Build Complete Help Water My Plant project

[jonbuder]

Hi folks,
My son and I (he's 8 years old) had this idea for a raspberry-pi powered website which shows a video feed on demand of a growing plant. The Pi also powers and controls a water pump which the users of the website can initiate.

It's come together over the past few weekends so I wanted to show it off and also ask for any suggestions for improvements. It's running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

The website URL is: [Link removed] Please read the forum urle

Please note we don't have a light set up on the plant, so it won't be visible at night here in Mountain Standard Time.

Some pictures of the setup:

Thanks for checking it out!

 

[Insane Potatoz]

The link was removed from the post...

 

[kanewolf]

The link was removed from the post...

Yes, because "advertising" is prohibited. Hence the reference to reading the forum rules.

 

[Insane Potatoz]

Yes, because "advertising" is prohibited. Hence the reference to reading the forum rules.

Yep Yep. I know. Just thought i'd tell the poster

 

[cryoburner]

If anyone's curious, it was very easy to locate the page with a search for "Help Water My Plant" in quotation marks. : P

As a suggestion, you should hook the thing up to a 55 gallon drum. You just know someone is going to want to keep watering it all night long, and they will be disappointed if the bucket runs out of water.

 

[jonbuder]

Didn't mean to go against the rules, but given the website is an integral part of the project, it's kind of just pictures of some electronics and empty words without it. I understand if I can't link to it, though.

I figured the small bucket will be enough because watering it excessively would just kill the plant and make water drip all over my back porch. In fact I was going to look into a way to limit how often it can be watered but haven't gotten that far yet.

Here's a screenshot - thanks to those who tried it out so far. I will try to get the iframe contents centered in the border because I like the look of the green border on it.