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Don't seek motivation and how-to answers. Those will only get you going for so long and you will revert back to your old behaviors.

If you are serious with your inquiry, you will examine yourself and seek the truth - to understand why you are not driven to pursue the things you say you want to pursue. And a solution will emerge.

As for the one who has true desire, there is no choice but to pursue the thing he desires and to do them as if life dependent on them; as if there was no tomorrow.

I would like the current state to improve so thought of submitting feedback on Apple's program page.

Unfortunately the "Provide Feedback" (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/tell-us/) page reads:

"We’ll be back soon."

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PG commented recently "if you do creative work, try to avoid situations where people with less ability than you can tell you what to do, or edit your work". It expands to getting rich.

If you put Pi in a segmented network this is a good solution. That's what I do now anyway with python + sqlite and Netgate sg-1100 as a firewall

I'm using a cheap submersible water pump controlled via relay by a python script running on raspberry pi. Water pump is connected to a clear vinyl tube for water distribution to the plant.

Availability of water level at source is checked by a non-contact liquid level sensor.

Triggers for watering plant are defined as follows: 1. There is water in tank / source (checked by non-contact liquid level sensor) 2. Soil moisture level is below certain threshold (measured by 2 soil moisture capacity sensors embedded in the plant) 3. Watering duration is determined by current soil moisture level; Python script activates relay to run the pump for the right duration. 4. Same python script also: - activates camera to record watering (+2s buffer to have all on the video) via usb cam connected to the pi (leveraging opencv lib) - uploads recorded video automatically to youtube channel (if pi has internet connection) - summarizes watering event and sends me notification with link to the recording and other helpful stats (temp, humidity, moisture level etc.) - saves all metrics to sqllite db for future reference

Key parts I ended up using for the project: 1. Water pump: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWXV7DE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

2. Non-contact Liquid Level Sensor -XKC-Y25-NPN: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D3246BH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

3. Gikfun Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H3P1NRM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

4. Relay: https://www.amazon.com/KeeYees-Channel-Indicator-Arduino-Ras... (though I just bought my when visiting Fry's)

Primary motivation to do the project was so that wife can have pice of mind knowing plants are taken care of while we are away on longer trips.

Hope this helps.

Did something similar.

Raspberry pi is automatically uploading video of each watering to YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtl442fLi6KAOowkw_w83rA/vid...) and informing me with summary (incl. watering duration, soil moisture level, temperature, humidity, light level etc.).

Not that I care that much about the plant but automating it has been fun. It's been on auto pilot now for a couple of months now and the plant from the looks of it seams to be happy.