Hello.
I was inspired from the mcThings video to monitor when it is time to water the christmas tree so I just had to implement that on my tree.
I am using a simple soil humidity detection module connected to a mcModule on a digital input .
And a very simple code that is checking every 5 minute if the water level is ok or not
Shared Event measureMoisture() RaiseEvent Every 5 Minutes
enableMoistureLevel = True 'turn on
Thread.Sleep(500000) 'sleep
Dim needWater As Boolean
Dim payload As ListOfByte = New ListOfByte()
needWater = MoistureLevel
If MoistureLevel Then
payload.Add("true")
Else
payload.Add("false")
End If
Lplan.Publish("mcModule/000104E6/livingroom/christmastree/needwater", payload)
enableMoistureLevel = False 'turn off
End Event