Brilliant idea for automated grow room.

This is just an idea that i had and have no plans for it in the near future. I just want other peoples thoughts and ideas on it. My idea would be to have a partially automated soil grow by using a small computer to monitor an control it from anywhere in the world. The basic idea would be one computer with many cameras set up to see everything thats going on in the room, computer controlled fan, humidity, and temperature, lighting, as well as watering and maybe nuts if you could find a way to do that. This would all be controllable from the computer which would then controllable from anywhere in the world with internet connection.

you mean like this:

Plant Tender, an automatic plant watering, lighting, and alert system

Originally Posted by elfako

This is just an idea that i had and have no plans for it in the near future. I just want other peoples thoughts and ideas on it. My idea would be to have a partially automated soil grow by using a small computer to monitor an control it from anywhere in the world. The basic idea would be one computer with many cameras set up to see everything thats going on in the room, computer controlled fan, humidity, and temperature, lighting, as well as watering and maybe nuts if you could find a way to do that. This would all be controllable from the computer which would then controllable from anywhere in the world with internet connection.

Already doing this. 1000+ miles away and watered my plants this morning.

i know of an opp like this! my guy is trying to get rid off keys upon keys he a veitnamise guy!

dedicated a whole house to grow!

this is awesome. im glad someone else is doing this because id never get the chance to.

funny....

Lorenzo from this board and I are currently working on developping such a system.


-potlike

nice, I just searched for other people talking about this subject, and one was just started.

I try to get my code perfect when I'm writing a program, so sometimes it takes me a little longer then normal, but I'm hoping it will be useful and very reliable. I think I'll make it open source and sell ready to use hardware for it. I have all the parts sitting around, and can get more at good prices. just a matter of putting it all together. I'll be posting the first demo soon.

what about adding something like this? something else I have sitting around.

Just toss one of these at it. PLC Units Products Or these: Programmable Relays Hey lorenzo, you have a source for pH sensors for full time immersion? Analog, resistive, or 4-20ma output?