Garlogeek

Garlogeek is used to add automation and measurement tools in a garden, a greenhouse, a vegetable farm.

• Have an overview of environmental conditions (weather, humidity, temperature, brightness...)
• Release watering time, greenhouse opening, etc.
• Issue alerts

Garlogeek is based on the software "Home Assistant" and "esphome", which are free and opensources.

The idea of the project is to offer, in open source, and with such necessary trainings, validated configurations to allow you to take control of this very powerful suite of tools more easily.

Tools used

Heart

Home Assistant, as its name indicates, allows you to control connected objects via a web or mobile interface.

The main interest is to have a self-hosted solution, without depending on a third party company.

To this "heart" are added devices: sensors, actuators.

These are small peripherals that are geographically distributed, and that emit or receive data.

These devices, based on a very common "esp32" chip, work with the "esphome" micro-software, which allows you to configure them without writing computer code.

Peripherals

A device is a sensor or actuator, or something (e.g. connection to a weather service)

It can be bought "anything" and integrated into HA, or be a custom electronic card.

• in all-featured devices you will find brand integrations (Velux, Google Alexa, etc.)
• Customised or purchased electronic cards use an existing firmware (micro-software): ESPHome.

EspHome allows you to configure the card, following its sensors and actuators, in a simple way (simpler than writing code ;)

Each device therefore has: - A mini brain (a microcontroller, on which esphome runs), which can connect to a WiFi/LoRa network, etc. - connected sensors/actuators