Yet Another Automated Plant box project. Please help me refine my code

Need Help With My Project
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I still cant seem to get Ph to graph in a historical graph.

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Thank you for your help, You told me I had several HW Serial requests on line 38 and 48, I commented line 38 out and now I receive stable readings of pH and no longer see 55.55, Thank you very much.

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I was able to graph pH at one point when i first started working on the project,

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Make your void loop simple. Just run blynk command. Use simple timer to call subroutines especially for virualwrite. So your code will be much more clean and smooth.

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Will you send me an example of how i would write in simple timer?

Blynk.virtualWrite(V15, sensorstring() / 1000);

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There is a very nice short and understandable example called “pushdata” in the Arduino library. I see you al ready added simpletimer somewhere, but I didn’t notice you used it anywhere.

Anyway, the first thing I would do is step away from it all (VERY important step!), create a blank sketch (with a new version number, so you won’t get confused :wink: ) and then get a piece of paper or some drawing software and start making a flow chart with all elements and how you want them to interact, little example:

This way you get everything in order and make it very clear for yourself to what you need and what you can get rid of. Often I find that starting over works really well. This is a kind of “rubber duck” method as they call it. When you get stuck with your program try to explain how it works in laments term to a rubber duck (or any stuffed animal on your desk, lol). Usually you will come to very nice insights where things are going wrong.

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Haha! I talk to my cat all the time, as she is always interested in observing the clicky buzzy noises, and stealing the wires I use, when breadboarding projects… OK not quite the same, but then as my beleaguered CIS teacher discovered… I do almost everything on-the-fly (including coding)… so… ah… probably not as supportive a comment as could be in this context… hmmm, er… just carry on :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hello, I would love to learn more about your project. I am designing multiple systems for hydroponic controlled environments.

I’m very active with this group called the Open Agriculture Initiative, we are focused specifically on open source plant science. I have built my own V2 “Food Computer” and am now developing the Minimum Viable Product version and looking at using Blynk for the interface.

Short video explaining OpenAg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7q9mbXVssg&t=8s

Longer video by founder Caleb Harper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZpPEuL0OFo&t=1s

Let me know if you wanna chat/share ideas.

Thanks,
Peter.

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