Greenhouse Automation - Web app

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Hello everyone,

I want to carry out a project aimed at the automation of a greenhouse. The core of this is the Arduino, which will read the data from the sensors and act accordingly through relays. At the moment, in Microsoft Azure, I have the Web application and the database, which will be the bridge between the Web application and the Arduino. The Arduino will communicate with the database through a GSM shield, and the database will communicate with the Web application. The Web application will be used to manage the system: define limits, view data, view alerts, etc. Herein lies the question: are solutions of this kind (https://www.home-assistant.io/) a viable alternative to the realization (and all that this entails, namely time) of my own web application? In my web application it is possible to define things like the mobile phone number to which critical alerts will be sent, register sensors, etc. Does this type of "customization" fit into solutions like the one mentioned above? I feel like I'm going to lose some flexibility and I'm going to spend even more time doing things that, now and for me, are commonplace.

Thank you in advance for your attention

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Check it out with your search engine of choice. It looks like people have used home assistant to do this before. I'd experiment with it for a few hours and see whether you can see how to implement examples of the things you need.

Doing a custom site will likely be more work. It's hard to tell from what you've posted whether you really need that flexibility.

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