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The Thirsty Light™ is a convenient digital plant moisture sensor designed to be unobtrusive when left in the soil of a plant where it continuously monitors conditions, testing the moisture level once per second. The Thirsty Light blinks a LED light to alert the user when its time to water. With the Thirsty Light™, you will never have to guess when your plants need watering.

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Now if we could only monitor this from a pc somehow.. ;-)

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Once a second ??? Pff...
My wife does it once a week!
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Hi Eric,

Have you ever found such sensor with wireless 433.92MHz option?
There are some but very expensive.

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Well you can make your own..

1x Weerstand 330
1x Weerstand 1k
1x Weerstand 100k
1x LED
1x Transistor BC 547

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You could use instead of a led a visionic water sensor perhaps? Or any of the "on/off" circuit sensors of visionic. (http://www.waakzaamwonen.nl/catalog/pro ... r-detector)

And ofcourse, you can attach some x10 device from marmitek, if you want it at the mhz you want.

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http://www.easybloom.com/buy/overview.html

to check if you got a good place to plant your seeds :)

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