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compost monitoring sensors
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How HN took it
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful for smaller-scale open compost monitoring
From 2 comments
Love this! Hurray for more comprehensive and extensible smaller-scale compost monitoring. You might find some additional interest from our Gathering for Open Ag Tech community…
sudokita on HNHaha, I actually did a project on this last month with arduinos. Cool to see an open-sourced project for this
ramon156 on HN
Objections
Monitoring only worthwhile at large scale
From 1 comment
Not wanting to minimise your product, it's not something I personally would need. But I'm curious if you looked at what scale of composting would be needed for electronic…
pbhjpbhj on HN
A simple temperature gauge may be enough for hot compost
From 1 comment
I love it, but surely just a temp gauge for running a hot compost is nice & simple? If mine is over 45C, I'm fairly sure that means the thermophiles are present and doing their…
magicbuzz on HN
Requests
Home Assistant integration
From 1 comment
Do you know if anyone is writing a HomeAssistant integration for this?
boredinstapanda on HN
Zigbee radio support
From 1 comment
Sadly, it seems to be Bluetooth only, whose range isn't great unless you already have your garden covered. Probably late to ask, but would be cool if future versions also…
diggan on HN
Questions
Why monitor compost at all
From 1 comment
Why do you need to monitor compost?
lofaszvanitt on HN
Whether gas readings indicate C/N ratio or anoxia
From 1 comment
Thanks for posting! Out of curiosity, could you talk more about the practical utility of the sensor readings you get while monitoring compost? Temp and moisture seem…
wswope on HN
Alternatives named
collectd and Grafana/InfluxDB monitoring stacks
From 1 comment
collectd is an open source monitoring system which can record to e.g. RRD flat files or SQLite and can forward collected metrics to SIEM-like monitoring and charting and anomaly…
westurner on HN
Simple temperature gauges and thermocouples
From 2 comments
I love it, but surely just a temp gauge for running a hot compost is nice & simple? If mine is over 45C, I'm fairly sure that means the thermophiles are present and doing their…
magicbuzz on HNI don’t know how you read my mind because completely randomly I was just looking at thermocouples for compost monitoring.
pipe2devnull on HN