In order to monitor sensors a long way from the main farm I’ve built a remote sensor gateway using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an old 3G dongle and an NRF24 radio. I’m only using the NRF24 radio as I had some spare here along with some old sensors from previous projects. These can easily be […]
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 […]
After the success of my previous solar powered pump project to supply water to cattle from a stream, I’ve decided to build another one. This time time it’s for an out farm that only has a well as a source of water. There is no electricity at the farm and until now I’ve been using […]
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 […]
This winter the starter on my MF390T had become lazy and was barely starting the engine or even requiring a boost on the coldest Days. I tried a few different 110AH batteries and tested the alternator with a meter, so I knew it was time for a replacement starter. As well as the new starter, […]
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 […]
As a rainy day project I’ve added solar power to our polytunnel to supply water from some IBC’s being used for rain water harvesting and also some lighting. I setup the solar panel inside on the potting bench, just becasuse it was raining, I’ll make a stand to set it up outside later. I used […]
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