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This thread is a good read! Sorry to hear about the mites though What kind of live monitor were u looking at? I'd love to go that way as well,
thanks man, i've started some cleaning and hope to rid my place of all pests to start the new year. just waiting on my soil crop to finish up and i'll clean it all at once. i'll keep this thread going for the next round!!
i'm going to go with DF robot..
ph probe: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1782.html
EC orobe: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1123.html
temp probe : https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1354.html
brains: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-610.html
you'll also need some sort if display and from what i understand this can be as basic or as fancy as you depending on what you want and how much you spend. i'd like to have a different display for each sensor but i haven't sorted that out yet. i was planning on getting something from amazon or ebay for the displays. Moe is helping me out with this so i don't pick the wrong ones. once i order everything i'll gladly share the links!
they provide all the coding and it's free from their site. i don't have any experience with an UNO yet but it seems pretty straight forward.
the UNO has 6 analog inputs so room for expansion of three more.
this is the code for the ph: https://github.com/DFRobot/DFRobot_PH
and they offer code and tutorials for the whole thing. i was so impressed with all the detail that i didn't even gather all the files and stuff yet. seemed so easy to get from them just following links. i have a tiny bit experience with chinese esp32's so i assume this will be very similar with loading codes. i also didn't look into adding wifi to it for broadcasting local web pages to your personal devices versus using lcd displays but i bet it could be done.
as for enclosures and mounting i was planning on winging all that. Moe Red is helping with most of it and hope to have some multiple displays to show each sensor value. i haven't placed my order yet though. all the stuff i want comes in just under the free shipping amount and i want to shop i bit before i pay $25 in shipping but honestly pretty soon i'm just gonna say fck it and order what i need and pay the shipping.
you gotta check out the badass stuff Moe uses.. https://atlas-scientific.com/
it's legit if you want to monitor and control everything all in one place. he can see every value including history charts right on one screen. it's next level kind of stuff!!!!