Determine the average of several sensors

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Hello all

I need help or your advice for my project
I want to build an automatic irrigation system for my greenhouse. I want to determine the moisture of the soil with 5 soil moisture sensors and combine these values to an average value.

Can someone explain to me how I can now get these values from the 5 sensors to an average value?

Thanks in advance
Greetings Jonny

2

Given 5 values how would you calculate their average using pencil and paper ?

3

no i mean how i write the code

4

Start with how you would do it manually then you can convert it to code

Please post your code that gets the 5 values

The easier you make it to read and copy the code the more likely it is that you will get help

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#define ventil 2 


#define SENSOR_PIN0 A0
#define SENSOR_PIN1 A1
#define SENSOR_PIN2 A2
#define SENSOR_PIN3 A3
#define SENSOR_PIN4 A4

int sensorValue0 = 0;
int sensorValue1 = 0;
int sensorValue2 = 0;
int sensorValue3 = 0;
int sensorValue4 = 0;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600); 
  pinMode(ventil, OUTPUT);  
  
}
void loop() {
   int sensorValue0 = analogRead(A0);
   
   int sensorValue1 = analogRead(A1);
   int sensorValue2 = analogRead(A2);
   int sensorValue3 = analogRead(A3);
   int sensorValue4 = analogRead(A4);
   
  Serial.println(sensorValue0);
  delay(500);
  Serial.println(sensorValue1);
  delay(500);
      Serial.println(sensorValue2);
  delay(500);
    Serial.println(sensorValue3);
  delay(500);
    Serial.println(sensorValue4);
  delay(500);
 

}
6

If I told you that

sensorValue0 = 20
sensorValue1 = 25
sensorValue2 = 30
sensorValue3 = 10
sensorValue4 = 18

Show how you would work out the avarage on paper

7

divide and then multiply by 5

8

Try again

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uint32_t add;
add = sensorValue0 + sensorValue1 + sensorValue2 + sensorValue3 + sensorValue4;
uint16_t divide;
divide = add / 5;
Serial.println(divide);

like so

10

Why don't you try it ?

There is a neater way of doing it but get it working the simple way first