{"id":2058,"date":"2025-03-27T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:22:49","slug":"added-garden-temperature-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/added-garden-temperature-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Added garden temperature monitoring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2058\" class=\"elementor elementor-2058\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-41e6473 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"41e6473\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-69af9c2a\" data-id=\"69af9c2a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-106ae9e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"106ae9e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I&#8217;ve finally added outside temperature monitoring for my garden deep bed using a Wemos D1 Mini I got some time ago.\u00a0 The reason is for checking the temperature of the soil for planting soon.\u00a0 The project uses a DS18B20 1-wire probe for earth temperature monitoring AND a discrete DS18B20 for the ambient air temperature. Using battery pack with three 1.5V batteries, the ESP8266 uses deep-sleep mode to conserve power, and (hopefully) for long battery life.\u00a0 <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2100 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4661-rotated.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I&#8217;m temporarily using a cheap small breadboard and occasionally, for some reason, the discrete DS18B20 loses connectivity \ud83d\ude41 , so I got a couple of Protoboards to put this simple circuit on permanently.\u00a0 I still need to figure out a better weatherproof enclosure; right now, I&#8217;m using a couple plastic food containers, one as a rain cover, which works OK for now.\u00a0 I was getting ridiculous temperature readings from the discrete on-board DS1820 &#8211; like 100 degrees F, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s because the late winter morning sun hits the enclosure.\u00a0 I have lowered the platform the temperature monitor rests on, so the sun doesn&#8217;t hit it.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s working pretty well now; I&#8217;m checking the temperatures every 2 hours.\u00a0 Doing so every hour made the chart a little busy.\u00a0 Now to make another one for my little &#8220;greenhouse&#8221;.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally added outside temperature monitoring for my garden deep bed using a Wemos D1 Mini I got some time ago.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,25,28,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-internet-of-things","category-node-red","category-weather-instruments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}