jpizquierdo / draco

An automated watering system to take care of your plants using a raspberry Pi

Introduction

Draco provides a python interface with your raspberry Pi in order to have an automated plant watering system for your holidays or daily. It's compatible with Python versions 3.9+.

Core functionality

• Telegram interface: Logging and commands
• Scheduler interface: Task scheduling
• MQTT interface: to be able to control it from homeassistant or any other MQTT device/service.
• GPIO interface: Control the relay shield interface

Only GPIO interface is mandatory. MQTT and telegram interfaces are optional to be able to control and monitor the system, but not mandatory. Scheduler interface is not mandatory if MQTT or telegram interface is selected. If not, the scheduler will be activated by default and no need to activate the holidays option. It will be working at the interval of config.json. It means that when draco app starts, it will activate water_pump and valve1 at water_start_time_HH:water_start_time_MM till water_stop_time_HH:water_stop_time_MM with an interval of holidays_frequency_days (first execution in holidays_frequency_days days)

Combinations: GPIO + scheduler GPIO + Telegram GPIO + MQTT GPIO + Telegram + MQTT GPIO + scheduler + Telegram + MQTT

Future functionality

• Webcam interface to be able to capture whatever you want and have it send to your telegram account or group.
• Watering plants by moisture sensors.
• Include a temperature and relative humidity sensor.

Installing

$ git clone https://github.com/jpizquierdo/Draco.git
$ cd Draco
$ python -m venv .venv
$ .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

$ ~/Draco/.venv/bin/python ~/Draco/draco.py -c ~/Draco/config/config.json

Getting help or sharing your idea

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License

MIT

draco's Issues

mqtt implementation

There is needed a mqtt implementation to be able to interact with the device from any mqtt device. In this case using mosquitto mqtt broker and homeassistant for home automation and monitoring

Change the telegram library/ telegram interface

It is needed to change the telegram library. Telepot is deprecated and is causing many warning and some blocking in the app and telegram bot (i.e. when changing the details of the bot, add a new member to a group, etc).
Python Telegram Bot (PTB) is in the roadmap due of its popularity, community, development and because it implements an addition over Telegram official API.
https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot