albaniac / autowater

ESP8266 software to control plant watering module

AutoPlantWater

Auto Plant watering module for esp8266

Construction details at https://www.instructables.com/id/Battery-Powered-Plant-Watering/

Features

• Neat self contained unit with reservoir and attached electronics
• Battery powered (rechargeable LIPO) with inbuilt charger
• Very low quiescent current (< 20uA) for long battery life
• Efficient pump only turned on for short periods again giving good battery life.
• 3 watering modes
• Regular intervals
• Automatic based on soil moisture sensing
• Weekly schedule
• Normally the module sleeps between watering times but can be turned into a non sleep mode for checking and configuration
• Schedule, status and configuration data from web interface​
• Software can be updated via web interface
• Low cost

Library details - wkEvents

This uses a simple library to organise events on a weekly schedule. Each event has a time consisting of day,hour,minute and second, together with an event number 0-255 Any number of events can be set up. To use add the library and then declare an instance of the wkEvents class wkEvents wkSchedule;

The following calls amy be made to this object

• loadEvents(Stream &streamEvents) - load events from a stream like an open file
• saveEvents(Stream &streamEvents) - save events to a stream like an open file
• clearEvents - clear out events from schedule, 1 is left midnight on 1st day event 0
• getEventCount - returns count of events in the schedule
• addEvent(int eventCode, int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute, int iSecond) - add 1 new event or replace existing one
• deleteEvent(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute = 0, int iSecond = 0) - delete an existing event
• getEventIndex(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute = 0, int iSecond = 0) - returns index of matching event or -1 if not found
• getSecondsToNext(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute = 0, int iSecond = 0) - returns seconds to next event
• getEventCode(int index) - returns event code for an index
• getEventCode(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute = 0, int iSecond = 0) - returns eventCode for a time
• getEventSeconds(int index) - returns seconds for an index
• getEventString(int eventIndex) - returns CSV eventString for an index
• checkChange(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute, int iSecond) - returns eventCode if different period to last time called or -1
• getWeekSeconds(int iDay, int iHour, int iMinute, int iSecond) - returns seconds for a specified time