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Indoor farming software using the Raspberry Pi
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Which relay to use? #85

Open nicholseric opened 4 years ago

nicholseric commented 4 years ago

Is anyone experimenting with the HAT based relays like this one? https://sequentmicrosystems.com/index.php?route=amp/product/product&product_id=50 If I have a light, pump and fan for each shelf on my grow rack, plus moisture and temp\humidity sensor, I quickly use up the available gpio's and can only serve up 5 shelf's per raspberry pi. One of these expandable HAT based relays could significantly scale this out but would require using different modules?

It seems like each crop should have its own lights, fans, pumps and sensors instead of a pi for each crop. I dont intend on having each shelf or each rack with a mono crop all on the same growing, lighting and watering schedule. Would that be too much of a re-architecture?

nicholseric commented 4 years ago

15926967912868419981792967714082 I decided on the non HAT for my prototype 15926969114418924172959677292488

nicholseric commented 4 years ago

Here it is all finished. IMG_20200622_215607 IMG_20200622_215715