Hi all, I had just read the thread about Open Source software and I couldn´t resist to tell you about something amazing that recently appears.
I was creating my first hydroponic system and I spend lot of time looking for something to control water tank and fertilizers. I founded something called Open Grow and after stay 30 minutes on their site I discovered exactly what I was looking for years.
This guys from Open Grow created a modular robot to control any kind of culture system. It seems they are a Start-up because their products are in Beta, it remembers me like my Oculus Rift when I bought it
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I pre-ordered my kit instantly because all similar systems I founded, costs double for less functionalities.
So they sent me the software that actually is in beta, but in their mail they explained me that I will recive it next month and with a final release software.
And I would to talk about what is behind the scene.
So, after spending a year looking for a good control system I found something with universal capacities.
Open Grow is a Startup that made a growing robot with the ability to be adapted to all kind of systems because of its modular configuration. Actually I´m starting with Aeroponics and I wanted to control my water tank and fertilizing.
By the mail they sent to me, I can connect all kind of outputs and imputs like water level sensors, buttons, temp/humy sensors, lamps, water pumps, valves...
I found their site in an Facebook add and after read their site and ask them some questions, I had the confirmation that this system destroy the others like grotronix and whatever...
I started to make an Arduino project but I was really frustrated because of front end software. I made lot of time to code it and I arrived to turn on and off my lamps. But with their brain "GroNode" now I can connect my Arduino to it and with firmware they provide I can control my outputs and inputs from their software.
Here what I found about that: UserBot
So, let me know, what do you think about this system ?
Now I would like to show you a little part of software that surprised me a lot. Basically because is totally different to all I already saw like grotronix and others...
I can create Areas and grows inside those Areas. So that is much more easy to supervise my plants if I have different species.
I want to show you how easy was to create a schedule. First I choice what kind of schedule I want to create. I take by example an irrigation one.
Visually it surprised me a lot because all application is full of illustrations who makes really easy to configure all system without a guide or a manual with 200 pages.
After that I choose my water pump for my hydro system. In this image there is only an Area and a Grow, but it´s possible to put this schedule whatever we want if we have more than one growing space.
Grow Stages is a long story hahaha. I could explain it better in other post because it´s a fine idea that they created to jump automatically between stages without reconfigure all our parameters. It´s good because it saves me time and next time I will grow the app will keep all my informations I already used and it will be automatic from first day.
So, this is a part to register this schedule in a stage and save it for next time.
I was creating my first hydroponic system and I spend lot of time looking for something to control water tank and fertilizers. I founded something called Open Grow and after stay 30 minutes on their site I discovered exactly what I was looking for years.
This guys from Open Grow created a modular robot to control any kind of culture system. It seems they are a Start-up because their products are in Beta, it remembers me like my Oculus Rift when I bought it
.I pre-ordered my kit instantly because all similar systems I founded, costs double for less functionalities.
So they sent me the software that actually is in beta, but in their mail they explained me that I will recive it next month and with a final release software.
And I would to talk about what is behind the scene.
So, after spending a year looking for a good control system I found something with universal capacities.
Open Grow is a Startup that made a growing robot with the ability to be adapted to all kind of systems because of its modular configuration. Actually I´m starting with Aeroponics and I wanted to control my water tank and fertilizing.
By the mail they sent to me, I can connect all kind of outputs and imputs like water level sensors, buttons, temp/humy sensors, lamps, water pumps, valves...
I found their site in an Facebook add and after read their site and ask them some questions, I had the confirmation that this system destroy the others like grotronix and whatever...
I started to make an Arduino project but I was really frustrated because of front end software. I made lot of time to code it and I arrived to turn on and off my lamps. But with their brain "GroNode" now I can connect my Arduino to it and with firmware they provide I can control my outputs and inputs from their software.
Here what I found about that: UserBot
So, let me know, what do you think about this system ?
Now I would like to show you a little part of software that surprised me a lot. Basically because is totally different to all I already saw like grotronix and others...
I can create Areas and grows inside those Areas. So that is much more easy to supervise my plants if I have different species.
I want to show you how easy was to create a schedule. First I choice what kind of schedule I want to create. I take by example an irrigation one.
Visually it surprised me a lot because all application is full of illustrations who makes really easy to configure all system without a guide or a manual with 200 pages.
After that I choose my water pump for my hydro system. In this image there is only an Area and a Grow, but it´s possible to put this schedule whatever we want if we have more than one growing space.
Grow Stages is a long story hahaha. I could explain it better in other post because it´s a fine idea that they created to jump automatically between stages without reconfigure all our parameters. It´s good because it saves me time and next time I will grow the app will keep all my informations I already used and it will be automatic from first day.
So, this is a part to register this schedule in a stage and save it for next time.
