Backyard Aquaponics
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Anyone using a computer to monitor temperatures and open and close vents, turn on and off fans ect?

Hi Clifford,

To start off, check out my site at http://paago.org/aquaponics. The greenhouse is all driven with a Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi is configured with some temperature and humidity sensors and a webcam. To track all of the stats, I am using an IoT service called Xively. My next step will be to add some relays to control the greenhouse fan and perhaps a grow light.

I looked at using an Arduino board at first. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to write an Operating system to deal with all of the potential multitasking issues. The RPI has a very thick and rich software stack available and is pretty easy to set up.

Here are some articles on how I configured everything.

http://paago.org/xively/83/measuring-te ... spberry-pi
http://paago.org/xively/81/measuring-relative-sound

I hope this is helpful.

There are many greenhouse automation control systems available...

Basic three stage vent/stirrer/exhaust control systems.. are pretty cheap...