Edyn looks like an impressive product. I would love to see the knowledge being gained from farms around the world being shared with the open source commons. It's scary to think what would happen if we all depended on Edyn and then they disappeared.
Edyn looks like an impressive product. I would love to see the knowledge being gained from farms around the world being shared with the open source commons. It's scary to think what would happen if we all depended on Edyn and then they disappeared.
Hi Matthew,
Here's a couple of questions to help narrow it down.
- How many greenhouses?
- Do the greenhouses have power?
- Are they within a mile from a place you have an Internet connection?
- What kind of data are you looking to record? ex. temperature, soil moisture, humidity, luminosity, etc.
- How often do you want to review this data?
- Are you looking for something that alerts you via text message or email when something is sensed outside of parameters you set?
\\ R.J. Steinert
Hi John - I've been working on the [Fido project](http://farmhack.org/tools/fido-temperature-alarm-sends-text-messages) that focuses on sensing temperature and sending text messages when a temperature is detected that is outside the bounds a farmer sets. I'm interested in the need to have more than one temperature sensor and also data logging. We're thinking about adding that to the Fido design but I'm wondering more what certain people use the historic data of multiple temperature sensors for. It may sound like a stupid question and I can guess what you folks might want that data for but I'm interested in hearing it from the folks who need it. Would you mind describing for me what you plan on doing with that data? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks!
\\ R.J. Steinert
@Louis Are you suggesting that the "Fido 2.0" design become a different project under another name or that there should be "Fido 1.0" and "Fido 2.0" Tool entries on FarmHack.net?
@Dorn I agree that there's some organizing that needs to be done on those tools. Currently we have the ability to create new Wiki pages and hyperlink to them. We should maybe try using that approach for now to figure out how we might program more tools on FarmHack.net to make that process somehow more useful/easier.
I organized the Fido tool a bit more today to try to make it easier for users to find what they are looking for.
\\ RJ
Comments
Edyn looks nice, but risky
Edyn looks nice, but risky
Questions for setting up environmental monitoring in greenhouses
Multi-channel temperature and datalogging usecase?
Fido documentation reorganized