Permanently mounted visual screen for current hub data

Hello community,

Does anyone have a recommendation for viewing a pulse dashboard on-site, like an always on monitor that displays live data? If you have something like this can you share it?

I am trying to get away from both trolmaster and growlink when it comes to viewing charts and setting alerts because I think both of them are horrible compared to the appearance and ease of using pulse devices. I’m about to set up a facility with 4 batch tanks and 2 inline monitor clusters, and I wanted to add ph/ec probes to each of those stations.

Unfortunately, I need to be able to view live data as I’m performing on-site maintenance such as when adjusting doser settings. Imagine a scenario where I’m draining to waste as I’m adjusting a nutrient injector, or having a technician walk by and visually check the tank conditions, they are used to looking at a screen and being able to see live data quickly. For instance, it is not ideal to have to over a minute when making adjustments before getting to see the current value, as that might be 20-40 gallons pumped into the drain.

Perhaps having a tablet mounted to the wall or something like that is the closest thing to this that the pulse supports, but I’m not sure how well this would work in reality or if there is a better option. Especially since merely logging into the pulse dashboard would not guarantee live readings.

If anyone is using their pulse hubs like this, I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Hey Noah.
Not directly related to your question, but we do have a live update feature planned.
(as in fetch new data from the hub immediately, without waiting 1 min for it to come in).

We have a fair bit of work going on right now (as we always do), so i can’t really estimate any dates.
However, very likely this will be supported by the hub, rather than the original devices.

Hey,

Yeah, there are some options…

I run Home Assistant in my facility with Pulse hubs (VWC, VPD), Pro’s and Zero’s… and grab their values via webAPI (thanks Pulse!). Home Assistant OS is running on a Linux server via Proxmox, and the main host is connected to a screen via HDMI in kiosk mode (starts the browser with the HA dashboard in fullscreen, so I have all values in the farm office). Home Assistant also has an app for Android, iOS, etc., so all dashboards work everywhere!

I run Node-RED (add-on) in Home Assistant for my whole automation flow, including a crop steering program similar to the one from Growlink, with a couple of Tuya and eWeLink (Sonoff) devices + 12V solenoids. It works 99% of the time flawlessly, as long as I don’t have any internet problems (longer than 30 minutes), since most stuff is cloud-based (the third-party smart plugs or all Pulse devices).

I could go on and on about how much stuff you can do with it… I have a button in my water room — if I push it, it logs the predefined amounts (Base A/B, PK13/14, mag sulfate, etc.) to Google Sheets with a timestamp, or logs temp, RH, VPD, VWC, etc. to Google Sheets. It’s also very easy to lose yourself in the possibilities :slightly_smiling_face: but everything you need is achievable with this system. Its some kind of black voodoo magic haha…

Here are some screenshots to get inspired :slightly_smiling_face:








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This is very impressive!

if you figure that our Api needs more capabilities - please let us know :slight_smile:

That’s pretty dope. Thanks for sharing. I wish I knew how to remind myself to come refer back to this thread when I get back into designing more automation/tracking stuff.

I recently created a website that logs smart scale data, from scales below my plants. I probably should have used an existing framework like that.