@@LEDGardener Well I started with aeroponics using compressed air and nozzles that take an air and water mix, but I'm moving into soil. It's pretty loud and I think I can get better tasting plants with soil. Right now I'm building a soil, 1/3 vermicompost, 1/3 CSPM , 1/3 pumice, with neem, karanja, gypsum dust, basalt dust, and oyster shell. Throwing in worms and cover cropping with clovers. Automation is going to be pretty minimal at first but I might try to run some temp humidity on home automation like you are. I also really like that flood trigger. Maybe even a camera! Might water using blumat. Going to do it all in a 4x8 grow bed in a 5x9 tent.
Hi! Where do you pump the nutritients? Do you pump it right into the reservoir? And how do you make sure, that the system will make the right EC? Is it constantly checking ec and then stopping or based on a timer? Thanks
I'm too cheap to pay two separate internet bills. I'm just using a mobile hotspot for my internet. 23€/month for limitless is nice but if I leave with my cell the apartment won't have internet making automation impossible. This kind of stuff would be the only reason for two interwebs. Very cool.
Love the setup, have you considered incorporating aeroponics at all? I’m currently working on building my own automated garden system and am hoping to implement aeroponics to save on water consumption and avoid needing a grow medium.
Aeroponics is something I've never touched. Seems pretty dang cool but I don't want to go down another rabbit hole before I finish some other projects!
Hey Man! love the video. I hate to bother but you have really inspired me, id love to set up my own DIY dosing system. I'd like to do this just to start with. then possibly look into PH sensors etc. do you have any material that you could forward to me that could help me anything would be appreciated. Thanks Josh
Amazing thank you so much. Question. Can I set up and use a system without internet. I men if I use the WiFi router just for the network? I don't have access to internet
From what I've read, as long as you can point the pi at an NTP server to get its time, it should work. The pi relies on going out over the internet to get its time and home assistant needs to know what time it is, so if you can localize this you should be good. Of course you'll have no remote access when away from home and it'll be more difficult to update the system. I'd try it on a cheap pi to see if you can get it working and then once you find out, move forward or say screw it.
How exactly are you controlling the speed of the vent fan? I've got a vent fan that is variable speed. It has a 120VAC plug and another plug used for speed control. When it is connected to the temp controller that came with the vent fan i can control the speed through the controller and when speed control plug is unplugged from the controller the vent fan turns at a constant 100% speed. I was wondering if you could explain a little bit how you are controlling your vent fan speed? I haven't been able to find a electrical schematic that explains the internal circuitry of the fan online.
Dude! THANK YOU for putting in the effort to share detailed info and code on your build. I've been wanting to do something like this but afraid of all the rabbit holes I know I will go down. Your work will greatly reduce wasted time and blind alleys in which I would no doubt have been mugged. :-)
This rocks! Diy to the rescue. It is crazy how the market has overlooked all the small time growers out their. They only cater to big time grows with there 2k-20k system automation. Also their 2k-5k automation have half the bells and whistles this has. Look forward to seeing more. Thanks!
Thanks so much for putting this together. As someone with many years experience coding on different platforms, I welcome you to the club. I look forward to more.
Love your set up !! After seeing the full automation series I bought a raspberry pi 4 and a few sensors to get started , thanks for the effort you've put in getting this idea out there 👏👏👏
For the love of god, if your starting out on home assistant, and if you watch this and think that you can just go spend $1000 on everything and just transfer the code over…….. yea fucking right. 5 weeks later and I’m fucking done.
Very impressive if you've never coded before (unaware how the Home Assistant is at the moment) But very interested in replicating this setup to automate irrigation and nutrient delivery
Wow you posted eveything? That's hardcore. You're a badass. I also don't know anything about programming aside from copy n pasting html, Javascript and maybe stuff for my 3d printers codes. Arduino and raspberry pi I haven't messed with but wanted to. My current system takes a lot of what's already out there and uses it differently but yours is very much custom. I'd love to incorporate the ph and nutrient automation but I'm also new to gardening so I don't really know what ppm is needed and recently got over root rot so Im trying to figure out why my ppm is going up daily lol
I also commented last video of my issue with contamination from the jars based on reactions with different salts, check out "Erlenmeyer Flask" on Amazon, mean to go with your stir stations... I wish I was as tech as you, your set up is so cool, do yo plan to include hvac control for maybe a mini split ac/heat unit? co2 control? that would round it out, lol, love it!
Hey thanks for the recommendation; checking it out now. I'd love to do some HVAC work for this rig. It gets really cold here and touches -40 once or twice a year typically. I don't know much about mini splits but I don't think my climate works for them. CO2 would be fun too.
