RasberryPi Terrarium

I use a Pi Zero for the management of a terrarium with crested gecko's, by using the terrariumPI software by theyosh. It has support for almost all sensors you could ever want in a greenhouse/terrarium and has a nice webbased managment interface. It is originally designed for the Pi3, and the performance isn' t that great on the zero (especially a software update takes forever, I'm looking at you gentelella) but it works rather well.

I've also discovered that the GPIO stuff must be run as root (?) on the Zero else no readings from the cheap dht11 temp/humid sensors.

I manage a basking light and a heatmat with the software to try to keep the temperature around 20 degrees. Now in the winter the room gets too cold so I've decided to upgrade the heatmat to a bigger one...

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