Having indoor plants is something many people want but they find that they forget the plants or they do well for reasons that aren't entirely clear. An automated watering and monitoring system can greatly help to reduce these challenges. For this project several sensors were implemented including a dust sensor, environmental sensor, water sensor, and air quality monitor. Taken together these systems can give us a strong idea of the plants health and general environmental conditions. Looking at these can give us an idea of what problems our plant might be facing. This allows for the development of useful mitigations. We also don't have to check everything directly. This is an option of course using the OLED screen and its printout but this system updates to https://io.adafruit.com/Tigress/dashboards/phytohydrator and shows the levels of different elements so it can be checked almost anywhere. The watering aspect happens automatically tracking the water sensor to see whether the soil is dry. If it gets to a certain point the pump turns on and moves the water from the basin into the plant soil. This prevents any suffering by the plant from dehydration. The water levels also can be checked and monitored remotely. There is a button on the dashboard for manual watering options as well so that can be done at will without waiting for the automatic elements to kick in.
https://io.adafruit.com/Tigress/dashboards/phytohydrator
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