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Measure soil moisture - Virtual IoT Hardware

For dis part of di lesson, you go add one capacitive soil moisture sensor to your virtual IoT device, and read di values wey e dey give.

Virtual Hardware

Di virtual IoT device go use one simulated Grove capacitive soil moisture sensor. Dis one go make dis lab dey same as wen you dey use Raspberry Pi wit physical Grove capacitive soil moisture sensor.

For physical IoT device, di soil moisture sensor na capacitive sensor wey dey measure soil moisture by detecting di capacitance of di soil, one property wey dey change as di soil moisture dey change. As di soil moisture dey increase, di voltage go dey reduce.

Dis sensor na analog sensor, so e dey use one simulated 10-bit ADC to report value from 1-1,023.

Add di soil moisture sensor to CounterFit

To use virtual soil moisture sensor, you go need add am to di CounterFit app.

Task - Add di soil moisture sensor to CounterFit

Add di soil moisture sensor to di CounterFit app.

Create one new Python app for your computer inside one folder wey you go call soil-moisture-sensor wit one single file wey you go call app.py and one Python virtual environment, then add di CounterFit pip packages.

⚠️ You fit check di instructions for how to create and set up CounterFit Python project for lesson 1 if you need am.
Make sure say di CounterFit web app dey run.
Create di soil moisture sensor:
1. For di Create sensor box inside di Sensors pane, drop down di Sensor type box and select Soil Moisture.
2. Leave di Units as NoUnits.
3. Make sure say di Pin dey set to 0.
4. Click di Add button to create di Soil Moisture sensor for Pin 0.
Di soil moisture sensor go dey created and e go show for di sensors list.

Program di soil moisture sensor app

Now you fit program di soil moisture sensor app using di CounterFit sensors.

Task - program di soil moisture sensor app

Program di soil moisture sensor app.

Make sure say di soil-moisture-sensor app dey open for VS Code.
Open di app.py file.

Add di code wey dey below to di top of app.py to connect di app to CounterFit:

from counterfit_connection import CounterFitConnection
CounterFitConnection.init('127.0.0.1', 5000)

Add di code wey dey below to di app.py file to import some libraries wey you go need:
```
import time
from counterfit_shims_grove.adc import ADC
```
Di import time statement dey bring in di time module wey you go use later for dis assignment.

Di from counterfit_shims_grove.adc import ADC statement dey bring in di ADC class to interact wit one virtual analog to digital converter wey fit connect to CounterFit sensor.
Add di code wey dey below dis one to create one instance of di ADC class:
```
adc = ADC()
```
Add one infinite loop wey go dey read from dis ADC for pin 0 and write di result go console. Dis loop go sleep for 10 seconds between di reads.
```
while True:
    soil_moisture = adc.read(0)
    print("Soil moisture:", soil_moisture)

    time.sleep(10)
```
From di CounterFit app, change di value of di soil moisture sensor wey di app go dey read. You fit do dis one in two ways:
- Enter one number for di Value box for di soil moisture sensor, then click di Set button. Di number wey you enter go be di value wey di sensor go return.
- Check di Random checkbox, and enter Min and Max value, then click di Set button. Every time wey di sensor dey read value, e go read one random number between Min and Max.

Run di Python app. You go see di soil moisture measurements wey dem dey write for console. Change di Value or di Random settings to see di value dey change.

(.venv) ➜ soil-moisture-sensor $ python app.py 
Soil moisture: 615
Soil moisture: 612
Soil moisture: 498
Soil moisture: 493
Soil moisture: 490
Soil Moisture: 388

💁 You fit find dis code for di code/virtual-device folder.

😀 Your soil moisture sensor program don work well!

Disclaimer:
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