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Plant Monitoring
An Adafruit HUZZAH32 based plant monitor. This hardware build leverages the esphome platform to monitor a plant and transmit the information to an MQTT server. The sensors and data are tied back to a home-assistant.io deployment using MQTT for tracking information inside Home Assistant.
Please note: this is a SINGLE plant build. It can be adapted for >1 plant.
Hardware / Bill Of Materials
| Quantity | Hardware | Product Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adafruit HUZZAH32 | https://www.adafruit.com/product/4172 |
| 1 | Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor | https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026 |
| 1 | DS18B20 temperature sensor | https://www.adafruit.com/product/381 |
| 8 | JST 4 pin STEMMA Wire | https://www.adafruit.com/product/3955 |
| 1 | Waterproof 3xAA Battery Holder | https://www.adafruit.com/product/771 |
| 1 | SparkFun MOSFET Power Controller | https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11214 |
Future Software
- Alerts when not reporting data (likely dead batteries / similar)
- Add 'expire after' for the signal check in HA (4 hours reasonable)
- If it's expired throw an alert stating no data from node for x amount of time