betabar
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The saga continues. Hour god knows what. Hate me if you want but I rock kitchen scissors all day.
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I always find myself excited at harvest but agonizing after a couple hours. Is this still too wet? Too dry? Is that mold? OMG I found a seed! So much larf! Wtf?
Then it all feels better on the final round. Does anyone else feel the same uncertainty and anxiety at harvest and trim time? The excitement has returned for the final cleanup.
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betabar posted an update 2 weeks ago
Glad to join and look forward to learning and growing with everyone. Watching the latest on YouTube and the 20 hour day is interesting. In the navy, submarines run an 18 hour day a lot of times. No natural light for months at a time, so why be bound by the sun? Programming a raspberry pi for 20 hour light cycle control would be pretty simple.…
burnme4204 Comments-
If all you want to do is control the lights, get a timer from Amazon that is built to do that. Unless you are making sure to match your amp draw with an appropriate relay that can handle it, then the draw could melt your system when you have lights running, and whatever else you are looking to control. Otherwise the R PI is a bit overkill.
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Can you link one? I agree not everyone has spare R Pi laying around, but I’m not aware of anything operating on a 20 hr base cycle. And R Pi can control everything, not just lights
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Can’t post the links(?), I keep getting an error, but all I did was search google for raspberry pi garden controller. Github has the GardenPI source available, as well as piGarden, Pigrow, and GardenPIO. The project on Instructables shows the components, wiring, and build, along with video on youtube.
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Right on, for some reason I only saw the first half of your comment. I would totally go to github first, but have written some clock managing code that I think could be modified to reduce everything from a 24 hr day down to 20 if needed. I was only commenting on the light because that’s what the guys mentioned in the video but in the back of…
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