Upgrade Your Lawn with a DIY Sprinkler Controller Based on ESP8266
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- In this video, I'll show you how to build a complete lawn irrigation system.
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Love how you go into the details of the projects. That's where I think most people encounter problems and where we definitely can learn from each other. Very professional and excellent work!
I always wonder if the fact that I go into details like this is not boring. I'm glad you don't think so :)
Fajne te projekty. Cieszę się, że w Polsce są ludzie tacy jak Ty! Tak trzymać - nie odpuszczać.
Dzięki wielkie za taki komentarz! Nie odpuszczę :)
You are amazing! I was planning to build my own ESPHome solution until I stumbled across your channel. This is far beyond the quality of what I would have made. Thanks! Side Note - any time I visit your website I have to turn off my firewall because otherwise it blocks your site for attempting to connect to my PC on a strange port. I dont run into this with other sites. You may want to look into that...
WoW!! Thank you!! :) I really appreciate such support for my work!
love your projects as they are very well thought out, real life applications, not the low effort stuff some other people do on youtube. keep up the great work!!
Thank you very much! I try my best NOT to make "low effort " projects. I'm glad you noticed it :)
Wow, the design and features on your board is impressive! We'll done.
Thank you very much!
i already have a smart sprinkler controller but I might make this one just for the fun it. Very good work!
Thanks! Did you do something yourself, do you have a device off the shelf?
@@SmartSolutionsForHome I have a Rachio 2 I bought on a sale. It works really well but it’s just the software that makes it so nice. If I could replicate the smart cycling and weather skip stuff with Home Assistant then I would go DIY.
Such a refined and professional product, great work!
Glad you like it!
Excellent video. Thank you!
This is a beautiful work of art! Just discovered your projects. I love them
Thank you, Paul! Glad you like them! :)
Can you please make a separate tutorial of the lcd screen software? I find it very useful that you're sharing your knowledge to make everyone independent from the big companies. By building things our own, we can maintain it and repair it for a lifetime. So your time and investment in your UA-cam is a true blessing.
I'm glad you find my work useful. Such feedback always brightens up my day :)
As for a separate video about Nextion displays - SURE! There haven't been any questions about it before, but since it's come up, I'll add that topic to my "to do" list.
Awesome video, looks great, well done all around, I think you’re going to be very successful, keep on keeping on
Thanks! I will keep on keeping on :)
Awesome content! Thank you!
Great project!
Glad you like it!
Love your amazing videos!!
Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)
great material!
Thanks!
Great video bro 😍
Cool thing!
Great content 🔥
Interesting! I wonder if can be done something to follow the shape of terrain with the sprinkler...My terrain it is not rectangular and I loose lot of water wetting unnecessary areas...In this way I can place just a sprinkler somewhere and follow the terrain shape. Have you an idea?
what a nice controller... just whised you did 8 relays somehow most rainbird boxes are 8x valves :-(
A lot of people have also asked me why I made only 6 channels instead of 8. Maybe I should consider upgrading? :)
Very nice build! Just what I was looking for. Small question, can I use the board with a bigger Nextion display?
this is video has been so valuable, im busy preparing my irrigation system for German summer, ive build a controller also with a nextion display used some of your code :) ... was wondering, have you used smart irrigation ( i find the german values a little confusing) would love to see your automation for this!!! im planning to use Node Red....thanks again for the inspiring videos
Thanks, Erwin! I'm glad that the video turned out to be valuable for you! :) I'm from Poland, so we have a similar climate, and I'm also gearing up for summer. I can tell you in secret that I'm currently making a DIY Rain Gauge video that will be a fantastic addition to the Sprinkler Controller :)
As for the "smart irrigation" integration, I haven't used it yet. It becomes useful when it has information about the amount of rainfall. However, the information I tried to get from the internet often didn't match reality. That's why I built the Rain Gauge myself.
Nice work … and I have a question … can Esp32 be use instead of esp8266?
Are you asking in general or specifically in this example? If you're asking in general, then yes, definitely. And in this specific PCB, the footprint for ESP8266 is already prepared, so unfortunately ESP32 won't fit.
Hi, I tried to get on the list for when the complete unit is available but I keep getting an error. How can I get on the list?
Again, a very nice project!
Did you made the motion tracked animation (exploded view parts) with Blender?
Thanks! Yes, recently I started to learn Blender and I managed to put together this animation :) I know it's not to impressive, but I just started my adventure with this program.
@@SmartSolutionsForHome It's cool! And welcome to the Blender Community!
Nice where I can able to buy the pcb
Thanks! There's a "store" on my website, link in the description. You can buy the PCB there.
