Huzzah32 - fHelper

Time ago I did work on a fun project to control the soil of a plant in the office, the fHelper project.



However the project had some problems.

fHelper - capacitive humidity sensor

Time ago I did use a traditional humidity soil sensor (from the Grove family) for the fHelper project and it ended up very badly.


After some search I decided to try a capacitive sensor.
There are many on the market, so I just did pick up one of the cheapest
and easy to have one, from Amazon.


This is a brief review of this sensor.

fHelper on Node-Red

If using Node-Red to handle fHelper an algorithm to handle the alarm is needed.


Here a brief description of the algorithm implemented in Node-Red.
The server is controlling a LED on the client to notify the plant need to be watered.