Solar Powered Soil Moisture Sensor

[flopp]

Just wanna update you all how the battery has been since start.
No restart since 1st September.
A few days ago we moved the plant indoor and I forgot to take out the sensor, I moved the sensor outdoor the day after

[Huczas]

@flopp is your code should work with new version of gateway 2.1.1?
Just maked using this tutorial my gateway https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry and I'm getting nothing in debug...

pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d
mysgw: Starting gateway...
mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.1
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.1
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT

In node I used your newest code for gw2.0 - is this because version mismatch or something different in my setup?
Could you update your code to work with new version?

[flopp]

@Huczas
I don't use 2.1, yet. I only use 1.5.1.
I don't have any knowledge of 2.x, so I cannot update the code, sorry

[Huczas]

@flopp just release that @mrwomble was posting that updated code sorry. @mrwomble can you help?

[hiddenuser]

Hello All,
Wondering if any one of the successful implenters would be able to share their soil moisture graphs,both for a day and over months..

[dmonty]

To solve the battery discharge memory issue, could a second battery be added with logic to alternate between batteries and fully discharge one at a time?

[gohan]

Charge memory is a thing of the past, lithium batteries don't have it (if I understood what you meant).

[NeverDie]

@gohan said in Solar Powered Soil Moisture Sensor:

Charge memory is a thing of the past, lithium batteries don't have it (if I understood what you meant).

Except that, if I'm not mistaken, he's presently re-using the NiCd's that came with the original solar garden light.

[Edit: correction: I think maybe (?) he switched to Nimh. I didn't think those had a memory problem. Do they? ]

[Edit2: Maybe he'll "upgrade" to a supercap. :) A soil moisture meter would be a good application for one. ]

[gohan]

NiMh still have some charge memory but not as bad as the NiCd. I got the moisture sensors yesterday I have to test them the next days.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Soil-Moisture-Sensor/32532715392.html

[ricorico94]

Hi,
I started building this great idea of solar powered soil moisture sensor. Not integrated yet in a solar light as above, but still on my desk.
I tested the sensor in salted water and I get a report of 78% moisture : based on your experience, is it normal ? Then I pushed the sensor in a very humid plant pot and read 71%. I would have expected mroe differenc ecompared to salted water.
So, would you advise to caliber ? I guess I could modify the calculation formula in the script..

Precisely, is it possible with Mysensor technology and Domoticz to push to a sensor a new setting (for instance to caliber using Domoticz each different sensor) ?

And another question.. Is it possible to ask Domoticz to show the result of moisure reading in the Weather or Measures category rather than in the Temperature menu ?

br,
Ricorico94