@@TheUnofficialMaker I also put my nutrients in ball jars, makes it easier to use syringes to measure, when the nutrient comes into contact with the metal of the lid, either from bumping the jar and causing a splash inside, or just through keeping it closed, there is a reaction between the metal of the lid and the different salts. I use all general hydroponics, not all, but some of the nutrients have growths that are "weird" or rust is coming in, I don't think the nutrients should be in a container with a metal lid, so the jars would be fine, in my opinion, but either replace the lids with plastic, or just get the right flask, guess there is an exact right flask to use, i just saw one that could replace what he has in his set up, plus it looks good enough to go with a project this nice, in my opinion. I also think some of the nutrients are supposed to not see as much light, but I only know about the jar build up on lids for sure. I would in no way think i have any complaints about what he built, this is awesome, this is just a thing i personally deal with right now
i am struggling to get anything working on the pi with touch i will keep reading and reading but i am finding home assistant frustrating i hope to get something i can use soon cool project
This is hugely impressive for a first go at coding and electronics. I'm trying to get started with some automation projects for my hydroponics as a hobbyist myself, and I'm curious how long it took you to learn what you needed and successfully execute this design.
I just Love it.. And thanks so much for putting all of this together. I am sure this will help so many people its unreal. Just so great you did this and shared it all.. Simply brilliant
Superb, just what i'm looking for to KickStart my manual hydroponics system and make life a little easier maybe lol. Please keep up the content it's Great
@ LED Gardener, thanks for your video, may I know how did you desing the UI in you project ? is there a program that you can customize it based on your set up?
Ignore the 2 thumbs down, you have done an amazing job, this the best automation system ive seen, thank you for sharing, im going to have a look at building this system, as complete automation and of course live data 24 7 anywhere is very appealing. Great job, you dont think you do but you've got skills kid.
Dude, don't you know that the minimum size space to run this stuff in is a 20 acre greenhouse? At least that seems to be the consensus here - hahaha. I get flak for using a 4x6.
Do you think it can work for a big scale open farm? im running substrate-based hydroponics (cocopeat) in an open farm. I want to use it to control solenoid valves to achieve desired EC for my plot.
Doesn't hurt to give yourself a little overhead so long as you're not too far over and taxing the voltage regulator. I think the limit is something like 12V but you wouldn't want to run that much.
I just ordered everything for your build. currently assembling. The the Whitebox labs tentacle shield for arduino is discontinued. only thing im missing. Could i purchase one from you if you have a spare, or could you direct me on what else to purchase? I have tried messaging through fb and ig but havent had luck. sorry to hijack the comments
Nice! Ah, I see they're releasing a new version this month. www.whiteboxes.ch/shop/whitebox-t1/ I don't have any extras, unfortunately. Could either wait for the new one or try to do it without the shield I suppose.
Shot in the dark, but if you're Canadian, they have one in stock here: leeselectronic.com/en/product/15805.html Might be able to find some stock elsewhere outside of Amazon.
this looks absolutely incredible! I ran a grow facility for about eight years and did everything more or less manually. I didn’t even dream of doing something like this, but I’m really surprised cause this is exactly what I do in my house. Anyway, if I ever start growing again believe me I’ll be looking at your stuff. This looks really really cool. Good job man really awesome!
Hey can you make a tutorial on how you set up your node red, and how the variables from the control box translates into HA? I got everything set up the same way as you, im just stuck on this particular step.
@@LEDGardener ah ok, I actually noticed all the variables show up on the dashboard configuration after a few minutes of the box being plugged into power. Just gotta populate the dashboard and I can get started on calibration. I hope this was worth the time haha
How do people like u exist. I wish I become capable enough in life to have friends like you. Thank you for pushing the human race forward. Every step no matter how small is a step forward.
Hey, I absolutely am in love with this project and looking to very closely replicate it! One question I have for you is how did you make the connections into the Arduino underneath the Tentacle shield? With DuPont connectors I was finding that the shield then would not snuggly fit into the Arduino. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Wooow Super nice done!! Thanks I made simillar projects and really appreciate your time!! loved the idea of magnetic stirrer plates Very Very Sharp 🙏✌️
good stuff now we just need some one to work on the food selection and planing part based on nuetrugent requirement by family size and the world will be a better place
That is a great set-up. I was wanting to automate my hydroponic systems. I currently grow in a 24 X 24 indoor grow house. Climate controlled etc. Keep up the good work.. I will have a ton of questions when I can make time to start this adventure..
I have a new grow room setup and have been learning HA. Thanks for the great vid. I'm going to try a slightly less Arduino based route though. Hoping to automate out of HA. I fear I may be limited by what HA will read from though. 🤔
Great videos!!! I would really like to see more on how you create some of the dashboard functions like the schedule Grow Start Date and Current Week. Thanks for the vids!!
With an up and coming project to automate a bunch of home grow systems this is very useful thank you for providing this great information to the community I can't wait to fork the project and help bring out its fullest potential.
