====== GrowLab - Software Defined Growing (SDG) ======


===== Live Episodes =====

==== EP1: Governing Environment ====

We are finally going to start our indoor growlab research environment to experiment with grow assistance, profiling and automation for any crop really. The best term to describe this project really is: Software Defined Growing (SDG). In order to keep the costs low and repeatability high we are using cheap off the shelf (COTS) components and will try to hack around in their controls to be able to control them via esphome, home-assistant and node-red to establish a full governing system to keep all environment parameters within the specified regions for the different stages of plant growth according to the profile we chose to run.

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=== Lessons Learned ===

  * [[lab:growlab:howto-install-esphome-onto-shelly-dimmer-2|HOWTO Install ESPhome onto Shelly Dimmer 2]]
  * Yes you can perfectly dim a heating mat with the shelly dimmer 2
  * Yes you can remote control the Sipder Farmer 4" Fan and the SF1000 via PWM

=== Hardware in this Episode ===

  * Light: [[https://www.spider-farmer.com/products/sf-1000-led-grow-light/|2024 Spider Farmer SF1000 Samsung LM301H EVO LED Grow Light]]
  * Fan: [[https://www.spider-farmer.com/products/spider-farmer-4-inch-inline-duct-fan-with-speed-controller/|Spider Farmer 4-Inch 205 CFM Inline Fan]]
  * Bed Heater: [[https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08HRSYZ6R|iPower 48W Heating Mat 51x51cm]]
  * Bed Heater Control: [[https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-dimmer2|Shelly Dimmer 2]]
  * ESP32 Module for Fan & Light control

=== FOSS Stack ===

  * [[https://www.home-assistant.io/|Home Assistant]]
  * [[https://esphome.io/|ESPhome]]
  * [[https://nodered.org/|Node-RED]]