It’s a little more than what I am used too. But never boring. Always a pleasure

Awesome video! Made me return to microcontroller programming which I had abandoned 20 years ago. I will definitely start building my own plant watering solution. Thanks a lot!

Genius. I like everything you've done here with the automation. Definitely interested in your coding, subscribed in case you do make another video.

as an engineer, I was looking forward to the video behind the programing and web interface of the microcontroller set up. I'm sure it would have been a bore for "normal" people, but niche/nerd people like me would have been interested.

well done. thanks for sharing. all of us novices greatly appreciate it.

Hi Sean, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I took over my dad's allotment a couple of years ago and need to move with the times. In the process of converting to no dig and have 3 greenhouses I want to add. Excellent channel. Much obliged.

Absolutely brilliant, i'm looking forward to seeing the other vlogs. A pdf, booklet or otherwise on your set up, parts & costings would be great. I'd happily pay for info as I'm sure others would.

You are a very knowledgeable man. Keep the vids going. Thanks

I really appreciated the detail in all of what you covered. It has a lot of cross over for other projects. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos on hot sauce. I was actually looking for hot sauce vids and saw this one and had to watch as I too am a tinkerer. Thanks again for sharing!

Great video and very informative.

Neat stuff. Looking forward to your next video in this series....

Absolutely awesome, well done mate 👍

I quite like this, as I have a 40W mono panel going to an MPPT converter, that then goes to 1) a 12V battery bank (retired UPSs), and 2) a 12V timer. I then use the timer to feed the tomato and chilli plants from a 100L reservoir with a little pump (there is also an air pump and stone that keeps the water extra oxygenated), and the 100L tank is then kept topped up from a gravity-fed source with a float. Just have to manually adjust the pH and EC from time to time (every few weeks it seems, unless it rains or a frog gets into the piping). Thanks for the awesome content, as always! PS I use 'real' electronics for any sensor components (currently just night/day pickup); capacitors and transistors, not a digital program :P

Great video given me a few brilliant ideas for next year

tks again for your tips that i should have on my last search!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing :)

Very impressive!

I would also like to start a greenhouse automation project. You video helped me to understand what challenges I could have, thank you very much

Subscribed because of this video. This is greatness. Thank you.

Fantastic work, I really liked it. What is the black colour box that you used to enclose arduino and where can I find that, thank you

Thanks for the Video , very helpful and good n clear narrations on the Automation Devices for Remote and Automatic Controls.

thank you dude love the vid

Thank you so much I was wanting some ideas for growing in winter. I will refur to this and may contact you in the future.

Love it! would you or have you used moisture sensors to control the watering using this set up?

Very Cool!

Its very nice I have made this project but use arduino mega so how i can start Please help me

Great Video. Do you have your code available for the esp8266? I'm trying to write something similar though with physical switches as well as a timer schedule for the relays.

Very informative - subscribed - a lot of knowledge shared.

Really nice video and explanation. Thank you.

I'm keen to see how you set up all the coding and interface. I have similar projects that this type of setup would be perfect for 😍

Great vid! I want to automate my garden's water needs. Would the little guys you used be able to work with capacitive moisture sensors? It gets 40C and over and I want the system to account for that.

Some don't have links how much did it all cost I like a heater and cold fan maybe watering for my green house and temperature control by solar power, regards

Very good job, i very interested by your project, congrats

omg, you're a genius. I would love your system... we could swap knowledge. I'm into soil, composting and feed

Very cool.

Fascinating info. I use solar off-grid here in florida for an electric fence and to pump water from a reservoir into our little cabin. I use drip tape irrigation and automation to water when i'm not there would be ?great! Unfortunately i've only just heard of "arduinos" on the website "Instructables" but now i have reason to dive further in.

Thanks for the explanations. One question I still have about those pumps... Was that a 2 pin JST connector? What were you running it back to?

Many thanks - very useful. Came across your video looking for cooling methods for my greenhouse - I currently have the wax filled type like yours .. but over time I have learnt to """hate""" them! :) The "cunning plan!" Use a 12v dc car radiator fan 14" approx £16 - 90Watt with volume over oscillation :(

I do appreciate this info. Question: How do you heat in cold weather?

I planned crazy stuff like that a few weeks ago for my greenhouse and the I discovered Autopots! A dynamic system works much better I think. Nevertheless great work!

very nice setup! I learned a few useful things from you today. I noticed that you display the consumed power in kWh, shouldn't that be in kW?

Just stumbled across your channel after looking for something else unrelated (PC fan cooling) but have been mulling over how I could automate and collect data points from around our homestead for some time. Got a bit of a background interest in electronics (more from childhood) and have done some php/JS programming but am no engineer. Know nothing about audrino etc but am excited about the possibilities. We have large ibc water tanks about the place and various barrels and I need to know the water levels in the IBC, temps in 2 greenhouses and now I've installed drip tape I would like to automate that as well as climate control etc. My gig was doing web based back office management systems and user interfaces so am excited by getting that going much like you have. I will head over to your other channel and dive in over here. I can see it's going to be a busy/fun winter ahead, indoors, whilst it's -25 outdoors.

