Plant-it

[Project under "active" development, some features may be unstable or change in the future. A first release version is planned to be packed soon].

Plant-it is a self-hosted gardening companion app.
Useful for keeping track of plant care, receiving notifications about when to water plants, uploading plant images, and more.

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Why? • Features highlights • Quickstart • Support • Contribute

Why?

Plant-it is a gardening companion app that helps you take care of your plants.

It does not recommend you about which action to take, instead it is designed to logs the activity you are doing. This is on purpose, I strongly believe that the only one in charge of know when to water your plants, when to fertilize them, etc. is you (with the help of multiple online sources).

Plant-it helps you remember the last time you did a treatment of your plants, which plants you have, collects photos of your plants, and notify you about time passed since last action on them.

Features highlight

[!NOTE] Unfortunately, the Trefle service is no longer operational. The project is inactive, and while the dataset was accessible until now, it is no longer available. I am currently working on a replacement for this service, as mentioned in issue #218. As a temporary solution, the backend dataset has been switched to FloraCodex, despite some limitations in the service.

• Add existing plants or user created plants to your collection
• Log events like watering, fertilizing, biostimulating, etc. for your plants
• View all the logged events, filtering by plant and event type
• Upload photos of your plants
• Set reminder for some actions on your plants (e.g. notify if not watered every 4 days)

Quickstart

Server

Installing Plant-it is pretty straight forward, in order to do so follow these steps:

• Create a folder where you want to place all Plant-it related files.
• Inside that folder, create a file named docker-compose.yml with this content:

  name: plant-it
  services:
    server:
      image: msdeluise/plant-it-server:latest
      env_file: server.env
      depends_on:
        - db
        - cache
      restart: unless-stopped
      volumes:
        - "./upload-dir:/upload-dir"
        - "./certs:/certificates"
      ports:
        - "8080:8080"
        - "3000:3000"
  
    db:
      image: mysql:8.0
      restart: always
      env_file: server.env
      volumes:
        - "./db:/var/lib/mysql"
  
    cache:
      image: redis:7.2.1
      restart: always
  

• Inside that folder, create a file named server.env with this content:

  #
  # DB
  #
  MYSQL_HOST=db
  MYSQL_PORT=3306
  MYSQL_USERNAME=root
  MYSQL_PSW=root
  MYSQL_DATABASE=bootdb
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
  
  #
  # JWT
  #
  JWT_SECRET=putTheSecretHere
  JWT_EXP=1
  
  #
  # Server config
  #
  USERS_LIMIT=-1
  UPLOAD_DIR=/upload-dir
  API_PORT=8080
  FLORACODEX_KEY=
  LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
  ALLOWED_ORIGINS=*
  
  #
  # Cache
  #
  CACHE_TTL=86400
  CACHE_HOST=cache
  CACHE_PORT=6379
  
  #
  # SSL
  #
  SSL_ENABLED=false
  CERTIFICATE_PATH=/certificates/
  

• Run the docker compose file (docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d), then the service will be available at localhost:3000, while the REST API will be available at localhost:8080/api (localhost:8080/api/swagger-ui/index.html for the documentation of them).

Take a look at the documentation in order to understand the available configurations.

App

You can access the Plant-it service using the web app at http://<server_ip>:3000.

For Android users, the app is also available as an APK, which can be downloaded either from the GitHub releases assets or from F-Droid.

Download

• GitHub Releases: You can download the latest APK from the GitHub releases page.

  

• F-Droid: Alternatively, you can get the app from F-Droid.

  

Installation

For detailed instructions on how to install and configure the app, please refer to the installation documentation.

Support the project

If you find this project helpful and would like to supporting it, consider buying me a coffee. Your generosity helps keep this project alive and ensures its continued development and improvement.

Contribute

Feel free to contribute and help improve the repo.

Contributing Translations to the Project

If you're interested in contributing transactions to enhance the app, you can get started by following the guide provided here. Your support and contributions are greatly appreciated.

Bug Report, Feature Request and Question

You can submit any of this in the issues section of the repository. Chose the right template and then fill the required info.

Feature development

Let's discuss first possible solutions for the development before start working on that, please open a feature request issue.

How to contribute

If you want to make some changes and test them locally take a look at the documentation.