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• Testing the Soil Moisture Sensor

  xamiax • 03/14/2016 at 20:02 • 0 comments

  To test if the soil moisture sensor is working correctly, I hooked up a simple digital tube display. The sensor is connected to an analog pin. So if there is high moisture, the read value is high (a few hundred). If it were totally dry it would show 0.

  #include <Arduino.h>
  
  // Display stuff
  #include <TM1637Display.h>
  #define CLK 12
  #define DIO 11
  TM1637Display display(CLK, DIO);
  
  
  int sensorPin = A0;
  
  void setup()
  {
  }
  
  void loop()
  {
    
    int sensorValue;
    sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);
    display.setBrightness(0x0f);
    display.showNumberDec(sensorValue, false, 4, 0);
    
    delay(1000);
  }

  Seems like the sensor works like a charm!

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