Open Garden

webpages and all documentation under construction, sorry but most of the time is dedicated to develop source code to reach a working condition before the end of the season!

If you are interested in the project feel free to mail me, I will more than happy to have feedback.

blog's tagged opengarden summary

Main feature:

• 8 water line completely independent each other.
• 4 digital input for alarms (stop, rain, high humidity ...).
• Irrigation time based on temperature and wind condition.
• Wind speed sensor to stop irrigation under strong wind.
• 20 different irrigation program.
• Week based programming, which time and days of the week.
• USB connection to PC for easy programming.
• Open source code and schematics.
• Real time clock for future year/month programming.

Status

A prototype as been build and it is under test at live the nature garden center (Italian).

Irrigation program on the 8 lines and a brutal serial interface works.

Todo (want to help?)

• GUI interface (windows, linux, OSX, console, gtk, wxwidget...)
• almost anything you can imagine.

Photo

The first hand made prototype.

Lower side.

Heavy duty interference test.

Download

• Doxygen documentation (not yet available).
• GitWeb, browse the source code (not yet installed).

You can clone the source code with git:

git clone http://tecnobrain.com/git/opengarden/

Credits:

Schematics by Andrea Marabini. Installation and testing by Nicola Galliani.

Links:

• git web repository