TODO: update monitor.py
Designed as a tiny valet for your plants, Grow HAT mini will monitor the soil moiture for up to 3 plants, water them with tiny pumps, and show you their health on its small but informative screen. Learn more - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/grow
Also includeds discord integration.
You're best using the "One-line" install method.
curl -sSL https://get.pimoroni.com/grow | bash
Note report issues with one-line installer here: https://github.com/pimoroni/get
- Install Discord Tools:
pip install -U discord.py
- Install Dotenv:
pip install -U python-dotenv
- Place your Discord Bot Token from the Discord Developer Portal into the '.env' file.
- Finally, add your Discord channelID to the monitor.py file.
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/grow-python
cd grow-python
sudo ./install.sh
Note Raspbian Lite users may first need to install git: sudo apt install git
- Install dependencies:
sudo apt install python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-yaml python3-smbus python3-pil python3-spidev python3-rpi.gpio
- Run
sudo pip3 install growhat
Note this wont perform any of the required configuration changes on your Pi, you may additionally need to:
- Enable i2c:
sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0
- Enable SPI:
sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0
- Add the following to
/boot/config.txt
:dtoverlay=spi0-cs,cs0_pin=14
You should read the following to get up and running with our monitoring script:
- GPIO Pinout - https://pinout.xyz/pinout/grow_hat_mini
- Support forums - http://forums.pimoroni.com/c/support
- Discord - https://discord.gg/hr93ByC