Magnus Boden
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Humidifer System
I put in some time to set this up so I thought I would share it in case anyone else wants to do the same.
IT is compromised of these components. It might seem like a lot of work but I had most of this running already since I control other stuff in my home with it.
One Raspberry PI V2 + case
One RFXrec433E USB
Two Proove TSS320 (Thermometer and Hygrometer)
Two Magic Fog (One was not enough to get enough humidity)
Two NEYC-3 (Remote controllable power outlet, only two in the three pack)
Software
Domoticz
There is a image including the linux operating system available from their site. Linux knowledge is beneficial but you get away with mostly just configuring an ip address and small stuff like that.
There are apps for Android and IOS to interface with domoticz from your phone.
In the domoticz webinterface you can control your switches and watch your temperatures. Also there is a dashboard where you can make a blueprint of your house or enclosure in our case.
Setup
1 Power outlet to control the lights
1 Power outlet to control the foggers
1 Thermometer in the cool end
1 Thermometer in the hot end
The foggers both let the steam in at the cold side.
With domoticz it is easy to turn outlets on and off at scheduled intervals but I wanted my lights to follow the sunup and sunsets in argentine with one twist. Sunset is always at 23.00 but the average amount of hours of sun in each month is the same so sunup will be later in the summer months compared to the winter month. This is controlled by an array in my control script. Also the sunup and sunset doesn't just switch from one day to the other (on monthly breaks) it will gradually shift during the month as it gets get closer to next month.
Also the script will check with the Hygrometer from the cold side and turn the fogger on when it is below my humidity target. The humidity target also follows average humidity in argentine - 10 percent (Might increase to actual humidity later if it doesn't seem to hurt the enclosure).
Humidity targets are also entered in two arrays in the script so you specify daytime and night time humidity values for each month. I made the humidity follow a sine curve so it isn't exactly the same the whole day until night time sets.
Domoticz will automatically graph your temp and humidity in graphs like this visible in its web interface so you can check that you always have had a good climate for you Tegu.
Graphs
Only the daily graph is from my current setup the thermometers used to be in other places and my script wasn't in place earlier.
The thick blue part in the montly and yearly graphs are for the min and max at that time.
Cool side
Hot side
I put in some time to set this up so I thought I would share it in case anyone else wants to do the same.
IT is compromised of these components. It might seem like a lot of work but I had most of this running already since I control other stuff in my home with it.
One Raspberry PI V2 + case
One RFXrec433E USB
Two Proove TSS320 (Thermometer and Hygrometer)
Two Magic Fog (One was not enough to get enough humidity)
Two NEYC-3 (Remote controllable power outlet, only two in the three pack)
Software
Domoticz
There is a image including the linux operating system available from their site. Linux knowledge is beneficial but you get away with mostly just configuring an ip address and small stuff like that.
There are apps for Android and IOS to interface with domoticz from your phone.
In the domoticz webinterface you can control your switches and watch your temperatures. Also there is a dashboard where you can make a blueprint of your house or enclosure in our case.
Setup
1 Power outlet to control the lights
1 Power outlet to control the foggers
1 Thermometer in the cool end
1 Thermometer in the hot end
The foggers both let the steam in at the cold side.
With domoticz it is easy to turn outlets on and off at scheduled intervals but I wanted my lights to follow the sunup and sunsets in argentine with one twist. Sunset is always at 23.00 but the average amount of hours of sun in each month is the same so sunup will be later in the summer months compared to the winter month. This is controlled by an array in my control script. Also the sunup and sunset doesn't just switch from one day to the other (on monthly breaks) it will gradually shift during the month as it gets get closer to next month.
Also the script will check with the Hygrometer from the cold side and turn the fogger on when it is below my humidity target. The humidity target also follows average humidity in argentine - 10 percent (Might increase to actual humidity later if it doesn't seem to hurt the enclosure).
Humidity targets are also entered in two arrays in the script so you specify daytime and night time humidity values for each month. I made the humidity follow a sine curve so it isn't exactly the same the whole day until night time sets.
Domoticz will automatically graph your temp and humidity in graphs like this visible in its web interface so you can check that you always have had a good climate for you Tegu.
Graphs
Only the daily graph is from my current setup the thermometers used to be in other places and my script wasn't in place earlier.
The thick blue part in the montly and yearly graphs are for the min and max at that time.
Cool side
Hot side