This project was born from the need to water our garden during the hot summer while we were gone. I was going to leave for a month but our garden was flourishing and still needed water and care even without us around. The idea was to have a dashboard to control our watering system remotely while we were gone.
- Client-side dashboard to control the watering system
- Visible logs of when the watering system is turned on or off in the backyard, front yard or both with a timestamp
- Chart with the temperature of the CPU of the Raspberry PI (I initially wanted to get a temperature sensor, but didn't get to that yet)
- Login mechanism to have access to the dashboard
- Back-end server to expose API endpoints for the client side
- Cron jobs to automate the watering for a set amount of time every day (configurable settings)
- ReactJS Responsible for the dashboard of our watering system
- NodeJS Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
- Express NodeJS framework easing the development of the back-end and API endpoints.
- Python Responsible for the majority of scripts interfacing between the web server and the onboard GPIO pins
- 1 Raspberry PI - I'm using Model 3 B
- 1 Electrical Relay
