Updated (28/12/21) I have been using Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 3 as a home, garden and farm automation server since 2019, the amount of automations running has increased and the Pi 3 is starting to struggle. In this post I will document my upgrade to the Raspberry Pi 4 but this time […]
In my post about Farm CCTV I discussed adding lighting controls into the video feeds to switch on the lights over calving pens, one issue with turning on the lights remotely is forgetting to turn them off. At the heart of my remote lighting controls is a Sonoff 4CH Pro, I’ve used 3 channels for […]
I’ve been using a couple of cheap 8 channel Flouroen CCTV systems for monitoring calving and general security for the last few years. But I’ve decided to upgrade to Hikvision equipment. The Floureon system served its purpose but there are a few issues that I encountered, The most concerning was the app on my phone […]
I’ve setup a number different types of temperature and temperature/humidity sensors. The types that I’ve used are Ds18B20 temperature sensors and DHT11 temperature/humidity sensors. Ds18B20 The Ds18B20 temperature sensor, comes in 2 packages, a TO-92 and a waterproof probe. The TO-92 is useful for making room temperature sensors but the probe is better suited to […]
For the Sensor nodes I’m using the Stemedu LoRa Radio Node V1.0, these are based on the Arduino Pro mini and have an RFM95 LoRa radio on board, they also have a 14500 battery holder making them almost ready to go nodes. The Radio is connected to the board following the same wiring convention as […]
It’s been a while since I posted, last month was busy with getting the yard ready for cattle for the winter. I’ve a few ideas for the winter months, I’m going to work on building a range of sensors. Some Idea’s I have for sensors are: Temperature / Humidity Sensor for Polytunnel Soil Moisture Sensor […]
In previous posts I used mostly off the shelf IOT devices from Tuya, Sonoff and Shelly, these are great becasue they are cheap and easily integrated into many projects. The issue though when you want sensors for custom applications is there are not many cheap off the shelf options. Thankfully there are a few well […]
This was one of the first Automations I implemented on the farm and it was quite a simple addition. Here is a diagram provided in my Gliderol Motor manual. As you can see there is a single button wiring option, so a simple smart switch with inching can control the door. Alternativly you could use […]
Home Heating might not strictly be farming related but much of this can be modified for all sorts of farming automations, from milk tank temprature monitoring, automatic calf milk mixers to green house automations or frost protection. I Stated off with 2 of theses Smart Thermostats from eBay and a smart boiler switch like this […]
I started a home automation project in Dec 2019 because our heating system was not working correctly and I thought it would be a good time to convert to a smart heating system. Our heating controls were poorly laid out with a boiler time switch at one end of the house, zone valves in the […]
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