Indoor Growlab Research - EP2 - Controls and Sensors
Apollo-NG
We are finally going to start our indoor growlab research environment to experiment with grow assistance, profiling and automation for any crop really. The best term to describe this project really is: Software Defined Growing (SDG). In order to keep the costs low and repeatability high we are using cheap off the shelf (COTS) components and will try to hack around in their controls to be able to control them via esphome, home-assistant and node-red to establish a full governing system to keep all environment parameters within the specified regions for the different stages of plant growth according to the profile we chose to run.
Hardware in this Episode
- Light: 2024 Spider Farmer SF1000 Samsung LM301H EVO LED Grow Light
- Fan: Spider Farmer 4-Inch 205 CFM Inline Fan
- Bed Heater: iPower 48W Heating Mat 51x51cm
- Bed Heater Control: Shelly Dimmer 2
- ARM SBC: Odroid C2
- CO2 Sensor: Sensirion SCD30
- ESP32 Module for fan & light control and sensor reading
FOSS Stack
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