Open Source Smart Garden
Grow what you love,
effortlessly.
A scalable smart garden system that automates watering, monitors conditions, and sustainably manages your garden's resources.
Capabilities
Everything your garden needs, nothing it doesn't.
Hardware
Smart Irrigation Products
Use our configuration tool to quickly add units and change your system as you scale.
Main Control Unit
Master Controller
- ✓ Runs the main MudPi core
- ✓ Manages any attached sensors and units
- ✓ Controls main valves and relays
- ✓ Monitors tank water levels
- ✓ Logs readings into temporary memory store
- ✓ Publishes events and data to Redis
- ✓ Can host controls interface or dashboards
- ✓ Run standalone or expand with additional units
Multiple master controllers can be connected together
Available Soon
Expandable Sensor Unit
Sensor Controller
- ✓ Analyzes Soil Moisture, Humidity, Temperature, Rain, Light Intensity
- ✓ Compatible with a variety of commercially available analog and digital sensors
- ✓ Manages any attached sensors
- ✓ Controls zone valves and additional relays
- ✓ Monitors tank water levels
- ✓ Publishes sensor data to main control unit
Control Platform
MudPi Solarbeam
Get ready to launch your control station and take command of your garden with a suite of awesome tools. Solarbeam is a privacy-minded platform built over the core system that allows you to schedule automated tasks, monitor sensor readings from the web, and provides a variety of features to enhance your garden efficiency.
Solarbeam can also be deployed as a local installation. Ask us for info!
Available Soon · Currently in alpha
How it Works
MudPi is made to install on top of your existing irrigation. This way you're not locked to any specific method or vendor. The main controller unit is capable of regulating water with pumps or controlled valves. It follows schedules and parameters you specify—such as desired soil moisture—to control when to water your plants. Sensors are polled periodically for recent values that can be stored. You get notifications of garden conditions and alerts of anything important.
Outdoors
Gardens · Green Roofs · Raised Beds · Agriculture · Landscapes · Green Building Programs
Indoors
Greenhouses · Plant Shelves · Seedling Starting · Hydroponics · Aquaponics · House Plants
Open Source Philosophy
We believe in the Right to Repair
The core platform of MudPi was built open source and available to the public. We believe in order to build a strong service, users should be able to expand on a platform to their needs with ease. The components we use are commercially available and can be self-replaced. We even have guides to help you.
DIY Friendly
Build it Yourself Approved
If you're a tinkerer and up for the task, you can build your own smart garden powered by MudPi. The core technology behind MudPi is open source and designed to be a foundation to build upon. We have free guides to help you deploy your own setup along with custom kits to speed up the process.
Ready to get started?
We're happy to discuss custom integrations, project builds, demos, or speaking engagements.
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The Creator
Wisconsin Made
Hello! I'm Eric Davisson, a full stack developer and tinkerer from Wisconsin. MudPi was created as a personal project to help me manage my garden without taking all of my free time. The project has grown and I quickly realized many other people could benefit from its useful possibilities. Automated gardening doesn't have to be hard or overpriced. This is why the core platform was created as a foundation that could be built upon.
MudPi is actively being developed and improved. I greatly welcome any feedback or suggestions! Sign up for the newsletter and check back for updates as they are made available.
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