“I love the Enviro (Pico Aboard) line! The Indoor was my first purchase. The provided code works out of the box. The Github package is... "feature complete", so I forked it and made some tweaks for myself, adding voltage reporting, reducing the busy-loop wait, etc.
Since then, I've added a Grow and an Urban to my collection. The only reason I don’t have the Weather is the space and cost of ann anemometer. I also recently got a Pico Display 2.8", so I can view sensor data outside of Grafana.
The only hiccup I had is with the battery connection - my boards don’t behave as expected and I have to go with microUSB instead, which means the Pico is always on and needs a power plug. But I've adjusted to that.
Overall, the Pico Aboard line is amaxing and provided me with so many days of fun. I hope Pimoroni never ends it!”
“Set up is really easy and I integrated the Enviro Indoor with my existing InfluxDB which already monitors my Enviro Urban without problems. I am still amazed you can get a setup website like this on a Pico!”
“The device is very handy and does its job as expected.
The free enviro.io plan is a bit limited, but there are easy guides yo setup your mqtt or fluxdb store.
It would be nice to be able to reconfigure the parameters (frequency, thresholds, enable/disable watering) without having to plug the device in a computer, but memory is limited so probably not feasible”
“24 hours in.. 5 stars so far after overcoming a minor battery issue. Initially would not stay connected to WiFi with the batteries provided with the kit. (Router ~ 50 ft from kit). Would stay connected short range to cellphone for configuration, but after initial connection to wifi network, connection would be lost with the next post transmission of data. Replaced batteries and all good....Connection has stayed up for last 18 hours transmitting every 15 minutes. With fresh batteries (and firmware update to V0.0.10) works as advertised to a custom HTTP endpoint on a Raspberry Pi 4 working as a server in the building. Time will tell.....”
“Great little kit, and love the work you've done so that one can provision it just with a smartphone and wifi. My only gripe, mine came with an older version of the firmware loaded, so there were a few bugs. Once flashed with the new version all worked fine.”
