Published May 19, 2019

Plant Monitoring Tutorial (ESP32, Lolin32 Lite, Blynk)

How to build a smart monitoring system (temperature, soil moisture, light level, humidity and air pressure sensors) for your plants.

IntermediateFull instructions provided1 hour5,991

Plant Monitoring Tutorial (ESP32, Lolin32 Lite, Blynk)

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Chirp! CJMCU Plant Watering Alarm Sensor

Lolin32 Lite

Bosch BME280

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Blynk

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Breadboard, 170 Pin

Story

Introduction

In this video I'd like to show you complete tutorial how to build up a plant condition monitoring system based on Blynk platform and ThingSpeak as secondary web interface. For this project we go to use BME280 combo sensor (temperature, humidity, air pressure) and Chirp! capatitive soil moisture sensor with possibility of light level measurement.

Main video