Rebuilding My Automated Hydroponic Garden -3- Setting Up the Raspberry Pi (with an SSD!)

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Home Assistant flies on a Raspberry Pi 4 - especially when running off of an SSD. In this video, I'll show you how I installed HA on my Pi, as well as all the important add-ons that I'm using for my project. If you can't find a Pi right now, Home Assistant can also be run on Mac/Windows using a VM, so you can try it out that way first if you want.
** Links: **
- Join the Channel: / @ledgardener
- Buy me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/ledg
- Pi 4 Recommended SSDs and USB-SATA Cables: jamesachambers.com/best-ssd-s...
- HACS install Guide: hacs.xyz/docs/setup/download
- Home Assistant Remote Access Guide: • Automate Your Grow wit...
- Home Assistant Official Installation Instructions: www.home-assistant.io/install...
0:00 Intro
0:52 Join the Channel!
2:56 Home Assistant Summary/Layout
4:52 Parts Required
5:51 Flashing the MicroSD
7:23 Installing HA on the SSD
9:36 First Steps in HA
10:06 File Editor
10:37 Remote Access Add-ons
11:58 ESP Home
13:20 Samba Share
13:59 Terminal & SSH + HACS
** Parts (covered so far): **
(Some links are affiliate links which earn LEDgardener a commission at no extra cost to you)
Home Assistant Pi
- Raspberry Pi 4: www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-...
- Kingston SSD: amzn.to/3iPNguJ
- Startech SATA-USB Adapter: amzn.to/3NzHYlf
Lights
- ViparSpectra KS5000 4x4 Light: amzn.to/3J4ms5m
(use discount code GardenerKS on Amazon to save on all KS series lights)
- ChilLED Growcraft X3 2x4 Light: chilledgrowlights.com/our-pro... (use discount code LEDG5 at the official ChilLED store for 5% off)
- HLG Scorpion Diablo 5x5 Light: amzn.to/3t1dmkn
- ViparSpectra XS1500 2x2 Light: amzn.to/3pYtscC
Misc
- Vivosun 3x3 Tent: amzn.to/3q0XoVp
- Vivosun 800GPH Pump: amzn.to/3tNRtEg
- AC Infinity Cloudline S4 Exhaust Fan: amzn.to/37nY8xw
- AC Infinity Cloudline S6 Exhaust Fan: amzn.to/3tRZDvg
- Honeywell Circulation Fan: amzn.to/3CHYA5d
- Cal-Mag: amzn.to/3i2InOq
- Micro/Grow/Bloom: amzn.to/3KHy4vL
- 3 Gallon Fabric Pots: amzn.to/3JaP7pt
- Flood Tables: hydrobuilder.com/duralastics-...
- Ultrasonic Fogger for Humidifier: amzn.to/3i4pive
- Reverse Osmosis System: amzn.to/3I0Bp7b
- Coco Coir: Canna Coco

Пікірлер: 48

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Apologies for the interruption at the start of the video. I really enjoy this stuff and would love to be able to transform this to something more than a hobby/side hustle one day, so I can spend more time creating, exploring, and sharing the many ideas that clang around in my head. I figured I might as well try a few things to work toward that goal. Huge thank you to those who have supported me in the past and have helped me grow the channel to its current state!

@devschwick 2 жыл бұрын

No need to apologize! You deserve compensation for the great stuff you're putting out there. It's easy to tell how much effort you put in to these.

@kushion710gaming2 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your videos! Your content is so in-depth and everyone here can tell how passionate you are about helping others and being transparent. Great vibes man keep doing you!!

@wurzermichael 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for everything you’ve done definitely have been an inspiration for my garden.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@wurzermichael cheers, man. Glad it's helped 🤜

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@devschwick thanks man. Appreciate it.

@medwaymodelrailway7129 2 жыл бұрын

Nice update you done thanks for sharing.

@medwaymodelrailway7129 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for replying to my comment. I enjoy watching other people's work to get idea to improve my Channel. Take care DD

@pros2go 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see some new content. Excellent work as always.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@NoFaceCobain 2 жыл бұрын

Found the perfect channel

@kevinkidderphotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Just starting to play with HA and RaspberryPi here. Great information!!!

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. I've got a video in the works that I think you'll like.

