Roadmap

GardenStation has a lot of separate components that need to be worked on and completed before the project can be considered v1.0. The roadmap details a general overview of features that will be worked on and serves as a guide for what to expect for this project and for future development.

Main Features

• A working web application
• Soil moisture sensors wirelessly transmitting data
• Relational database to store data
• GardenStation receiver to handle incoming data
• Functional web server to serve pages/garden data
• Running and testing web server on portable device

Future Work

• Update sensors wirelessly
• Security testing
• Web application interface look and feel improvements
• Live camera feed display
• Public web site

Work on this project will also include implementing CI/CD practices, tools and workflows to try and gain experience working on a project using industry best practices.

• Running a Jenkins server
• Utilising issues, branches, wiki documentation
• Making use of Github Actions for automation
• Ensuring all code is thoroughly tested

Changelog

v0.0.2 - Database API

• There is a working database API with documentation describing how to use it
• Database allows for adding soil moisture records and retrieving them from a database
• Early CI/CD tools implemented with running unit tests on pull requests

v0.0.1 - Start point Project is set up, planned and designed, development can commence. Contains previous work using Flask web site as a starting point.