Remote monitoring system for flood and drain system...

Justin Freidman said:

Hey Guys,

How's it going? I have a grow room in a very remote area which I have setup to pretty much run itself I run dual air-cons, dual dehumidifiers, it has a generator, etc. I visit once every week to adjust the nutrient solution and that's about it. I'm very happy with it.

I remotely monitor the whole thing by PTZ cameras mounted inside the tent, fixed cameras pointing at all the monitoring control systems (bluelab guardian, bluelan ph doser, sentinel c02 doser, rh%/temp gauge, etc)

It works very well until today... one of the worst things that could go wrong did - the flood and drain controller died... I checked the camera this morning and all my plants were drooping to hell, it was a mess. They must have been without water for 2 days as I was so busy I didn't check the camera yesterday. Anyway, I rushed over, gave them a feed and they have looked to have mostly recover now.

So it got me thinking, how can I remotely check the flood and drain is working? I'm running 8 buckets all connected on the same water loop, so I only need to monitor one to check.

Any ideas/suggestions?

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Daveindiego said:

Why can’t you put another camera on that?

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Lordhooha said:

Or look around and setup a raspberry pi to monitor the sensors and setup a point to point for the link to get it on your network and have it send you alerts via text or email.

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Jaybodankly said:

Sensorpush- data logger send high/low temp/humidity to your phone. You would have received a text saying low humidity alert once it dropped below your setpoint. Leaks show up as high humidity.

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