A project for automatically taking care of plants in your house.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.

This project is designed to be run on a Raspberry Pi and uses Raspberry Pi specific modules like RPi.GPIO and picamera. As such, it may not run correctly on other systems.

All Python requirements can be found in requirements.txt, but do not have to be preinstalled.

• Moisture Sensor
• Water Pump
• Camera (plugged in via ribbon cable)

The container can be pulled directly from docker hub or you can build it yourself using the supplied dockerfile.

Recommended docker use:

docker run \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v host/path/to/database.sqlite3:/opt/openGardener/opengardener.db \
-v host/path/to/picture_folder:/opt/openGardener/static/img/plant \
-d \
bmswens/opengardener

Installation is designed to be easy, but does require root access.

Before running anything as root, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the commands to be run.

openGardener can be installed anywhere, but /opt is a very good place for it.

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/bmswens/openGardener.git
cd openGardener

Modify the HOST setting in webapp.py to match the IP and port that you wish to host on, or set the HOST and PORT environment variables. You may keep it as localhost if you only plan to access it locally, or are going to enable port forwarding.

bash system/install.sh

After it finishes installing you will need to set up your configuration at http://ip:port/settings before the system finishes setting up the cronjobs.

• Python - Primary language
• Flask - The web framework used

• Brandon Swenson- Initial work - bmswens

This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 - see the LICENSE.md file for details

• My friend, for forcing me to take care of her plants while she's away.