My kit arrived and worked exactly like the video demo after I downloaded the code but I encountered 2 problems rite away. The EcoDuino Kit, will it perform functions with a Externa...
JaneYu 2017-01-08 01:26:31 9 Views22 Replies My kit arrived and worked exactly like the video demo after I downloaded the code but I encountered 2 problems rite away. The EcoDuino Kit, will it perform functions with a External Power supply alone with out the USB cable connected?
1.) When the USB is disconnected the EcoDuino does not work with the external power supply, 'batteries', alone.
2.) I dont see any tutorials for the wireless interface. and I cant find any links to Xbee tutorials for EcoDuino,
UPDATE: Free Life 'Leonardo' board quit taking uploads and stopped working on day 2. The external power source has to be spot on. The code for this kit downloads on a single line file and is very complex to turn on a pump. Hydro watering system wore out batteries 1st day. Soil plants wore out more batteries on day 2.
Yeah, it's a whole kit. You could follow the step that we provide in the wiki and the language is Arduino C which is a popular lauguage.
JaneYu Why does the humidity sensor software always show a checksum error?
JaneYu Hey Lisa,
This is most likely caused by a reading error between the sensor and the arduino. Could you provide us with a picture of the exact setup you have or double check all your connections and code matches the wiki for the humidity sensor. Thanks.
Yes, you will get 1 moisture sensor and 1 DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor in this kit. For more sensors, you can search key words in the shop and order seperately.
JaneYu Yeah, usage is straight forward. You need the adapter. When programming, the only thing to be aware is the inherent asynchronicity of the two controllers (ESP and Arduino), which depending on your requirements may not be so trivial - unless you program a synchronous handshake protocol which slows down both micros considerably. I am still working on the best possible solution and may share it later.
JaneYu Hello, is it possible to add a pH sensor (for the soil) and a CO2 sensor (from air)? Has anyone already tried this?
JaneYu Thanks. Do you sell connectors for water tube? How long is the water tube included in this kit? I have more than one plant to water :P
JaneYu We don't sell the tube separately, the tube is about 1m and its inner diameter is 7mm, you can look for this kind soft tube in your local store.
Hello,
I am not a software developer, i did not create or sell this kit. I only bought it to water my plants .I just need the code which allows me to test the pump 5 seconds every 24 hours but serial printing every second the data of all sensors. Thank you.
JaneYu Corrosion of the Moisture Sensor (SEN0114) after 2 months of use in a pot with ECODUINO, data sent is SOIL MOISTURE 0 so the pump emptied the whole water tank, water everywhere :( , so unreliable because of this sensor https://uploads.disquscdn.c... .
JaneYu Danut, thanks for sharing this experience. It looks like we need to build a fail-safe element into the program. Shutting down the pump when it is ON for too long might be an option.
Thank you for the answer :( lol i finally burned the small oled display by reversing polarity. It must by an universal adapter with display to print the serial monitor data received via micro usb from any arduino device.
JaneYu I am so sorry that I checked the schematic and found that the I2C is exist, it is the carbon sock. https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I've just started playing with this kit. I had a minor problem up front: the AutoWatering library mistakenly includes "arduino.h" (lowercase) instead of "Arduino.h" (capitalized). That was easy enough to fix, and now the example programs compile and the soil moisture sensor successfully generates readings. However, I'm getting a read error from the DHT. I inserted some debugging code into the DHT library to figure out what was happening and determined that it is consistently receiving a value of 0 when the DHT is attached and 1 when it is not, but it always times out (the counter reaches 255 and it breaks out of the loop in DHT::read) without detecting a transition. I have not been able to get any data from the DHT.
JaneYu i'm researching the ecoduino. interested to know how yours is running 5 months later. thx
