Designed as a tiny valet for your plants, Grow HAT mini will monitor the soil moiture for up to 3 plants, water them with tiny pumps, and show you their health on its small but informative screen. Learn more - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/grow

You're best using the "One-line" install method.

curl -sSL https://get.pimoroni.com/grow | bash

Note report issues with one-line installer here: https://github.com/pimoroni/get

• git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/grow-python
• cd grow-python
• sudo ./install.sh

Note Raspbian Lite users may first need to install git: sudo apt install git

• Install dependencies:

sudo apt install python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-yaml python3-smbus python3-pil python3-spidev python3-rpi.gpio

• Run sudo pip3 install growhat

Note this won't perform any of the required configuration changes on your Pi, you may additionally need to:

• Enable i2c: sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0
• Enable SPI: sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0
• Add the following to /boot/config.txt: dtoverlay=spi0-cs,cs0_pin=14

You should read the following to get up and running with our monitoring script:

• Using and configuring monitor.py
• Setting up monitor.py as a service

• GPIO Pinout - https://pinout.xyz/pinout/grow_hat_mini
• Support forums - http://forums.pimoroni.com/c/support
• Discord - https://discord.gg/hr93ByC

• Add mutually exclusive locking to pumps to avoid brownout running multiple pumps at once

• Initial Release