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Nice! Capacitance moisture sensor is totally the way to go. I've never ordered up a custom board with all the little SMD stuff. If anyone is making a big batch

Nice! Capacitance moisture sensor is totally the way to go. I've never ordered up a custom board with all the little SMD stuff. If anyone is making a big batch of these I'd love to find a way to piggyback on that order.

mattwdelong 4y ago
Chiming in to day I would also participate in this order. I have a farm and would love to automate aspects of my irrigation and have been looking for something like this. This in combination with soil temperature would be very beneficial.
- godelski 4y ago
  Often these moisture sensors (and other sensors here) can have high rates of error. Just something to keep in mind if you use it in a professional setting. But if they are cheap enough you can probably normalize out the variance and get a better reading.
- iancmceachern 4y ago
  One of these might work for you: https://m.fr.aliexpress.com/item/32689223035.html?html=static&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra https://m.fr.aliexpress.com/item/32689223035.html?html=stati... https://www.amazon.fr/Corrosion-Resistant-Capacitive-Moisture-Voltage/dp/B07SBQL5F8 https://www.amazon.fr/Corrosion-Resistant-Capacitive-Moistur... If not I run www.openagriculturesupply.com amd would love to help find something that does.
  - greggsy 4y ago
    I have a couple of these hooked into an rpi zero to monitor soil moisture under my house. They work, but wireless would be much better.
    - iancmceachern 4y ago
      I should have linked these for you in the first place. They have a whole ecosystem of sensors that are all wireless. https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-S2105-LoRaWAN-Soil-Temperature-Moisture-and-EC-Sensor-p-5358.html?queryID=4791913b1b79d74e445f9c60a3e98084&objectID=5358&indexName=bazaar_retailer_products https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-S2105-LoRaWAN-Soil-Temp...
- spelunker 4y ago
  I just want some for my garden lol
baremetal 4y ago
I would also like to be apart of the order. Automating my farm is high on my list of priorities.
- jomoho 4y ago
  Would you be interested in letting me ask you a few questions about what you would be looking for when automating your farm? I am working on an early stage startup on the topic please contact me at https://uverd.co/contact.html https://uverd.co/contact.html or leave a comment here. Thanks
an_aparallel 4y ago
if your comfortable with soldering SMD - i have ordered PCBs from https://oshpark.com/ https://oshpark.com/ they offer free shipping from memory - really cheap. i got these shipped from America to Australia :) for 1 design - you get 3 pcbs (identical)
morphle 4y ago
I am ordering 10000 capacitive moisture and temperature sensor boards with an microcontroller wired to 100 wifi and bluetooth gateways including labour and programming for around $5 or €5 per sensor. Most of the cost per sensor is labour so could be omitted. If you want to piggyback onto this order or collaborate please send an email to morphle at ziggo dot nl. We can lower the price per moisture sensor down to $1.42 when we order 100000 or more or by dropping labour intensive features. At a shared/combined batch order of 1 million sensors we will drop to $0.30 per sensor. At this point it is economical to have a sensor per plant (or mecanically planted seed). With optional starlink and solar panels and batteries for full offgrid operation. Custom software features in an app for smartphone or laptop with a https://microblocks.fun https://microblocks.fun type programmability and spreadsheet graphs and website output would be optional. We could add microphones and motion sensors to sense rodents or snails or monitor (rain)forest for illegal cutting with chainsaws or poachers.

mattwdelong 4y ago

Chiming in to day I would also participate in this order. I have a farm and would love to automate aspects of my irrigation and have been looking for something like this. This in combination with soil temperature would be very beneficial.

godelski 4y ago
Often these moisture sensors (and other sensors here) can have high rates of error. Just something to keep in mind if you use it in a professional setting. But if they are cheap enough you can probably normalize out the variance and get a better reading.
iancmceachern 4y ago
One of these might work for you: https://m.fr.aliexpress.com/item/32689223035.html?html=static&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra https://m.fr.aliexpress.com/item/32689223035.html?html=stati... https://www.amazon.fr/Corrosion-Resistant-Capacitive-Moisture-Voltage/dp/B07SBQL5F8 https://www.amazon.fr/Corrosion-Resistant-Capacitive-Moistur... If not I run www.openagriculturesupply.com amd would love to help find something that does.
- greggsy 4y ago
  I have a couple of these hooked into an rpi zero to monitor soil moisture under my house. They work, but wireless would be much better.
  - iancmceachern 4y ago
    I should have linked these for you in the first place. They have a whole ecosystem of sensors that are all wireless. https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-S2105-LoRaWAN-Soil-Temperature-Moisture-and-EC-Sensor-p-5358.html?queryID=4791913b1b79d74e445f9c60a3e98084&objectID=5358&indexName=bazaar_retailer_products https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-S2105-LoRaWAN-Soil-Temp...
spelunker 4y ago
I just want some for my garden lol

baremetal 4y ago

I would also like to be apart of the order. Automating my farm is high on my list of priorities.

jomoho 4y ago
Would you be interested in letting me ask you a few questions about what you would be looking for when automating your farm? I am working on an early stage startup on the topic please contact me at https://uverd.co/contact.html https://uverd.co/contact.html or leave a comment here. Thanks

an_aparallel 4y ago

if your comfortable with soldering SMD - i have ordered PCBs from https://oshpark.com/ https://oshpark.com/ they offer free shipping from memory - really cheap. i got these shipped from America to Australia :) for 1 design - you get 3 pcbs (identical)

morphle 4y ago

I am ordering 10000 capacitive moisture and temperature sensor boards with an microcontroller wired to 100 wifi and bluetooth gateways including labour and programming for around $5 or €5 per sensor. Most of the cost per sensor is labour so could be omitted. If you want to piggyback onto this order or collaborate please send an email to morphle at ziggo dot nl. We can lower the price per moisture sensor down to $1.42 when we order 100000 or more or by dropping labour intensive features. At a shared/combined batch order of 1 million sensors we will drop to $0.30 per sensor. At this point it is economical to have a sensor per plant (or mecanically planted seed). With optional starlink and solar panels and batteries for full offgrid operation. Custom software features in an app for smartphone or laptop with a https://microblocks.fun https://microblocks.fun type programmability and spreadsheet graphs and website output would be optional. We could add microphones and motion sensors to sense rodents or snails or monitor (rain)forest for illegal cutting with chainsaws or poachers.