Plants while travelling

Tl;DR

Prep work for when you go on a trip and you have tomatoes at home

Intro

We come from:

And I know you love travelling.

You can use the setups I will explain accordingly to the typical weather while you are not at home.

The IoT and Controlled Watering

Watchout for that EMR kickback when the DC switches off

The Capilarity approach

Aka just physics approach.

Monitoring Plants while Travelling

Pi Cam 101

Using the raspberry camera for the first time

Particularly with mjpg-streamer

#git clone https://github.com/meinside/rpi-mjpg-streamer 
git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/rpi-mjpg-streamer
cd rpi-mjpg-streamer

The DHT Home Monitoring

I modified it recently to just be Node x PGsql (TimescaleDB)

Going from this:

To:

#docker ps | grep emqx
#cd ./RPi/Z_SelfHosting/pgsql
#docker ps | grep timescaledb
cd ./RPi/Z_MicroControllers/RPiPicoW/picow-dht-webapp-vpd-poc
docker compose up -d --build
#Web → http://<host>:8001 · DB → localhost:5433.
docker compose up -d --build webapp
#docker compose up -d #and here it goes timescaleDB + all the webApp
#docker exec -it timescaledb psql -U pico -d sensors

The one you can visit anytime at http://192.168.1.2:8077/

MQTT x Alerts

1. Initially I thought about webhooks
2. Then, I reminded that I tried gotify last year

Conclusions

Growth Experiment

How are the plants doing after ~6 weeks of planting them?

FAQ

When is the best weather to plant what?

You can use my latest trip-planner v4 as launched here

git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Py_Trip_Planner
cd ./Py_Trip_Planner/poc-trip-planner-v4
#npm run dev

Get the patters to know what to expect depending when you will be leaving your plants alone.

Inspiring resources

You get a walk around AC/DC power transmission

Concepts

1. VPD -