@GiulioBerti 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, thanks! You earned a subscriber :)

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 💪

@knowyuhgrow420 2 жыл бұрын

Let's go 👊🏽

@crazysteve8088 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are awesome man. they have helped me a lot to automate my grow. What did you use to design a PCB? I got zero experience in PCB design but you made me wanna make my own. your setup is sick AF! do you have a video for making the magnetic stirrer?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I used EasyEDA for the PCBs. I had zero prior experience as well. I have not yet covered the stirrers but they’re pretty simple. Super glue a stack of magnets on one side of a little PC fan, and another stack oriented in the opposite polarity of the first, on the other side of the fan.

@danimasip50 Жыл бұрын

not being able to locate in Hacs the integration of the lights, you can provide more information to locate it. I would be very grateful.

@jccuchvjvj Жыл бұрын

What WiFi dimmer should I buy to replace the knob dimmer in my hlg lights?

@paulcoffman9514 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know how to calibrate the atlas ph sensor? Running a EZO carrier over I2C.

@AlteredGamersSA 2 жыл бұрын

awesome video as always :) Question, if you're not using node red for the automation, what are you using?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I'm using the automation functionality built into Home Assistant.

@wickedwastelander2410 Жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener can't wait for the video on this! You rock!

@andychavez 2 жыл бұрын

Can you use a power tablet to automate everything using home assistant? I was just thinking that a good tablet has the computing power just like a raspberry pi but minimizing the foot print and cost. BUt I cant wait for the next one! I know the next one will be good. I hope that in the next video you can enlighten us what is the end product of your automation (what are your going to automate, what you cannot, and maybe what can you automate in the future).

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Check out the this page for info on what you can run H.A. on: www.home-assistant.io/installation/ Thanks for the feedback regarding the automation goals. I'll make those clearer.

@sebby007 2 жыл бұрын

After weeks of aches and pains I gave up on Pi with SSD & HASSIO and went the intel route. No hickups ever since. It'll be interesting to see what your experience is.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

What were the aches and pains? Mines been running smoothly for months .

@sebby007 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener It crashed and wouldn't boot with no rhyme or reason to it, no errors to debug. Looking around in the forums lots of people abandoned their pis for continued use so that's what I did as well. This was about a year ago. I don't even remember if it was a pi3 or pi4. Maybe the pi3 was the issue? It worked ok on an sdcard for a while but that's not a reliable setup it seems. I'm happy with my old HTPC as host. Glad to hear that your experience with a pi4 is positive.

@MilestoneGarden306 2 жыл бұрын

So now I gotta buy more hardware so I don't botch my ~380 garden plants.....well surely I will. How long will an SD card last? I just got my monitoring and basic control up and running but I can't have lights turning off and pushing things into flowering. I also need to figure out a better watering solution. It's so time consuming.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Holy hell, big operation! I have not yet been burned by a failed microSD but I've read some horror stories.

@MilestoneGarden306 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener it's actually quite a small cabinet, 5'x2'x6'. Holds all my garden plants from seed until hardening off. Works well.

@wurzermichael 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Running an ssd on the 3b+. I actually was having “bootleg” sd cards die on me. Now share that pcb design!! 💚 Sending good vibes your way man!

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

The 3B+ can actually do decently well with an SSD, I've found! I have been swapping all my gear around as I make this series so I've tried a few different permutations of Pis and storage. As for the PCB, I'll get there soon :D

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to get home assistant to work behind an NGINX proxy itself. I can't seem to login, it tries to log me in using google, and it fails to work. :(

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Hoo boy. If it's not done in the add-on, I have no idea what an actual setup looks like.

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener shoot. Well I've been trying to get it working for months, and I can't get it. Their web backend is absolutely terrible when it comes to best practices, so its a nightmare to use it any other way than their "ideal setup". Or just giving complete control to it for my entire local networks web services.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew more about networking to be of help but alas

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener nah. It's cool man. I hope you get all the support you need to go full time and support your families future!! They'll be fed for sure! ;)

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

“DAD, CHILL WITH THE ZUCCHINIS, GOD” - “There’s 6 more on the plant and I’ll be DAMNED if they go to waste… now eat your zucchini pizza”

@Tyrone-Ward 2 жыл бұрын

What do you do for a living?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Dang it. Re-uploaded to fix a mistake.

@bigyote 2 жыл бұрын

A lot less expensive and more flexible to DIY set up a NodeMCU or WeMOS microcontroller with sensors, code them in Arduino, and write a simple web page in JS to display the results. The only thing my Raspberry Pi does is operate as a MySQL database server to record the results.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Less expensive, sure. Easier to code it all and build a website? Hmm…