HortusFox is a self-hosted collaborative plant management system which you can use in your own environment to manage all your plants.
You can add your plants with various details and photos and assign them to a location of your environment. There is a dashboard available that shows all important overview information. The system does also feature a warning system in order to indicate which plants need special care, user authentication, tasks, inventory management, calendar, search, collaborative chat and a history log of what actions users have taken. The system features collaborative management, so you can manage your plants with multiple users.
It uses MariaDB/MySQL as its database backend.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Plant management – control panel that assist with controlling status indication of plant care, the management of plants locations or plants sorting, and notes taking feature for plants..
- Custom locations – indication of where plants are within plant caregiver’s home or other locations’ types..
- Tasks system – tasks planning for plant care.
- Inventory system – track items and tools pertaining to plant care
- Calendar system – manages upcoming dates and appointments.
- Search feature – look up info from within instance’s database.
- History feature – logging and timeline of plants activities/statuses.
- Weather feature – forecasts the weather info based on inputted location.
- Group chat – a communication channel for team members within an instance.
- Profile management – users preferences settings
- Themes – custom themes and styles to suit one’s own preferences.
- Admin dashboard – settings control panel that set settings toward an instance
- Reminders.
- Backups.
- REST API.
- Plant identification – botanical information of plants, vegetables, flowers, and etc.
Website: github.com/danielbrendel/hortusfox-web
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Developer: Daniel Brendel
License: MIT License
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