PlantPal/soilReporterNode/README.md

PlantPal

Because knowing when to water your plants is hard

About The Project

I love having plants around but I often forget to water them or how much to water them. So I initially started this project to just check if soil was dry and have a small piezo buzzer go off when a plant needed water. Well things escalated as I wanted to add features and now I'm at the point where it's a multi-system product with multiple moving parts.

Where the project is now

At this point the project consists of:

• Probe nodes that record soil moisture data
• Reporter node that collects and sends the probe data to an API
• An API that serves to both the reporter node and a front-end client
• Front-end client that provides a web interface for viewing the collected plant moisture data.

Where the project is going

The end goal is to have the probe nodes collect soil moisture, soil temperature, relative humidity, air temperature and light spectrum values. With all this information I'm hoping to be able to optimism plant health and maybe even help figure out resource distribution for farming... but that's years down the road.

Built With

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• Angular
• React
• Vue
• Angular
• Svelte
• Laravel
• Bootstrap
• JQuery

Getting Started

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Prerequisites

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• npm

  npm install npm@latest -g
  

Installation

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1. Get a free API Key at https://example.com
2. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/your_username_/Project-Name.git
   

3. Install NPM packages

   npm install
   

4. Enter your API in config.js

   const API_KEY = "ENTER YOUR API";
   

Usage

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For more examples, please refer to the Documentation

Roadmap

• Add Changelog
• Add back to top links
• Add Additional Templates w/ Examples
• Add "components" document to easily copy & paste sections of the readme
• Multi-language Support
  • Chinese
  • Spanish

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See MIT License for more information.

Contact

Your Name - @your_twitter - email@example.com

Project Link: https://github.com/your_username/repo_name

Acknowledgments

Use this space to list resources you find helpful and would like to give credit to. I've included a few of my favorites to kick things off!

• makeread.me
• othneildrew