Hello all.
I would like to know if anyone has experience with a esp soil moisture sensor
I was thinking about a device like this: https://www.tindie.com/products/AprilBrother/esp-soil-moisture-sensor/
Greetings Hans
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Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor
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Hello Hans,
i`ve done similar with mysensors
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1651/share-your-mysensors-project/8
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This one is a quite nice one as well: https://www.tindie.com/products/ProtoArt/greenthumb-wifi-soil-moisture-sensor/
It is developed by a member of the Dutch tweakers.net community. From him I know that a few people who met through tindie are developing an even better sensor.
On the other hand Xiaomi has a nice bluetooth based sensor, the people at home-assistant have already reverse engineered the protocol. It also measures light, temperature and nutrient levels.https://community.home-assistant.io/t/xiaomi-mi-plants-monitor-flower/3388/11
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@Rene-Arts said in Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor:
This one is a quite nice one as well: https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/2229/has-anyone-experience-with-a-esp-soil-moisture-sensor
Wrong link?!
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
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@mwittig said in Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor:
@Rene-Arts said in Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor:
This one is a quite nice one as well: https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/2229/has-anyone-experience-with-a-esp-soil-moisture-sensor
Wrong link?!
Yups, my bad. Must have been a clipboard f*ckup. Correct link is in place now
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Ok thank you all. I will give it a try.
Greetings Hans
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As I said before, the new version of the Greenthumb is available; I just ordered one!
https://www.tindie.com/products/ProtoArt/greenthumb-wifi-soil-moisture-sensor-gen-20/ -
@Rene-Arts said in Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor:
On the other hand Xiaomi has a nice bluetooth based sensor, the people at home-assistant have already reverse engineered the protocol. It also measures light, temperature and nutrient levels.
I ordered these sensors during the last single day on Aliexpress.
Just 10 € per pieceSo i’m also interested to implement this into pimatic
I’ve found some interessting infos:
https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:xiaomi-flora
https://www.open-homeautomation.com/de/2016/08/23/reverse-engineering-the-mi-plant-sensor/But for the implementation I’m too stupid
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@Rene-Arts any news about the Sensor and implementation to pimatic?
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https://pimatic.org/plugins/pimatic-ble/
Don’t know if the plugin is working with 0.9 and if it is under active development.
As the sensor is a generic BLE device this is the Plugin which should be used.After a short look at the code I’m afraid that the current version of the plugin only provides information about the presence of a BLE device and not about its services/characteristics. The used BLE node module however seems to provide functionality to access the devices services and characteristics.
@josecastroleon What is the state of the plugin? Do you plan to extend it? Would be a really great addition which could also support many other BLE devices (think smartwatches, fitness trackers etc.) out of the box.
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I have noticed that PIMATIC - BLE issues an error in the current version
and i’ve found the Flowerpower Plugin:https://github.com/josecastroleon/pimatic-flowerpower
also from @josecastroleonI wait impatiently for delivery from China… so i can test an report
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looks interesting… i’ved ordered someone too
the cheapest i found was on ebay
i hope this was the same as the xiaomi
with your tutorial above it shoud be possible to read them out with pyton and get them in pimatic with shellsensor plugin
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nice price …also from HongKong … so we have to wait few days , befor the fun starts
Yes, my plan is also to try the script in the tutorial and import the variables into pimatic by using shellsensor … need pimatic variables for the rules
If its work, we can think about to create a useable plugin
I am new here and are still learning
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sorry to say but @josecastroleon has not neen on for 2 months now.
maybe open an issue on the git repo to reach himpimatic v0.9 has been released!
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@Mondkind said in Has anyone experience with a esp soil moisture sensor:
I have noticed that PIMATIC - BLE issues an error in the current version
and i’ve found the Flowerpower Plugin:pimatic-flowerpower and ble plugins are not supported with pimatic v0.9
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
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I get the information, the plugin “PIMATIC-BLE” now supported pimatic v0.9
https://github.com/josecastroleon/pimatic-ble/pull/3
@thost96 Thanks for this
Now we can use several Bluetooth soil moisture sensors
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Has anybody of you succesfully tested the Xiaomi Plant Thingy with Pimatic already?
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@Freekwilly This sensor uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for transmission. A simple way of integrating it might be to write a simple shell script for ShellSensor and to use one of the existing tools like https://github.com/open-homeautomation/miflora (written in python) as a baseline.
It should also be noted that the BLE plugins for pimatic have not been maintained for some time and are currently not supported with pimatic 0.9.
For reference, here is a link to the product page with technical specifications
http://xiaomi-mi.com/smart-home/xiaomi-huahuacacao-flower-care-smart-monitor/"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
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@mwittig PIMATIC-BLE is now compatible for PIMATIC v0.9.x
