In this last tutorial we'll show how to protect our grow from a fire,
overheating or intrusions.
We start by creating a Security Alarm that we'll call "Fire".
We select the smoke sensor connected to TankBot, and we choose
The first security option to shutdown all elements, and turning On just one.
We select the electro valve that is connected to a water tap
that will activate a series of sprinklers situated inside our grow.
This alarm will deactivate all the other electric devices like lamps and extractors,
not only to protect them, but also to avoid that the extractors feed the fire.
We can create another useful alarm whether we have TankBot or not.
You can have a situation where the extractor stops working, and heat builds up inside your grow.
This can totally dry our plants, and even generate a fire.
We select a General Alarm and we call it "High Temp".
Again it's important to activate the notifications e-mails and the buzzer.
We select the temperature sensor,
We assign it a value of 40ºC with an hysteresis of 10ºC.
Now we select "Turn Off" the device, and we activate the persistence.
We'll shutdown the lamps, and we don't want the light schedule to turn them on again.
We select the lamp, and done.
When the temperature reaches 50ºC, the lamps will shutdown, and Gronode will start beeping and a notification e-mail will be sent.
The light will not activate until the temperature gets below the 30ºC configured.
Now we'll create a silent alarm that warns us of intrusions in our growing Area.
You can create a lot of variants, like the activation of a security lock,
Activate the buzzer, deactivate the lamps and difficult visibility for the intruder, etc.
It's really up to you what measures you want to take.
Let's create a General Alarm named "Intrusion".
We select the motion detector.
Now we use the "Send Mail" option.
And that's it, we have our silent alarm created.
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