How-To Guides

Learn How to Build Your Own Smart Garden

Step-by-step guides to help you build, configure, and deploy your own automated garden with MudPi. From beginner setups to advanced configurations.

Getting Started

New to MudPi? Start here to learn the basics.

Beginner

Raspberry Pi Setup

Set up your Raspberry Pi for the first time and prepare it for MudPi installation.
Beginner

Installing MudPi

Download and install the MudPi core system on your Raspberry Pi.
Beginner

Your First Garden Setup

Connect your first sensor and set up basic automated watering.

Hardware & Wiring

Learn how to wire sensors, relays, and other components.

Intermediate

Wiring Sensors

Connect soil moisture, temperature, humidity, and rain sensors to your MudPi unit.
Intermediate

Relay Control

Set up relay modules to control pumps, valves, and other devices.
Advanced

Adding Arduino Nodes

Expand your system by integrating Arduino-based sensor nodes.

Projects & Integration

Complete projects and integration guides for expanding your MudPi system.

Beginner

Weather Station

Build a DHT11 temperature and humidity weather station with MudPi.
Intermediate

Using Redis with MudPi

Interact with MudPi's Redis event system using CLI tools and Python.
Intermediate

Sending Data to MudPi

Send data to MudPi using MQTT from the command line, Python, or microcontrollers.

Legacy Guides

Archived guides for older Raspberry Pi OS versions (Buster/Bullseye) and paho-mqtt 1.x.

Legacy

Raspberry Pi Setup

Setup using wpa_supplicant and the default pi user (Buster/Bullseye era).
Legacy

Installing MudPi

Installation using system-wide pip (pre-PEP 668).
Legacy

Sending Data to MudPi

MQTT data publishing using paho-mqtt 1.x API.

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