{"id":25,"date":"2012-07-24T16:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2012-07-24T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T21:01:40","slug":"keeping-the-basil-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the Basil Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165209.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165209.jpg\" alt=\"20120724-165209.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when we started planning this long getaway I immediately thought about things around the house. Especially the garden! Three beautiful tomato plants, squash and zucchini, basil, arugula and other random botanical items. I, being the geek I am, decide to rig up a quick irrigation system. <\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s right. Full out automatic watering system. Having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crestron.com\">Crestron<\/a> in my home (and knowing how to program it) enabled me to build a relatively inexpensive irrigation system (about $100 of parts). All that was needed was a few sprinkler heads, some pvc pipe and glue, a length of hose, a solenoid valve, and a rain sensor. Oh, and a new event in the scheduler on my MC3 (programming).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165218.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165218.jpg\" alt=\"20120724-165218.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyday, one hour after the sun sets, the sprinklers turn on for twenty minutes and bring new life and cleansing to my bunches of greens. But if it&#8217;s already wet outside, the rain sensor tells the Crestron system and the sprinklers don&#8217;t turn on. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165706.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165706.jpg\" alt=\"20120724-165706.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can keep an eye on things through my Crestron Mobile app from the other side of the world (if we have a decent Internet connection). Thats the cool part. If I feel like watering my plants from Bali I can!<\/p>\n<p>It has been running for a couple of weeks now. And it works well! Sure beats getting the hose out in the morning. The basil looks happy. And really that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about. The basil. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120724-165157.jpg\" alt=\"20120724-165157.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when we started planning this long getaway I immediately thought about things around the house. Especially the garden! Three beautiful tomato plants, squash and zucchini, basil, arugula and other random botanical items. I, being the geek I am, decide to rig up a quick irrigation system. Yep, that&#8217;s right. Full out automatic watering system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[8,10,11,12,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicandbrianna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}