# Beehive monitoring **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [May 23, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943 "2025-05-23T10:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan-ivar_boyum/32/29997_2.png) [@Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan-Ivar_Boyum)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/1 "2025-05-23T10:19:06Z")
We have been working on a project for a year to develop an affordable solution for monitoring beehives. The project includes a hive scale, a camera that takes pictures once per hour and a statistics server that collects data in the local WiFi network. A Homey APP has also been developed in connection with the project that accesses the statistics server and shows status and statistics. The project requires some technical expertise. If anyone is interested, I can post more information. ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 7:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/2 "2026-05-24T07:07:59Z")
Hi Jan-Ivar, Could you post some links here where more information can be found? ---
**Author:** ![Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan-ivar_boyum/32/29997_2.png) [@Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan-Ivar_Boyum)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/3 "2026-05-26T12:08:59Z")
Hi. This was a project that I carried out together with my son-in-law. The plan was to post the project online, but I got no response when I posted it on the Homey Community. I therefore dropped at the time to post the information. The project consists of a weight/temperature device based on an ESP32S3 IOT module that sends information once per hour to a REST web service, the web service is developed in Java and can be run independently on a small Linux server or equivalent (I myself have run on a Rasberry PI 5 with Ubuntu). The scale is now standing for the third year on my son-in-law’s beehives and is working excellently. If it is of interest I can collect more information and send it to you. It must be noted that the project does not consist of ready-purchased (ready-made) devices, but must be built from scratch. Jan-Ivar ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/4 "2026-05-26T12:16:01Z")
Especially finding an outdoor scale is very expensive (a few hundred Euro). I dont mind fiddling with firmware/software, but I would like to find a scale for around 50 euro’s without the need to do metal works. ---
**Author:** ![Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan-ivar_boyum/32/29997_2.png) [@Jan-Ivar\_Boyum](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan-Ivar_Boyum)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/5 "2026-05-26T16:12:08Z")
The scale we developed had to be able to support a large beehive. We first tried a base of wood, and four simple (cheap) weight units (50kg). This solution was completely unusable and the result was to weld 2 H frames and use a quality weight sensor. The cheap sensors could not withstand continuous weight. The price for an ESP32S3 is about 8-10 Euro (from China) and the load cell with interface about 30-50 Euro depending on the manufacturer (200kg). I can share software for both web server and ESP32. ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/beehive-monitoring/136943/6 "2026-05-26T17:55:57Z")
Thx. But that is my problem. I dont have a workshop to make my own scale hardware. And even worse: I’m not a handy man. The only tool I can work with is my laptop.