/roslynka

A toy project to learn hardware sensors with my kids

Primary LanguagePython

Roslinka

A toy project for monitoring the humidity levels of the plants. The project is based on a raspberry pi, with Adafruit STEMMA Soil Sensor connected to it.

The Raspberry pi is running the latest dietpi image, with python3 and poetry installed. The project is using the Adafruit CircuitPython library to read the sensor data.

Alerting is done via pushover.net

Setup and Dependencies

Following system-wide packages must be installed on the Raspberry Pi (on dietpi OS):

apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
  build-essential \
  rpi.gpio-common \
  i2c-tools \
  libgpiod-dev \
  python3 \
  python3-rpi.gpio \
  python3-libgpiod

pip install uv