/* Soil Mositure Basic Example
This sketch was written by SparkFun Electronics
Joel Bartlett
August 31, 2015
Basic skecth to print out soil moisture values to the Serial Monitor
Released under the MIT License(http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
*/
int val = 0; //value for storing moisture value
int soilPin = A0;//Declare a variable for the soil moisture sensor
int soilPower = D7;//Variable for Soil moisture Power
int ledPin = D2;
int buttonPin = D3;
int buttonState = 0;
int previousState = 0;
//Rather than powering the sensor through the 3.3V or 5V pins,
//we'll use a digital pin to power the sensor. This will
//prevent corrosion of the sensor as it sits in the soil.
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600); // open serial over USB
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(soilPower, OUTPUT);//Set D7 as an OUTPUT
digitalWrite(soilPower, LOW);//Set to LOW so no power is flowing through the sensor
Particle.variable("buttonState", buttonState);
}
void loop()
{
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
digitalWrite(ledPin, buttonState);
if(buttonState == HIGH && previousState == LOW)
{
//do something
Serial.print("Stop it");
Particle.publish("stopIt", "HIGH");
}
else
{
Serial.print("Soil Moisture = ");
//get soil moisture value from the function below and print it
Serial.println(readSoil());
//This 1 second timefrme is used so you can test the sensor and see it change in real-time.
//For in-plant applications, you will want to take readings much less frequently.
delay(1000);//take a reading every second
}
previousState = buttonState;
}
//This is a function used to get the soil moisture content
int readSoil()
{
digitalWrite(soilPower, HIGH);//turn D7 "On"
delay(1000);//wait 1000 milliseconds
val = analogRead(soilPin);//Read the SIG value form sensor
if(val < 1000)
{
Particle.publish("soilDry", "HIGH");
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
}
else
{
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
}
digitalWrite(soilPower, LOW);//turn D7 "Off"
return val;//send current moisture value
}
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