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    DIY Grow Control: Fans, Lights, Hydro Pumps, Temp and Humidity

    I posted before I read the last post what you are doing is an order of magnitude greater in professionalism than what I am doing. Great Thread. I scavenge most of my parts and use 12v car relays with transistors driving them and leds to suppress back emf so to see this is amazing.
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    DIY Grow Control: Fans, Lights, Hydro Pumps, Temp and Humidity

    another option if you have more time than money is the picaxe. The boards are not too bad in price but I just use the chips with 2 resistors and a serial port to program. (of course you would still need the relays etc..)The arduino is good and if I had the money I would get one because of the...
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    Free Grow Software!

    Thank you sooo much for your fast reply. There is no handshake right now I just have a pikaxe 18X set up to send the example from the usb weather board datasheet at about once a second.( I have 2 sensors that it reads then displays the readings on an lcd and then it sends the example. The actual...
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    Free Grow Software!

    No, I did the first time I tried and realized that the com port was in use so I closed it and same problem. I unplugged the usb and plugged it back in and same thing and I restarted and same thing. I have never sent data to a computer before only lcd screens. I am using the µUSB-MB5 USB to...
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    Free Grow Software!

    I'm having an issue connecting to my sensors. I don't know how to get herb.iq to connect to my com port. I am sending the example from the sparksfun usb weather board and using termite (a terminal program) I am able to see the serial string.(9600 8-N-1) I tried to install the sensor service...
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    Free Grow Software!

    Thanks for your fast reply! You are too generous! I decided to use the scheme that is in place cauze I only have 1 temp and humid and then 2 light to freq sensors. I see that the cells of data are separated by commas but will herb.iq need to parse the decimals in the temp cells? If there is a...
  7. J

    Free Grow Software!

    Great Program! I was wondering if it is possible for me to create a custom parsing scheme for my data coming from my sensors?
  8. J

    Starting New Bagseed

    Nice job. Try to get the plants to rotate slowly under the light.
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