Project:Vivarium Monitoring System
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Vivarium Monitoring System - Asc
I needed a system to monitor the temperature and humidity of a vivarium (a tortoise house!).
Requirements
- Have a screen that I can easily see
- Display both temp and humidity
- Beep and flash when things are awry
- Have a way to temporarily disable the alarm whilst working on the vivarium
- 3 Sensors (room, in heat, out of heat)
- The less cables the better
- Be configurable without needing to connect to a computer
- and most of all PUT IT ON THE INTERWEBNETS! (for the world to see, for me to control, and to receive warnings)
Equipment
After looking through my box of parts I decided to use the following.
- Nanode - for base sensor monitoring and internet mojo,
- Using three DHT-11 temperature and humidity sensors, simple and accurate enough,
- A blinkm as a warning light system,
- A peizo to beep,
- A PoE injecter and ejackulator to get power over an ethernet cable,
- Using 3.5mm headphone cables and sockets for the sensor cabling,
- A LAMP backend for long term logging,
- A screen and user interface.
What does this all mean - 3 arduinos = more roarsome = way overkill project!
All that is left is the case which I can magic up on a laser cutter.
Proof of Concept
To see how it all goes I threw a proof of concept setup together without all the internet magic and simply using a vanilla arduino:
YouTube Video
