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An agent set up his 100 home sensors and his pepper harvest was his biggest yet

A man let an agent live on his home network and finally get his hundred or so sensors and smart devices configured and talking to each other. This year he set up garden sensors with its help, tied soil, rain and sunlight readings into automated watering, and had by far the largest hot pepper harvest he has ever had.

How it works

  1. The agent works across his home network and gets about 100 sensors and devices configured and talking together
  2. Garden sensors go in with its help, described from the vendor docs
  3. Readings for soil moisture, rain and sunlight are combined to run irrigation
  4. The bot pings him when the next fertilising round is due

Why it’s worth knowing

A job too tedious to ever finish by hand, setting up a hundred sensors, ended with automated watering and his biggest harvest.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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