Recent content by mike91sr

That's really impressive! Digging through now, alot of it is beyond my comprehension but I'd like to pick your brain at some point if you're willing.

Some really great input guys. Obviously as you've all mentioned, reliability is paramount with anything in the garden. I've gone through plenty of timers, sensors and controllers myself, luckily I check the garden every day or 2 so nothing gets out of hand, but when my thermostat went, I found...

So it seems like that is a viable option, exploring it further. Since you said you're mostly interested in the monitoring, what prevents you from getting something like the La Crosse Wireless Monitoring or Monnit for example?

Wow, great! Thanks! I'll look into having each component be able to monitor/control without a central controller. I'm not a tech guy so I'll have to talk to our developer, but I think it might be expensive or bulky to fit long-range wireless capability into each battery powered item. While this...

Thanks for the input!

Have you actually discussed this with any industry leaders? They're not agreeing with you. Not very efficient at all to pay employees to be in ready response mode, but to each his own. Check out Argus, doing very well in industrial agriculture

Good points, thanks for the input! Our target market ranges from slightly higher end but smaller applications to large scale industrial. Anyone running a tent or closet would be spending more on the controller than everything else combined, not very financially viable IMO.

Me neither, which is why I'm not designing this myself. Outsource/insource ;)

The latter, though that doesnt do justice to the concept. Check out the iponic, grobot, agrowtek, etc.

Its about hardware thats controlled by software

As Im sure you know the 90's were a very different time technologically speaking. I understand your point and that reliability is #1 otherwise its completely worthless, but to say software shouldn't to be used because of the possibility of failure would also say we shouldn't land on the moon...

I see your point. I think it'd need to be a modification to the a/c rather than a feature of an separate external component. Not a bad idea at all, much less of a problem than an a/c but I have a digital fan that does the same thing(not in my grow room for that reason) and it pissed me off when...

I like the idea, not sure it's very viable to battery power an a/c from a controller unit though. Better solution IMO is choosing electronics that don't reset when power is lost, quite a common feature. The controller itself, of course, would have a battery backup for such a situation but it...

Yeah, we've included features like that. Simple water detection sensor for leaks, high temp shutoff, etc. & an alert system through the software.

You don't change pH, nutrients, co2, temps, humidity, etc. as your plants go from clone to flower? Not trying to convince you that you need a product I'm not done designing yet or anything LOL, just seems a bit less than optimal to not adjust to plants' needs throughout their cycles. Also, think...