Automate Your Grow without Breaking the Bank - Intro to Home Assistant & Demo
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025
- A bit of a teaser for our new series focusing on automating our indoor gardens with free software called Home Assistant. Let's learn Home Assistant together and come up with some butt-kickin' automations to take our grows to the next level!
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*PARTS IN THIS VIDEO*
Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit: amzn.to/2XdSM0h
TPLink HS105 Wifi Controllable Outlet: amzn.to/3dhfWIB
*PARTS FROM MY BUILD*
**CONTROL BOX**
BUD Industries NBF-32026 Plastic ABS NEMA Economy Box with Solid Door, 15-47/64" Length x 11-51/64" Width x 6-9/32" Height, Light Gray Finish:
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Plastic Internal Panel to Mount Gear:
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Panel-Mount AC Connector for Box:
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Nylon Standoffs:
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Cable Glands for Passing Cable In and Out of Control box:
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** CONTROL BOX MISC ELECTRONICS **
Amazon Fire Touch Panel Tablet:
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Right-angle Micro USB Cable for Tablet:
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Mean Well 12VDC Power Supply:
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Drok Voltage Stepdown Converter with Readout:
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Dupont Cables:
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Breadboards:
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Screw Terminal Blocks:
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8 Channel Relay Board:
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** DEVELOPMENT BOARDS (CONTROLLERS) **
You can also use other hardware, check out this page for a good writeup:
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Arduino Mega:
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ESP32S WiFi Development Board (Handles WiFi communication between control box and Home Assistant server as well as from inside tent to Home Assistant server):
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Whitebox Labs Tentacle Shield to Add Atlas Scientific Gear to an Arduino and provide electrical isolation of probes (pH probe needs to be isolated from EC probe):
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** SENSORS **
BME280 Temperature/Humidity/Pressure Sensors for Tent and Control Box:
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Waterproof Temperature Sensor for Nute Reservoir:
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Atlas Scientific Conductivity Kit K 1.0 5-200,000 μS/cm:
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Atlas Scientific pH Kit 0-14 pH:
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Moisture Sensors:
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Catch Basin Float Sensor:
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** PUMPS AND SOLENOIDS **
Peristaltic Pumps:
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Motor Drivers to Control Peristaltic Pump Speed:
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Tubing for Peristaltic Pumps:
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Nutrient Res Stirring Pump:
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Nutrient Fertigation Pump:
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Normally-Open 12V Solenoid (Allows water to flow into system until solenoid is activated, which closes it - used for flood protection. Requires 12VDC power supply and 1/4" spade connectors):
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1/4" Spade Connectors:
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Normally-Closed 12V Solenoid (Restricts water between RO res and Nute Res, requires pump in RO res to push water through it):
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Pump to push water through solenoid:
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** NUTRIENT JAR STIRRING SYSTEM **
Nutrient Jar Stirring Fans:
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Nutrient Jar Magnetic Stir Bars:
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Nutrient Jar Magnets:
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Nutrient Jar Superglue (I used LePage but I don't think it's available in the States so this should work):
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** RESERVOIRS **
Reservoir Totes:
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1/2" Double-Threaded Bulkhead for Connections to Reservoirs:
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1/2" Tubing to go between reservoirs and out to plants:
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Sharkbite swivel to attach tubing between 12V solenoid on RO res and 1/2" float valve on nute mix res (requires wormdrive clamp to secure hose to fitting):
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Wormdrive Clamp:
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Nut Res Fill Float Valve:
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1/4" Float valve for DIY Humidifier and RO Res:
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DIY Weigh Scale Kit for Reservoir:
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** MISC **
WiFi-Controlled AC Plugs:
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DIY Humidifier Ultrasonic Discs:
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Reverse Osmosis System:
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Wire Rack:
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One word, AWESOME!! This is what I was wanting for!! You little wizard made my day😉
Your initial videos got me into HA and I'm glad you're expanding. I currently am knee deep in esp8266 sensor building and Tasmota smart plug flashing. My current grow tent is now 100% automated (thanks to you) and I plan to bring it even further. Thanks so much for the instruction and inspiration. I'll be seeing you in the forums!
Hey that’s awesome! Are you using ESPHome for the 8266s?
@@LEDGardener I am using esphome, yes. I used the Arduino IDE until I found out about esphome. ESPhome blew my mind with the ease and simplicity of the config files and remote upload!
Yeah it’s incredible. Probably one of the biggest things that got me to stick with HA. If I had to write code for them separately, I likely would have given up.
@@LEDGardener yeah, esphome and Tasmota/MQTT have made this much easier on my brain. Next step is pH and EC monitoring using esp8266. Something of a more affordable variant than yours. I can't bring myself to buy that tentacle.
