I'm a developer working on this project for a school and for a graduation project
The story about this project was as follows:
In the third year of highschool, we had to choose a project for graduation.
There were project topics that the teachers provided to us, but i insisted to do this.
When i chose this project, Mrs Janů took a lead to this project.
After the summer break, i started to work on this project.
Made the first little steps.
The basic layout, some css, basic page layout and so on.
Then the problems came by.
I started to work on the actuall flowerpot and the software behind it.
On the Raspberry Pi, I went and installed the OS and then Python, because there were relatively easily accessable libraries for the sensosr i had.
But the big mistake was to stick with the first, easier to setup, but harder to work with method.
I chose to use Firebase Realtime Database.
The Realtime Database was at the time the obvious option, because it was by the name, "realtime".
I set up the RPi to send data to it and it worked.
But reading the data from the frontend was a lot more difficult than i anticipated.
I just couldn't make it work and got stuck on it for too long.
When the situation reached a breaking point, i bit my tongue and started working on it for good.
I rewrote the code on the RPi to send the data from sensors to the standard Firestore, which made it a lot easyer to read on the frontend.
I assambled the whole flowerpot with all of the sensors and the RPi into the flowerpot i've designed and made my girlfriend print on her 3D printer.
Made some final touches to it and continued working on the software again.
With the software, I made a good progress from the way it looked then.
I made the site work relatively intuitively for at least my family that I shown my project.
When the time had come, i did the last couple of things just to make it mostly work.
There are still a lot of work to do.
I need to make the site look a lot better, I need to add the authentification and a lot more stuff I'm forgetting.
For the graduation project, this is what I made, a "working" site that displays the data to the user in an intuitive Ui that anyone using the site would understand what he is looking at.
I cannot work at the project anymore, since it is allready submited, but I certainly will work at it after the school and hopefully make it a real thing that people could buy or make their own, since all the stuff but the software is of the shelf.