@@SmartSolutionsForHome thanks how much is pcb
Piękna sprawa! Akurat poszukuję rozwiązania do nawadniania. Idealnie by mi pasował ten układ. Czy i gdzie można zamówić zlutowany układ? Ewentualnie PCB? :)
Hej, dzìeki. Możesz kupić samo PCB lub gotowe urządzenie. Możesz też wziąć GERBERY i zlecić wykonanie płytek jeśli wolisz :) Pod filmem jest link do mojej strony. Tam znajdziesz sklep
Chcialem dokladnie o to samo zapytac :)
@@SmartSolutionsForHome
Próbuję dobić się mailowo z zapytaniem. Bede wdzieczny za jakąkolwiek odpowiedź.
Czy planujesz taki sterownik z 8 kanałami ? Bede miał 7 sekcji i kurcze braknie mi na jedną sekcję ? Czy w ogóle jest szansa zakupu od Ciebie ?
Hej, niestety nie planuje póki co robić nowej wersji, ale.. To że masz 7 sekcji/elektrozaworów, nie oznacza, że koniecznie musisz mieć 7 niezależnych kanałów do sterowania. Dużo zależy od Twojego konkretnego przypadku, ale założe się, że możesz podłączyć równolegle dwie sekcje, które i tak zawsze będziesz razem odpalał. Jedynym przeciwskazaniem mogłaby być słaba wydajność źródła wody. Ale nie spodziewam się, żebyś w każdej sekcji miał po 10 spryskiwaczy :) Na mojej stronie jest kalkulator online, który pomoże Ci w prosty sposób określić tą wydajność, następnie zobacz w specyfikacji wybranych spryskiwaczy ile tej wody tak naprawdę potrzebują. I zobacz czy po połączeniu 2 sekcji nie przekroczysz max. liczby spryskiwaczy. Odezwij się do mnie na maila, jeśli będę umiał to z chęcią pomogę. A co do pytania o zakupy: store.smartsolutions4home.com/
@@SmartSolutionsForHome Kurczę szkoda że nie ma na 8 sekcji.... jednak wolałbym mieć możliwość odpalenia każdej sekcji oddzielnie....
A czy możesz gdzieś udostępnic kod softu w ESP i kod do edytora wyświetlacza ?
@@MegaPiotrek1984 To wszystko jest dostępne na mojej stronie. smartsolutions4home.com/ss4h-sc-sprinkler-controller/#source-files
Awesome clip! Word to the wise - it's not a bad idea to hide all passwords, addresses, etc from your clips ;)
Thank you very much! I try very hard not to show too much in my videos :) These addresses and passwords can be shown :)
@@SmartSolutionsForHome Fair enough :) I know I wouldn't want anyone to see my home address on a DHL label on a box of PCBs, but that's me. Then blurring out latitude and longitude doesn't help :) Also, HA and ESPhome have this nifty !secret option I am sure you know.
Either way - I can't wait to see more of your clips. The content is amazing. You certainly inspired me to tackle more things and get back to Eagle now that it's in Fusion.
I think you made a great job on the electronic field but in my opinion to much errors in the sprinkler positioning. To much uncovered space , some very easy to fix with just a better positionig and some extra sprinklers You should always start from the corners making the sprinkler area overlap. Also I didn't see if you did right but the tubing should always have a circular closed cirxuit if not the first sprinkler will receive full pressure but the last could be weak and even not be enable to rise enough. Also when you count how many sprinkler for area you should leave some space considering about 10/15 safety range Maybe you system will works but if someone will follow your step projecting tubing setup and sprinkler placement could be not have the same success Thank you for sharing and congrats.
Thank you very much for this comment. Constructive criticism is always welcome on my channel :) You sound like you know what you're saying so I don't plan on arguing, well.. maybe just a little :)
Before I started talking about pipes and sprinklers, I made a disclaimer, that I'm not a specialist in this field. In case I did something not quite the way a professional would do.
And I'm aware that additional sprinklers would allow me to cover a larger area. But I was on a tight budget. And I don't think it was possible to get a better result with this amount of sprinklers. But I could be wrong, of course.
What is a "circular closed circuit" ?
Thank you again for this comment! :)
@@SmartSolutionsForHome I am not a specialist too , my knowledge come after I studied a lot for realize my own irrigation system. I 'll tri to explain what i mean with closed circuit. Excuse me but English isn't my first language. Let's consider a tube coming from the water source and closed at the end. Then you put sprinkler along the way. What will happen is that the first sprinkler, the one near the water source, will have a lot more pressure than the one at end. So you'll have different water radius more and more you 'll go farther away from the water source. For avoid this problem usually the sprinkler system are distributed along a circle , the tube start from the water source and end at the water source ,like a donut. In this way pressure and water availability will be the same for all the sprinkler installed along the tube. Anyway great job I wouldn't be able to make such electronic device by myself as you did.