Did something super simple that I could have done with drop down menus and numbers typed in. IF it gets above 80 in the seed room, turn on the LED lights. It checks the temp every 6 minutes.
My son's been opening the window a little late. I can tell when he opens it by the data graph where the temp suddenly drops at 2pm or something. Yes, ny son is a data point. LOL
I need to add the outdoor temperature as a factor because if it's 86 outside, it's never going to get below 80 in that room and the LED lights will be on all day. He can turn them off but within 6 minutes, they'll come back on. I'll give him access to the code in case that happens while I'm experimenting. He can change 180 seconds(6 minutes) to 18000 seconds(5 hours) or something.
I can add complexity, compare indoor and outdoor temps, IF temp 1 + 8 degrees is > than the temp 2 AND temp 2 is over 85 degrees, do something. There's no way in the controller web setup pages to do; IF temp1 > temp2.
There's a few things like that for the tunnel that I won't be able to do with the menus, like comparing two or more readings. I need to be able to close the sides in high wind(>35) but if it's 80 degrees or more and the wind's not real bad(<45), only close them 70% of the way so I don't roast things but also don't have so much wind coming in that it builds up pressure. (all numbers subject to change LOL)
If it's nice and cool but raining and gets windy, close it up and turn fans on if it gets too humid. Found another code example that will turn on/off multiple relays at once, based on some condition(s). One little chunk of code will actually be easier and faster than going through a bunch of menus and pages, waiting for popups to open/close,, pages to refresh, click,click,click with the mouse AND do that six times for the four sides and two gable vents.
That reminds me. I need a rain tipping bucket with signal. Rainwise has one for $75 that meets NWS standards for accuracy. Super easy to configure. The tipping bucket sends a voltage pulse for each tip which is 0.01" of rain. Just count the pulses and add 0.01 for each pulse to a running total. Log and it once a day and reset it to zero once a week. Use the numbers to decide whether to water outdoor plantings. It can rain an inch at my buddy's house 6 miles away and not get a drop here so I definitely can't go by what the AG research station 8 miles away records for rain totals.
The wires that go to the little display will just go to a controller instead.
Found that one of my text editors will do syntax highlighting for BASIC, or FreeBASIC as they use. It grays out the comments plus makes a few types of things different colors. It will also collapse sections of code. with the little arrows on the left.
Much better than this
