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This project forked from ramkumarkcse/automated-drip-irrigation-using-rasbery-pi

It is an automated system designed to take good care of your plants while you travel for a long time and live in a cold country like me :) The propose is to keep track of humidity levels and once in a while drip some water in your plants if they feel thirst. How the system works The concept is very simple, the system is composed by the following hardware: Arduino (I use the pro mini since it's tiny and you can weld according to your needs) Raspberry Pi as an interface to arduino (read sensors, upload new hex files if needed) Sensors Tiny pump Bucket with water Gardena micro dipping system Android phone to check the status of your plants The whole system is controlled by the arduino microcontroller. It checks the humidity sensors every cycle and sets a variable to true or false in case the sole conditions and amount of water on it. If it's dryi, according to a predefined threshold, it will drip water for few seconds or until the sole turns to hidratate enough. How to use it Import the Arduino file into an arduino IDE Import the android project to your IDE (I use eclipse) Copy the bridge file tcp_server.py into your raspberry Pi and set it up under your /etc/rc.local by adding the following line: (sleep 10;python /path/where/you/copied/tcp_server.py)&