What about a hybrid system? like a backup and log system for the microcontroller tha can be remotely controlled through rasberry pie and also be a back up system

Realy cool. Try incorporating more sensors to help the automation. Start with rain and soil moisture sensors. I Think it be awesome. You could also try to create an automated climate or something.....🦧

I recently moved house to a place with a greenhouse. Today I installed a solar panel and the epever controller. I have been following your other channel on automation, so I am really interested to know how you connected to the com port on the controller to get the information on your pc.

Hi there have you had a look at pc fans? they are cheap a do 12v

Nice setup! Have you thought about adding some sort of soil moisture monitor to the system?

Great video, lots of good info. I'm still in the planning phase of my greenhouse. Definitely will watch again.

impressive & concise! but there is no illustration on the energy consumption of auto window vents?

Awesome project ! Did you post wiring/sketch on a forum or something? Or can you share your code? :D

Just wondering did you ever make changes to this system, any updates? After seeing this I'm looking at trying to do something at my allotment, starting with perhaps a small hydroponics system and expanding from there.

Hi Sean. This is a great video and one that I've been particularly keen on revisiting. I have two allotments with two glass greenhouses and soon to be built 16ft X 24ft polytunnel. I noticed in your later videos that you have IBCs for water storage now. It would be great to see an updated video about your irrigation automation system, water storage and how you manage automation of fertiliser too. I think I recall you had an extra water pump and water butt just for the fertiliser. Was wondering if you still go by the same system or if you've upgraded? I've been trying to decide between purchasing an off the shelf solar powered irrigation system from a company called Irrigatia or whether I should build from scratch, allowing me to add things like fans and usb/laptop power. (My allotment is off-grid). Cheers

Great video! Just what i’m looking for! Can you share the code for running the pump? Thx!

This is pretty awesome, thanks for sharing. Which programming languages did you use? I second the comments about making a video coving the programming.

Hi, incredible thing that you have done here!! Complete admiration to you sir. I`d have couple of questions. 1) As a beginner I see this project and it is completely overwhelming - where and how would you recommend to start? 2) Did you do the second video about the actual coding (could not find it). 3) Someties what we see is just the end result - assuming that you are normal working human being - how long did it take to make? Do you work on this in all your free time? Or is there a lot of iterations step by step? Thank you.

THANK YOU

I am working on setting up a solar powered greenhouse. Is the 100W panel still sufficient with the grow lights you have added?

Oh, and what cable are you using? I've been running it all with 4mm (12awg) that should handle ~22A perfectly fine, but find over my 5m run I'm dropping about 300mA.

Deep cycle is the name for that battery :p

Mount your fans the opposite direction. Instead of pointing them down, point them up. You can still have them oscillate. It will be a remarkable difference in moving hot air out, and the bees will be fine.

Amazing! Do you have any video showing how the louvers or windows open and close?

Very helpful video, thank you.

Will a 12V 7Ah battery be enough for a miniature version? And what's the total wattage of the system

I have a question. where can you buy these splitters for 8 outputs? Give me answer please

Hi i'm interested in the ESP8266 programming, have you made a video about this? I haven't seen one on your channel or overlooked it. Is the source code available, i'm interested in the scheduling part.

Hi. Your video nspired me to set up an automated system, though not yet with all your bells and whistles. One question (Why is it the simple things are often the most difficult to work out) : As the fertiliser is added to the tank and is continuously provided whenever water is added am I right in thinking that it is very diluted (much more than usual). Using chilli focus as an example what level of dilution are you using?

Chilies and automation!!

Hi Sean, I’m half way programming my Arduino and have a question. Your fans, how are they triggered? Time based, humidity or temperature 🤔

Very cool project. Do you have a GitHub repository where we can find the code? Have you thought about more enhancements like adding a flow sensor to the pumps and adding the fertilizer automatically?

hi nice project. it should be usefull for me to know more details about hardware (esp8266) details and software details (web site) thx

hey sir, i want to bulid automation system in my greenhouse please give me some information for vegetables how to create and what devices i can use

Nice video, excellent detail. But the total exenditure on your watering and electric ventilation system must surely be at least £1K, yes?

Hi, I am really interested to put up green house with automation as of yours. Can you supply the basic system for a price, I mean besides the solar panels, battery, fans , pumps , drippers etc. I am based in India.

When you turned the fan on, why did the battery's charge current go up? Shouldn't the battery be left alone if the solar panel is producing enough power to run the fan? I'm not sure why running the fan would require more power to be fed into the battery, potentially overcharging it.

Howdy all. My name is Mike and I happen to be a blind home distiller. I want to build a talking/audible PID controller for controlling the heating element in my Stainless Steel Combination Pot/Reflux still. Would anyone here know of an audible type PID unit? It would have to support 20 amps120 volts. I’d like to find one that would run through an IPhone app. I operate my IPhone in what’s known as “Voice Over” mode; this is how blind people use their IPhones. So this app would have to be Voice Over accessible. Any suggestions would be so greatly appreciated big time!

