farmOS provides an API to import sensor data and since I’m already building a farm wide sensor network this looks like a feature I’d like to implement. The farmOS guide https://farmos.org/guide/assets/sensors/ says: “The Farm Sensor Listener module is a general-purpose sensor sub-module that provides a simple “Listener” sensor type. Each sensor asset that is denoted as a […]
Having recently changed electricity plan to one of the new smart meter plans with variable electricity unit price rates, I moved my immersion timer to night time to take advantage of the cheapest rate. This created a slight issue because I also have solar panels for hot water and I’m now heating water at night […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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