Growthings User Guide

Welcome to the User Guide of Growthings, an affordable, easily programmable table-top smart greenhouse for everyone!

If you are here for the first time and looking to get started on building your smart greenhouse, please go to the Installation page for detailed guide on how to set up your hardware and software.

If you are looking for information on how start programming the electronics, please go to the Quickstart Guide page.

If you are trying to find out how to program a certain device, please click on the names of the sensors below the corresponding image in the table below.

Devices Supported:

Sensors	Actuators	Displays
Temperature/Humidity Sensor	Servo	OLED Screen
Temperature/Humidity Sensor Pro	Relay	LED Lights
Light Sensor	Button	Grow Light Strip
Moisture Sensor	Buzzer

Contents:

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Setting up WioLink boards
    • Fast Guide
    • Detailed Guide
  • Setting up the Raspberry Pi Zero W
    • PiCamera Installation
    • Oled Screen Installation
    • Downloading the Preconfigured Image
    • Writing the Image to an MicroSD card
    • Setting up Wifi
    • Setting up Node-RED App
  • Assembling the Smart Greenhouse
    • Step 1. Connect the grove devices to the WioLink board
    • Step 2. Assemble parts controlled by the relay (fan/pump)
    • Step 3. Software installation
• Quickstart Guide
  • 1. Hardware for the Smart Greenhouse
  • 2. The Software Development Environment
  • 3. Programming the Wio Link board with MicroPython
  • 4. Device Programming with MicroPython
    • 1. Import the corresponding class
    • 2. Create an object referring to the sensor
    • 3. Interact with the devices using the objects
    • 4. Control one device with another
• API Reference
  • sensors - Working with Sensors
    • Temperature/Humidity Sensor
    • Temperature/Humidity Sensor Pro
    • Light Sensor
    • Moisture Sensor
  • actuators - Working with Actuators
    • Servo
    • Relay
    • Button
    • Buzzer
  • displays - Working with Screens and LEDs
    • OLED Screen
    • LED Lights
    • Grow Light Strip
  • iot Connecting with Other Devices
    • WiFi
    • Node-RED
    • Connecting to BC Server