Very interesting setup thanks.

South Africa!!!!!

Awesome video and explanations, any code examples for this project?

Microcontrollers can also crash. It's not common, but it does happen. As for a raspberry pi I have, it runs pihole and some vpn hosting software. It's ran for months on end without ever having issues. I'll occasionally run updates on it, and restart it, but I've never actually had to go up to it and pull the plug.

Man you programmed all of that your self that is really cool what would it cost to get you to make me a watering system for my garden next year

Great video, could you do a vid on connecting the epever tracer to a wemos?

yip, id pay for a pdf on your set up, also on your mains feed into your greenhouse, how have you earthed the structure, im led to believe a 10mm copper cable back to earth is reqd

Hello, my name is William Blood and I am working with Maine Math and Science Alliance on a project about sustainable agriculture and we are looking for footage about using Solar energy to power green houses. I would like to ask if you would be willing to give us permission to use this video. The purpose of what we are doing is to educate school children about the technology that is out their and the children will use it in their classrooms to give them ideas with their project on creating a virtual sustainable economy. Thank you in advance.

So Mr.Anderson , what size is your greenhouse?

sorry to have bothered you again, but can you also show us the circuit schematic for the automated system mentioned in the above video, tks a lot!

I would like to see price for all of that stuff.

Nice system, just remember lead acid battery fumes attack Electronics. I would not let them share a compartment.

Can you do an update sometime soon?

How much did this set you back?

We call them deep cycle batteries in the US.

Regarding the fan.. Try goggling transpiration.. U got the concept right btw.. This is just more of a "fun facts", i guess

Wait, please tell me you're using the term FTP colloquially - please tell me you're using SFTP D:

I have never had my Linux machines crash unless I was tinkering with unstable software.

For the sake of simplification I'm just going to call your board an Arduino. It's technically known as an 'Arduino Clone'. 1. Your battery shouldn't be inputting varying voltages to the Arduino. Just because the input voltage has a range doesn't mean that circuit operation will tolerate changes to that range. You should have a voltage regulator in between the Arduino and the Battery, especially if you also have a charging system connected to the batt as well. :/ 2. You wouldn't have more loss of power on the 5v side than on the 12v? The 12v gets converted down to 5v as well...that's where your power loss would be. The 5v USB connector is only there to power the Arduino enough to upload your sketches. You use the 12v barrel plug for running your circuits. The reason is that the 5v USB connector is limited to a maximum of 500milliamps, 30 of which are used by the Arduino itself. Meaning on USB your entire system can't be drawing >~450mA. If you draw more than that it start tripping the polyfuse, and with repeats damaging the fuse. When you swith to the 12v barrel plug, on your model, it increases that limit to 1A. 3. The difference between a RaspberryPI and an Arduino is not that the PI is a computer. They're both computers. There are not more chances for something to go wrong on a PI, both it and the Arduino crash for the same reasons. The Arduino is not a machine. It boots up just like any other computer. It does have drivers. RaspberryPI's can be configured to boot up, automatically log in, and continue running...just like an Arduino. You do not get stalls in a Pi, you just have software you don't need for the purpose running on it because you have the wrong type of OS. For a project like this try the lightest version of Raspbian and then add only the software you need. The difference that you're looking for is that the header pins on a Pi have much lower current limits and take a greater understanding of programming and electronics to deploy. But the real answer is that you need both. The Arduino is built for interfacing with harware, and the PI for interfacing with humans, while at the same time they're both extremely good at communicating with each other. So code that allows human interaction with the settings that control the greenhouse should be on the PI, it then tells the Arduino what to do, the Arduino knows how to do...it does, and then the greenhouse is. 4. If you put those DHT22 sensors inside small Stevenson Screens, inside and outside the greenhouse, you'll get much more accurate temp and humidity readings. On a side note, the pressure release valve system on your irrigation inlet manifold (water hose that goes back into the reservoir to manually control pressure) was brilliant. I'm going to use that in my design. An upgrade to consider: they make solenoid valves for water hoses that are controlled by 12v. Couple one of those with this bad boy, uk.rs-online.com/web/p/pressure-sensors/2355891/ and you could automate that pressure release system automatically. You could even code it to preemptively open the relief valve just prior to pump shutoff to reduce water hammer and thereby decrease the stress on those expensive motors as well as your entire irrigation system. Just out of curiosity how are you managing the back electromotive force generated when your pumps kick off? And what's your transistor setup for triggering the relays that control your pumps?

Thumbs up, its an excellent video, but to be truly offgrid you'd need some way of "dialling in" to your device remotely as you're extremely unlikely to have wifi offgrid ;-)

Maybe paying a radio station to plants classic or classic rock to plants they will produce better! look up video of Myth Busters about plants and music!

That suction cup will fall off> with changing temperature and humidity 21:03 would need to super glue it

I have lost my ear for accents, Is that Zim?

Are you South African?

Are you an engineer?