Talking and reporting flower

I started this to learn to program arduino but it escaled pretty quicly.when i was finished with the project i had a flowersensor that reported to home assistant and i was able to chat with the data thru telegram.

Hardware I used:

• Raspberry PI 2
• Arduino UNO R3 sensor kit
• Transcend Micro SD HC 16GB 16G 45MB/SEC Premium Class 10 C10 U1 UHS1 Memory Card
• Wireless USB Adapter LAN Wifi Dongle f. Raspberry Pi 802.11b/g/n 150Mbps
• 3.1A Dual USB Port Wall Home Travel AC Charger Adapter
• 3pcs Raspberry Pi 2 Aluminium Heatsink Kit Self Adh
• Micro USB Power Supply Charging Cable With ON/OFF Switch

Sensors:

• Photo Resistor
• LM35 Temp Sensor 
• PIR Motion Sensor
• DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor
• Soil humidity sensor

Just connect them as described in code and in the datasheets for the sensors.


Getting started with the electronics and the arduino:

#include "DHT.h"
#define DHTPIN 7    
#define DHTTYPE DHT11
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE);
int humidSensorPIN = 0;
int lightSensorPIN = 1;
int tempSensorPIN = 2;

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  dht.begin();
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.print("Soilhumidity:");
  Serial.println(analogRead(humidSensorPIN));
  Serial.print("Light:");
  Serial.println(analogRead(lightSensorPIN));
  int tempratureVal;
  int tempratureDat;
  tempratureVal = analogRead(tempSensorPIN);
  tempratureDat = (125 * tempratureVal) >> 8;
  Serial.print("TempratureRes:");
  Serial.println(tempratureDat);
  float h = dht.readHumidity();
  float t = dht.readTemperature();
  float f = dht.readTemperature(true);
  if (isnan(h) || isnan(t) || isnan(f)) {
    Serial.println("Failed to read from DHT sensor!");
    return;
  }
  Serial.print("AirHumidity:");
  Serial.println(h);
  Serial.print("Temperature:");
  Serial.println(t);
  byte sensorPin = 6;
  byte state = digitalRead(sensorPin);
  Serial.print("Presence:");
  Serial.println(state);
  delay(5000);
}

This makes the aruino pump the following data out to the usb connector to the raspberry.

Light:137
TempratureRes:20
AirHumidity:23.00
Temperature:21.00
Presence:0
Soilhumidity:0

Now I connected it to the raspberry pi and wrote this python script. Notice you might change the usb serial port, if may vary from raspberry to raspberry. Mine is as you can see ttyACM0 The script reads the data and parse and send it to my mqtt server. this code use a bit of CPI so you might play around with the time.sleep(1) command to optimize for you system.

---- start arduino.py ----
#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import serial
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
connected = False
# Establish the connection on a specific port
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600)
mqttc = mqtt.Client()
mqttc.username_pw_set("mqtt", "mqtt")
mqttc.connect("localhost", 1883,60)
## loop until the arduino tells us it is ready
while not connected:
    serin = ser.read()
    connected = True

while 1:
    if ser.inWaiting():
        x=ser.readline().decode("utf-8")
        if str(x[:6])=="Light:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/light",str(x[6:8]));
        elif x[:14]=="TempratureRes:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/tempratureres",str(x[14:16]));
        elif x[:12]=="AirHumidity:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/airhumidity",str(x[12:14]));
        elif x[:12]=="Temperature:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/temperature",str(x[12:14]));
        elif x[:9]=="Presence:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/presence",str(x[9:10]));
        elif x[:13]=="Soilhumidity:":
            mqttc.publish("home/office/soilhumidity",str(x[13:16]));
        else:
            print (x)

time.sleep(1)           
ser.close()
---- end arduino.py ----

Now I have the data in mqtt I can connect Home Assistant(HASS) to the read the data.  HASS is a really good framework to have for you iot projects as it's very flexible as you can see later. add the following lines in the configuration.yaml file to read the sensor data from mqtt.

mqtt:
  broker: 127.0.0.1
  port: 1883
  client_id: home-assistant-1
  keepalive: 60
  username: mqtt
  password: mqtt

sensor 3:
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "home/office/light"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/light"

sensor 4:
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "home/office/temperature"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/temperature"
  unit_of_measurement: "c"
 
sensor 5:
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "home/office/presence"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/presence"
 
sensor 6:
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "home/office/soilhumidity"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/soilhumidity"
 
sensor 7:
  platform: mqtt
  unit_of_measurement: "%"
  state_topic: "home/office/airhumidity"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/airhumidity"
 
sensor 8:
  unit_of_measurement: "c"
  platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "home/office/tempratureres"
  qos: 0
  name: "home/office/temperatureres"

Now you get something like this in HASS.
HASS now provides you a easy way to read JSON data from it. So i wrote a python script to read the data and talk to telegram for input and output.

--- start telegram.py ----
import time
import datetime
import telepot
import json
from requests import get
headers = {'x-ha-access': 'raspberry','content-type': 'application/json'}
def handle(msg):
    chat_id = msg['chat']['id']
    command = msg['text']    elif command == '/time':
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, str(datetime.datetime.now()))
    elif command == '/how you doing?':
        url = 'http://localhost:8123/api/states/sensor.mqtt_sensor'
        response = get(url, headers=headers)
        tmps = str(response.text)
        d = json.loads(tmps)
        temp= d['state']
        bot.sendMessage(chat_id, 'I feel great! my temp is ' + temp + 'c')
bot = telepot.Bot('--- BOT API ---')
bot.message_loop(handle)
print ("I am listening ...")
while 1:
    time.sleep(10)--- end telegram.py ----

Insert the BOT API code you get from bot father. Now you can start chatting with your new bot. It's easy to add new commands to the bot if you want to build more logic around it.

Disclamer: I'm not a python/c programmer so this code could/should be optimized.