I have a few seedlings and small plants that require very little water, just a 3-5 ml a day for some and been doing some research into how to automate the watering for these plants for when im on vacation.
What i want is an indoor water container to give water to these small plants on demand or e.g. every 2 days, and be able to control this depending on how the plants looks by monitoring this from an ip cam and when needed connect through mobile/web and give it a shot of water. I have a synology ds1513+ which will be nice to integrate to this x10 system, and maybe be able to add a humidity sensor to the plant also.
I just started researching for HAS's and not sure exactly what i need but I found a small water pump that will suck water out from a container (max 5Liters) and had a look at this:
http://www.siliconsolar.com/shop/solar-store/solar-fountains-pumps/solar-fountain-pumps/
Then something like this to connect the pump to since the pump is low voltage dc, so im guessing this:
http://www.amazon.com/X10-PUM01-Universal-Module-Receiver/dp/B0007N72CY/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_1
I beleive then the universal module receiver will need to be connected to a x10 interface PowerLinc Modem of some kind:
http://www.amazon.com/Insteon-2413U-PowerLinc-Dual-Band-Interface/dp/B002XA8XNQ/ref=pd_sim_hi_10
Would this work? Can anyone suggest any better systems that can be remotely controlled through a mobile/web/etc, and maybe even integrated with synology nas ds1513+?
Cheers..:
What i want is an indoor water container to give water to these small plants on demand or e.g. every 2 days, and be able to control this depending on how the plants looks by monitoring this from an ip cam and when needed connect through mobile/web and give it a shot of water. I have a synology ds1513+ which will be nice to integrate to this x10 system, and maybe be able to add a humidity sensor to the plant also.
I just started researching for HAS's and not sure exactly what i need but I found a small water pump that will suck water out from a container (max 5Liters) and had a look at this:
http://www.siliconsolar.com/shop/solar-store/solar-fountains-pumps/solar-fountain-pumps/
Then something like this to connect the pump to since the pump is low voltage dc, so im guessing this:
http://www.amazon.com/X10-PUM01-Universal-Module-Receiver/dp/B0007N72CY/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_1
I beleive then the universal module receiver will need to be connected to a x10 interface PowerLinc Modem of some kind:
http://www.amazon.com/Insteon-2413U-PowerLinc-Dual-Band-Interface/dp/B002XA8XNQ/ref=pd_sim_hi_10
Would this work? Can anyone suggest any better systems that can be remotely controlled through a mobile/web/etc, and maybe even integrated with synology nas ds1513+?
Cheers..:
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