Simple scheduler for a Raspberry Pi powered indoor gardener
Download the repository with Git git clone https://github.com/HackerHouseYT/Automated-Gardener.git
or download the zip wget https://github.com/HackerHouseYT/Automated-Gardener/archive/master.zip
If you downloaded via zip, make sure to unzip the folder unzip master.zip
Navigate to into the folder
cd Automated-Gardener-master
Open the file with Vim (if you don't have Vim installed, you can install it with apt-get install vim)
vim gardener.py
Press 'i' to edit
Modify the pin variables if your signal wires are connected to different pins on your Raspberry Pi.
LIGHT_PIN = 20
PUMP_PIN = 12
If you scroll down to the bottom, you can see where the schedule is set:
# Turn water on every 30 minutes for 10 seconds
schedule.every(30).minutes.do(threaded, water, forLength=10)
# Other scheduling examples
#schedule.every().hour.do(threaded, light, forLength=300)
#schedule.every().day.at("10:30").do(threaded, light, action=GardenerAction.turnOn)
#schedule.every().day.at("12:30").do(threaded, light, action=GardenerAction.turnOff)
#schedule.every().monday.do(threaded, water, forLength=30)
#schedule.every().wednesday.at("13:15").do(threaded, light, forLength=30)
schedule.every(30).minutes.do(threaded, water, forLength=10) turns the pump on for 10 seconds every 30 minutes. To change the schedule, you can uncomment some of the scheduling examples by removing the # at the start of the line and changing the time/day. For example, if I wanted to turn the light on for 30 minutes on Wednesday at 2:00 pm, I would write:
schedule.every().wednesday.at("14:00").do(threaded, light, forLength=1800)
After you've modified the gardener file, press esc to exit edit mode, then :wq to save and quit.
Install a couple dependencies before you start the program.
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the program
python gardener.py
Press control-c to quit
Get the current working directory by running
pwd
Copy the path, then open rc.local
sudo vim /etc/rc.local
Press i. Before exit 0, add
python <pwd output>/gardener.py &
Press esc then :wq! to save and quit.
When you reboot the PI, the program should start!