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How to Build an Automated DIY Irrigation System With App

In this article I will show you how to build an affordable automated irrigation system so you no longer have to water your plants by hand. The system can be used for house plants, raised beds, but also for plants in the garden or larger green areas, because the number of connected plants is scalable.
Here, the decision as to when to irrigate is not made according to a timer, but rather the soil moisture is measured directly and a decision is made on the basis of this whether irrigation is necessary or not.
The system has the following features, which can be controlled via the web app:
Monitor and display time series data at the minute, hour, day, week and month levels Setting the water level from which automatic watering should be triggered Setting how long the pump works during an irrigation Manual activation of irrigation with a button Switching between different sensor profiles Switching between dark and light theme”

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