Arduino (or RaspberryPi) humidors?

chrislolds

Anyone on the forums played around with an Arduino or Pi humidor controller or anything? I have a few extra Arduinos I should be getting in the mail soon and I was thinking of tinkering with some things...

No_one21

If you can search long enough someone was talking about this a few months ago here in the General Discussion forum. I would definitely use the Pi over the Arduino just based on personal preference and a cleaner look. What do you have in mind other than running fans? There's tons of little things you could do that come to mind.

Edit: Found this - http://www.cigar.com/cs/forums/thread/732445.aspx

chrislolds

Well, I was thinking Arduino over Pi just because it wouldn't need to boot up into an OS and it wouldn't need to use as much battery. Can also do much smaller Arduino boards, I have a few coming from punchthrough(the cortado or lightblue bean, very small, uses bluetooth LE, battery lasts a year) and I have some mini's coming from spark as well, so they could be super super small, use little battery and sit inside even a smaller desktop humidor monitoring and sending alerts.

I'd probably start with just monitoring and move on to controlling fans and auto topoff with reservoir for a larger humidor, maybe with multiple sensors on different levels, and possibly reminding to rotate. A nice LCD readout or LED graph on the outside would be sweet too?

For the larger humidor I'd probably first work it into a coolidor using a cheap cooler. Eventually I figure the project could go into v2.0 v3.0 etc and eventually over the course of a year or two it could be a full system for larger humidors that would include a heat pump as well for temp control.

No_one21

That all sounds good and on the right path. I was choosing the Pi with a larger cooler in mind. Also, I was thinking of hard-wiring instead of using a battery so that wouldn't be an issue. Having an OS on it just makes it more easily modular for whatever applications you add i.e. organization. Tbh I'm just not a fan of arduino's, but I really think for your purposes they're a good choice.

What you're planning to do and expand to is right along the lines of what I was thinking. There's lots of fun little programs or functions you could add to keep track of statistics and such to analyze efficiency or different cigar-storage phenomena.

chrislolds

Hrmm, maybe I'll have to order a Pi and play with it as well.

chrislolds

would a 9volt battery inside a humidor be bad? would it cause any problems with aging cigars or the taste of them?

No_one21

chrislolds:

would a 9volt battery inside a humidor be bad? would it cause any problems with aging cigars or the taste of them?

I got no idea on that, but I would be highly skeptical if anyone said it did.

james40

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

chrislolds

james40:

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

niiiice... This will be a great starting point. Good find!

james40

chrislolds:

james40:

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

niiiice... This will be a great starting point. Good find!

thanks. I'm probably going to load nagios, cacti, and rancid just for fun and satisfy the network engineer guy in me.

chrislolds

james40:

chrislolds:

james40:

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

niiiice... This will be a great starting point. Good find!

thanks. I'm probably going to load nagios, cacti, and rancid just for fun and satisfy the network engineer guy in me.

ahhh, so when I bomb you in the future I should include some networking gear, or a thumbdrive with some fun things on it eh?

If my poweredge 1855 chassis and 10 servers weren't so heavy I'd bomb it on you this week...
EDIT: Actually you're in chula vista.... I might end up driving down some time and dropping it secretly on your porch haha

rsherman24

chrislolds:

james40:

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

niiiice... This will be a great starting point. Good find!

Very cool. I just set up a new coolidor and have been contemplating a couple wireless hygrometers. My IT side has been leaning towards a Pi solution, but this adds a whole new twist. Keep us updated on your progress. Relatively new to the wireless networking space, so may need some advice on which equipment/power source to use. Thanks

james40

chrislolds:

james40:

chrislolds:

james40:

Here you go bro - A full step by step walk through.

http://www.stogieaddict.com/stogie101/ehumi/

niiiice... This will be a great starting point. Good find!

thanks. I'm probably going to load nagios, cacti, and rancid just for fun and satisfy the network engineer guy in me.

ahhh, so when I bomb you in the future I should include some networking gear, or a thumbdrive with some fun things on it eh?

If my poweredge 1855 chassis and 10 servers weren't so heavy I'd bomb it on you this week...
EDIT: Actually you're in chula vista.... I might end up driving down some time and dropping it secretly on your porch haha

Lots of good shops around these parts to hang out but it sounds like you need to go to one of the infamous SoCal herfs. We're usually in Temecula but sometimes up in Lake Forest, which is fairly close to you. It will be nice to have another member I can talk shop to since the other guy is moving abroad.

No need to bomb me anything but that thumb drive does pique my interest. :-)