Budget friendly and low-power consumption environment monitoring system with:
Simple soil humidity sensor: https://soldered.com/product/simple-soil-humidity-sensor/
Simple rain sensor: https://soldered.com/product/simple-rain-sensor/
Assembly instructions:
Next we wire the rain sensor to the ESP32
Next we wire the soil sensor to the ESP32
Place the magnets inside their dedicated holes on the lid and case. Make sure you keep an eye on the polarity, removing the magnets is not practical ! Placing the magnets is a little tricky, the holes are voluntarily tight, you will have to apply some pressure.
Glue de rain sensor to the side of the case
Glue the soil sensor to the bottom of the case. The width isn't perfect, you'll need to widen it a little bit by cutting it.
Place the components inside
This is part of a larger project, the code is available here: https://github.com/AN63L/environment_monitoring_network
soil_rain_case.stl | 37.5KB | |
soil_rain_lid.stl | 29.8KB |