have really large ones. Best of luck on your garden build!
This is amazing. I’m currently building a self watering pot similar to this. You killed it in hardware. I’m using Arduino also and similar hardware but your 3D case is amazing. I’m going hard on the software side, using AI and building a powerful iOS app , but I just wanted to share with you that the casing is on top. If you design this to sell I would be interested to build the smart pot
If the auto mode can turn up the pump based on the humidity level, why can't it turn it off based on the same system? Could eliminate most of the hazle of pumping the right amount of water 🤔
those relays look way oversized for the pumps. you could get away with much smaller relays, or even ditch the relays altogether and use some small power MOSFETs (plus a flyback diode for protection) to switch the motors silently. heck, the MOSFETs used to turn on those giant relay coils are probably themselves strong enough to drive the pumps!
What can I say, fantastic! You are a real magician for the plants and for us a real little genius. Could you please provide us with the electrical plan of your creation! Thank you in advance and double thank you, I love it !!! Again and again....
Great video you have all the settings I would like to build bar one. I have a bottom watering system with a valve on each pot and want to water when the sensor dries out but water for say 3mins then wait for about an hour then if the sensors still dry water again for 3 mins and so on till it’s wet. Would this be simple to achieve?
question: so u the board u have states 3v, but isn't the relay control input 5v? also do u use the board to power the pumps or do you have a seperate loop?
That’s so amazing am new to electronics and 3D printing as am a truck driver am not very often home but I do love the idea of doing something my self, do you have a video that shows how the wiring goes ? I have printed all the parts in my prusa printer and came out amazing just received all my parts as well and also downloaded the app just the wiring is where I could use some help
Hello there, I have a questio. How have you gotten to the level of electronics you have? Or how can I get as good with electronics to make project like this one.
Love this build. Its so nice and clean. Im now going to try to build this for my wife. Have all the parts but Im missing a simple schematic? I have paused the video but its hard to see where all cables go. Do you have simple schematic? Would be so awesome.
You are right, schematic is missing, but you can find information in 0-setup.ino file - D1,D2 is I2C interface for AD converter (sensorrs) and D4 to D7 is a pump control etc. In case you want to make it, at least a minimum knowledge of Arduino and electronics is requested. But it is not nuclear science :-).
@@VlastikPospisil Cool. I have the knowledge so thats all good. One cable I cant figure out right now is the Yellow cable going from ESP to the Motors it looks like? Whats that? Thanks for a fun project
@@ludvigaldrin As you can see - 4:49 it is connected to central pin of the connector, but is not used and also I cannot find it in code as well. Maybe it is for future add ons - water level sensor for example? :-)
Hello, excuse me in advance for my English, I am French. Would it be possible to have the complete code in one part? Where a tutorial to install the 5 parties on github. thank you very much in advance
Great video mate, I would like to know if we can get skip the soil moisture sensors and use the automatic timer part can you share some insights on this thankyou.
Hey man, Awesome project! I am stuck on something. I Have an ESPduino (esp8266 arduino board) I followed your instructions exactly have the same sensors, ADS board etc. Blynk connects fine to the board but I am not getting any moisture data on the graph at all. Tried everything and even made sure the ADC is connected by looking at the serial monitor. Do you have a wiring diagram? Maybe i missed something. I have the sensor connected to the 3.3v pin but the ADC to the 5v pin if that helps.
Man looks awesome! I'm trying to do the same but with a timer, but I'm having trouble to install de librery of DS3132 for the timer in PlatformIO, someone knows how to do that? Thanks
Great video, helped me a lot when building a similar system. But a question though, in your case, does the soil moisture reading fluctuate a lot? Mine goes from 70% to 40% and back to 60% between 1 minute interval readings...
@@dalchandsharma1737 From my limited research, that's just how these inexpensive sensors work, I'm thinking to calculate an average moisture over time rather than using the raw readings.
@@teezzz20 how should increase the number of plants that the the system can handle, will it be possible to use a stepper motor instead in this same system with a few tweaks.
