Intelligent watering system Part II – Using Raspberry Pi Zero W’s as additional “Antennas” to extend Jeedom’s Bluetooth range

Spring is back so it is the perfect moment to check if my watering system passed the winter, and reactivate it. At the same time i’ll explain in detail the system I set up with external bluetooth antennas. We will indeed improve our Jeedom test installation for automatic watering, by adding (and actually cloning) some Bluetooth “repeaters” (called the antennas) in order to increase … Read more ...

Automatic programmable outdoor watering system with Jeedom

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to setup an automatic watering system by using the Jeedom automation system, and some equipments to remotely pilot a water valve plugged on a dripping system. the goal is to explain how to control a simple system for now, so that you can extand it depending on your needs, by keeping exactly the same components.

The system here will … Read more ...

Quick tutorial: installing Debian raspbian on a Raspberry Pi (Zero)

I’ll explain here the basic configuration I use on my Debian raspberrys when I use them with Jeedom automation system. We just need a raspberry pi zero, an SD Card (I use 16Gb ones, you can use a smaller one), a 1.5A USB power supply, and a Windows computer in order to download & burn the Raspbian image file on our SD Card. Installing … Read more ...