is a project for monitoring the weight of a beehive including climate sensors for temperature,humidity and barometric pressure
we can optional add up to 3 external temperature sensors, so we can monitor the temperature in the beehive
We use the LORAWAN PROTOCOLL with OTAA and send the data to TTN.Each message has a length of 2 byte.
keep in mind, that the max. airtime/node in lora is limited to 30 sec. per day
with sf=7 .... abaout 500 messages
with sf=12 ... max 20 messages per day !
... we send the data with an intervall of 5 minutes -> 288 messages per day
- heltec cubecell AB01
- Waveshare BME280 (Environmental Sensor, Temperature, Humidity, Barometric Pressure Detection Module Low Power Consumption I2C/SPI Interface)
- optional: DS18B20 temperature sensor (1-Wire for external use)
- 3,7V 1100mAh Lipo Accu 1S 3C
- optional: solar panel 1W 5V 100mA
- this version is tested mith mikrotik lorawan Gateway (wap lora8 kit) ... there is also a version without TTN-support on https://github.com/thomasX/monitoredBees
| Pin Function | wiring | cubecell pin |
|---|---|---|
| BME280 SCK | yellow | SCK |
| BME280 SDA | blue | SDA |
| BME280 GND | black | gnd |
| BME280 vcc | red | vext |
| HX711 DO | GPIO4 | |
| HX711 CLK | GPIO5 | |
| HX711 GND | GND | |
| HX711 VCC | vext | |
| DS18B20 | yello pullup 10k to vext | GPIO0 |
| DS18B20 | red | vext |
| DS18B20 | black | gnd |
| experimental: | ||
| additional up to 7 HX711 | oneWire protokoll | |
| ---- | ||
we use the thingspeak network with the following field-definition it is possible to use the Android and IOS-APP from the honeyPi project (http://www.honey-pi.de ). so we have no extra app to produce
| Field | Usage |
|---|---|
| field1 | temperature inside the hive |
| field2 | temperature outside the hive |
| field3 | humidity |
| field4 | air pressure |
| field5 | air quality |
| field6 | weight |
| field7 | unused |
Local installation of git and Visual Studio Code assumed.\
cd <project-root>
git clone https://github.com/thomasX/monitoredLoraBees.git
cd monitoredLoraBees
git submodule init
git submodule update
To fetch the latest updates:
cd <project-root>
cd monitoredLoraBees
git stash
git pull
git submodule update
git stash pop
copy the file config.h.template to config.h change your settings in config.h
The project already includes all required libraries (that is the reason for the submodule commands and for the local sketchbook location).
The project is configured for the heltec cubecell-board HTCC-AB01
if you want to change the platform please consider the documentations of platformio https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/