1. for showing of my project
2. for learning and suggestions
Going to start small scale in my front garden to see if it works before i waste big money.
Earlier this week i started to rebuild my flower garden in front of my house.
It's tiny but suitable for a small automated irrigation project.
Flower garden dimensions are:
- back to front: 80cm wide and 7mtr long
- left to right: 6mtr long and 120cm deep
- 4 led light controlled by a dimmable KAKU (ACM-100)
Before:
In da works:
After:
Evening:
Irrigation project idea:
Next to my frontdoor i have a water supply which we use to manually irrigate the flowers.
I want to connect a double splitter to use one as water supply for the irrigation and one for other purposes like car washing ect ect.
The water supply for the irrigation still has to be digged right in front of the house from the frontdoor to the left (neighbor side) from where i start with the irrigation system.
Already have some electric digged there as have a powersocket plugged into the wall on the outside for many years now.
The idea is to use wireless moist soil sensor to measure the moist and sent it to domoticz.
From where i write a script or use lua to power on/off the irrigation.
Already ordered 2 Opus xt300 wireless moist sensors (http://bit.ly/1QYcm3s) and hope they arrive soon.
I ordered two because i want to split up the irrigation in two sections.
Because the first section (near the house) has shadow almost all day while at street side has sun all day.
An don't wanna over irrigate a section if it aint necessary.
Hardware needed or in mind:
1. Dripple hose
2. connectors for dripple hose
3. Wall mounted locker to keep all electric dry and valves out of site.
4. 220v Electric washing machine inlet valve (http://bit.ly/1IVdFAV)
5. Some sort of electric switch to control the valve for example a KAKU module.
Electric valve:
I first wanna discuss the electric valve and controlling it.
I was think about a simple washing machine inlet valve.
As far as i know it opens when it has power and closes when the power is cut off, right?
This valve will be situated in the locker out side the house.
As those valves are usinf 220volts current i simply connnct it my already available power cable from my cupboard to the garden in front.
i will use a simple KAKU on/off module situated in my cupboard to get the inlet valve powered on or off.
Whats your opinion on this or do you have some other ideas for other hardware while keeping in mind it should be a low budget domotica irrigation system.
Irrigation:
As for the irrigation it self it is rather simple.
Just create a connector which will fit on the washing machine inlet valve and connect a dripple hose to it.
And put it between the flowers.
Project Pictures:
Coming up when i start building