Godspeed and please share when you conquer it
I GOT MY PI AND CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS.
Have fun!
Quick question. I was looking at some of the materials. The pumps for dosing are high compared to some of the cheaper ones. I'm trying to use as many of you links as possible to support. Those pumps and sensors are a heavy pill to swallow lol. Would the cheaper versions present any problems in home assistant?
Thanks for sharing. That Reaper pepper plant looks great. Always nice to have real world proof of concept when experimenting.
Hey Matt, thanks man. I agree - it's important to be able to back your claims up too.
I am very excited for more and more of these vids
Very keen to get sharing
Great initiative! You opened my eyes to a whole new world for me after your first video. Thank you sir.
Nice! Thank you. This'll be fun.
Hello! Very necessary for my brain's coherence. Implementing right now!
I’m excited for these videos and getting started on my own setup!
That's what I like to hear!
Very interesting. I'll have to look into this further. Thanks for sharing
For sure. I'm eager to get this thing rolling.
I absolutely love your auto gardening system !! I think I have a great idea for you . Make another system, record the entire process, upload video, help tons of people like me better understand , get paid 👍
I think if you had a how to video and could follow along step by step . I would gain a much greater understanding and learn alot!
Love your stuff man!
Your video showing the dosing set up inspired me!!! I'M subbed!!! I'm running oracle64 on virtaulbox all set up on HA starting to play with stuff now
Hope to get the watch the next video soon. Curious on how we can start to include sensors and such. This is such a lifesaver and not to mention cost saver. Spent $$$$ on these type of stuff. Would love to build one on my own
Nice work iv been lurking got an uno r3 getting a pi 4 I'm on it
Beauty
Dig the work man! forgot to say that last couple comments been so blown away and my minds all over the place.
Heres a thought, I don't have a pi my pc is on 24/7 though, so I'm setting up home assistant in virtual box, which can be put on a pi. So why not distribute as a vdi?
Open source smart grow. Love it! Im in.
Man.. I'm waiting for led light parts and came across your channel because of that but now I got that automation itch again. I still have one 4 channel Sonoff board I bet I could connect with HomeAssistant. One single channel Sonoff burned and I was controlling just a normal house light with and that kinda put me off using them.
I’m paranoid about stuff like that happening so I’d be hesitant too. I have complete faith in the TP-LINK Kasa smart plugs I’m using though.
Hello! Cool video! You have chosen a difficult path. Keep a video blog from the basics, for beginners. It deserves respect.
I have only one wish. It would be great if you showed your yaml automation code and lovelace. For those who have already advanced in the initial settings of Home Assistant, but have not yet used it for such tasks.
And then we can help each other to improve their projects, without waiting for other newcomers to familiarize themselves with the basics of home assistant.
With respect to your work.
Thank you for this rabbit hole ♥️
I've always been interested in raspberry pi/Arduino and automating my indoor growroom.
Perfect opportunity. Great videos! I've been watching them for hours today
Thank you for sharing this
I'm using mozilla webthings right now and its ok but theres limitations. When I installed home assistant I had a hard time adding my tasmota devices. Once I get past that I'll be fine but I could use a bit of advice.
interesting and helpfull, thanks! nice garden!
Thanks man
Wow I was just talking about this for my grow room. I do everything by hand an having a raspberry Pi automation would be amazing. My brother works at Micro Center so finding the equipment will be easy. Just setting it up, might need some help lol. But this video is amazing, I just haven't pulled the trigger yet. 😑
Beauty. Get that Pi goin'.
can you share your automation.yaml to inspirate and learn how to do so a great job please
Love the build but what part is not breaking bank your build cost here in Amazon Canada over $2200 with out shipping costs or taxes that is out of most hobbyist building if you could come up with a video showing modular that a person could add to as they go along that would be awesome keep up the amazing videos thanks
I wasn’t really focussed on keeping my build as cheap as possible. It can certainly be done with cheaper parts, which is what I aim to show in this series. I’d be curious to see what a preassembled version with the same capabilities would cost.
Did I miss the Links...I don't see any!
Just in the description my dude
Like always a great video, I'm super stoked for this! But do they make dual Wi-Fi outlets, with battery backups that are compatible with home assistant?
Like a UPS, you mean?
Sweet
Do you have a Discord?
Not yet but I'm certainly considering it.
Do you have a discord? 👌
Nvm, got to the forum part of the video 😅 watched a few videos before asking, so was kind of fast on the trigger 😅
Lol. Poor Mrs. Ledgardener 😂
ROFL 7:10