BuddingtonBear
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I have a Titan controls Spartan 6 and decided to take a punt on the $70 Windows app + interface hardware. The app sucks and only runs on Windows so ....
I've been working on a Node Red 'Flow' that runs on an RPi and replaces the Titan controls app with a Web interface that will display on any web browser. The Node Red code polls the Spartan 6 for status information and plots graphs of temp/humidity/CO2. The Spartan 6 has an RS485 interface and < $20 of parts from Amazon will get you a USB RS485 adapter and an RJ12 breakout board
With a cheap relay 'hat' my RPi also controls 2 Meanwell HLG drivers via the 5V digital control (NOT 110V !). A 3 relay 'hat' costs less than $20
Are there any Stoner Engineers with a Spartan 6 who are interested? I can make the code available on github and provide links to HW I have tested (other HW may work as well)
Note: I'm not looking for 'donations', I don't sell any of the hardware nor do I have any affiliate links. This is a 100% free (as in beer) project I would like to share because I find it useful and other people might too
WebUI graphs Temp/Humidity/CO2 for the last 24 hours. Also shows state of Cooling/Heating/Humitiy/CO2 output. Early in development the RPi was in the grow tent and capturing/displaying images but controlling the Meanwell drivers was more important to me so I dropped that feature
Lights can be turned on/off manually (buttons) or automatically (CRON job)
Meanwell drivers, RPi and Spartan 6
I've been working on a Node Red 'Flow' that runs on an RPi and replaces the Titan controls app with a Web interface that will display on any web browser. The Node Red code polls the Spartan 6 for status information and plots graphs of temp/humidity/CO2. The Spartan 6 has an RS485 interface and < $20 of parts from Amazon will get you a USB RS485 adapter and an RJ12 breakout board
With a cheap relay 'hat' my RPi also controls 2 Meanwell HLG drivers via the 5V digital control (NOT 110V !). A 3 relay 'hat' costs less than $20
Are there any Stoner Engineers with a Spartan 6 who are interested? I can make the code available on github and provide links to HW I have tested (other HW may work as well)
Note: I'm not looking for 'donations', I don't sell any of the hardware nor do I have any affiliate links. This is a 100% free (as in beer) project I would like to share because I find it useful and other people might too
WebUI graphs Temp/Humidity/CO2 for the last 24 hours. Also shows state of Cooling/Heating/Humitiy/CO2 output. Early in development the RPi was in the grow tent and capturing/displaying images but controlling the Meanwell drivers was more important to me so I dropped that feature
Lights can be turned on/off manually (buttons) or automatically (CRON job)
Meanwell drivers, RPi and Spartan 6
