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Real Time on ESPresso Lite V2.0 +LCD Display

A project log for Smart Agriculture

We're working on a flexible set of tools for agriculture indoors and outdoors, both for gardens and farms.

progressthProgressTH 05/16/2016 at 15:230 Comments

May 16, 2016 | ProgressTH This is actually a project for an unrelated workshop, but the ability to hook up an Arduino to the Internet, get the real time, and even interface with Google Calendar could give garden/farm projects an extra degree of dynamic automation.


Cheap ESPresso Lite v2.0 boards can run simple projects like fish feeders, relays for water pumps and solenoids, and even for collecting and relaying data. There could be a way to program a Raspberry Pi to run everything centrally, and then you won't need a real time since its built into the Pi, but if you want something more decentralized, this might be a solution.

We got the ESPresso Lite hooked up to to the Internet and displaying the time accurately. The next step is to hook it up with a client online that can be used to dictate alarms, timers, and switches of different kinds.

The code for the basic real time function is in the files section and is modified, based off the code found here.

Using real time to activate garden/farm automation is next. Setting and resetting timers and alarms over the Internet will be the final step.

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