Automatic watering system for my strawberries
As I don‘t have a water outlet on my balcony I use a water tank and a pump for watering my strawberries. I developed a controller for the pump which runs natively on Apple Homekit but I‘d like to change it to Matter and Threads in the future.
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This is cool, does it basically run the pump at certain times laid out by apple home kit?
Yes exactly. It checks the weather forecast however so it doesn’t water when it‘s raining. This way I don’t have to refill the canister too often. A better way would be to attach moisture sensors to the plants, but I don’t like having to change batteries constantly. This is a very simple solution but it works for me.
Nice one. What software did you put on the ESP32?
I used this code as the base and changed it slightly so the pump has a safety time out and can be controlled via PWM.
In newer projects I use code from Espressif however because it works with Matter and Threads.