Darnit, now I'm hungry for pastries.
Arduino Controlled Grow and PC Program - Work In Progress
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AdvancedNewbie
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That reminds me of Brian Regan when he talks about moving to New York, or Boston, or somewhere like that and his room mate asks if he wants to go "halfers on a pie" and he has no idea what he's talking about and they end up with a half Hawaiian half baked apple
Airheadnobody
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man I could really use some pointers from u using visual studio and usb serial to my uno r3
AdvancedNewbie
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Maybe this weekend I'll make a video or something showing you my screen and walking though step by step... I think it might help more people get started.
AdvancedNewbie
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Got my mega 2560 and 16x2 LCD screen. $35 and now I have 15 analog inputs (for sensors) and 53 digital outputs... Damn this thing is a beast.
NewGrower2011
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Another fellow .NET developer here... never done much hardware integration other than a serial thing years ago... Will be watching...
AdvancedNewbie
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Alpha 14 up
- Lots of fixes
- Scrapped the webserver idea; now the program exports all the sensor values to an HTML file which can be hosted by something secure like Apache
- Optimized the GUI for use on a tablet pc as a touchscreen interface
Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinovblab/
- Lots of fixes
- Scrapped the webserver idea; now the program exports all the sensor values to an HTML file which can be hosted by something secure like Apache
- Optimized the GUI for use on a tablet pc as a touchscreen interface
Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinovblab/
AdvancedNewbie
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For everybody that's not a programmer: I've uploaded a simple setup program so anybody can try it now. It includes all the dependencies of the program, in case you were getting errors before.
CaliCaretaker
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this is awesome, i've never seen anything like it.
has anyone ever tried this with a soil grow that you know of?
has anyone ever tried this with a soil grow that you know of?
AdvancedNewbie
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Not that I know of, the project start date was 4-18, so it hasn't exactly been out that long.
This current version seems to be much more stable. I'm going to work on the range of the graphs so you can set a duration (last 24 hours, last 12 hours, last hour, last 10 minutes, etc...) I noticed the memory the program's using slowly increases over time; this is because the graphs don't discard any data and the data refreshes as fast as your computer can loop the update command and as fast as the arduino can send back a response (which happens pretty fast). My plan is to log the data on the harddrive at some interval, say once every 10 seconds (changeable), and discard the information in the graphs to free up system memory. This will also serve as a backlog of your data - that's when it gets really interesting, because then you have some sort of 'scientific' data that you can compare you changes to the 'system' for optimal tweaking and yields! Woo!
Edit: Make sure you run the program as administrator - this will allow the program to update the Values.html file from within the Program Files directory.
Airheadnobody
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wow man im really impressed cant wait to try it and im blown away by the specs of your mega2560 lol whered you get that beast and for only $35!?
JUST DOWNLOADED AND RAN UPDATED PROGRAM LOOKS AND RUNS GOOD SO FAR BUT BARELY BRUSHED THE SURFACE FOR NOW BTW I FIGURE ITS JUST A CERTIFICATE THING BUT HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THIS...
HAPPENED UPON RUN AFTER DL.AdvancedNewbie
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Thank you for this; feedback always helps to make a better program - and screenshots are even better
. I guess I'll have to add that as a dependency for the next installer. That error probably means the program isn't reading the databases at all and you'll have issues... I'll fix it this weekend. The mega was found on eBay ---> "bryl_tech" was the store.
. ps hope I'm not asking 4 much! kiss-assAdvancedNewbie
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I have a busy week ahead, but I'll try my best... I will definitely try to update those dependencies this weekend though.
AdvancedNewbie
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Airheadnobody, do you get that message on every startup? I'm guessing you're running a 64-bit machine. Please let me know - thanks.
EDIT: I have uploaded this installer as a potential fix: <removed>
Please let me know if this fixes your issue, then I will make this the default download. You're going to have to uninstall then reinstall. If you could let me know it would be much appreciated - thanks.
EDIT: Tried it on my 64-bit laptop; same error message so I took the install down.
EDIT: I have uploaded this installer as a potential fix: <removed>
Please let me know if this fixes your issue, then I will make this the default download. You're going to have to uninstall then reinstall. If you could let me know it would be much appreciated - thanks.
EDIT: Tried it on my 64-bit laptop; same error message so I took the install down.
Airheadnobody
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yeah the one i have has error everytime but i havent downloaded the new one yet...
but it seems to run fine i just havent tryed to use it...
but it seems to run fine i just havent tryed to use it...
requiemflow
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This is ur first real post
requiemflow
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This is ur first real post
AdvancedNewbie
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If you're talking to me...? then I'm assuming you say that because there's an installer for this one?
Airheadnobody
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looks like spam to me bra lol anyway did you ever figure out the problem??? I keep watching your thread but no news and ive been working on mine but havent uploaded any new info. I found a power wheels jeep and im attaching it soon... let me know whats goin on...