Parrot Flower Power plant sensor

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Thats a shame bert could not get it working, would have been a nice addition as im not a guy for plants.
I do tend to forget to water them (allot) haha.
well hopefully something else does come on the market and could be read out with an RFXcom or similar
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vincenttor wrote:Thats a shame bert could not get it working, would have been a nice addition as im not a guy for plants.
I do tend to forget to water them (allot) haha.
Same here, for now I use Seramis which gives me a buffer of several weeks in most cases.

As BT4.0 sensor devices are beginning to pick up public interest, it wouldn't surprise me if we will see some affordable competition in the near future. This year CES was all about watches and other gadgets for humans and animals. Next year plants?
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For years I have already automated my plant watering. Nothing new there. I am using a Gardena sensor with a Visonic switch, RFXCOM receiver and a RAN8X10 to control some valves.
There is already a thread about it.

What will make a difference is that it will be much easier to readout values. Easier to see 'trends' and anticipate with watering. Cheaper devices will also make it easier to divide the measuring over more plants etc. Bluetooth will not do it for me, (large garden).
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As i also do not have 'green fingers' can you please point out the discussion about this Gardena sensor with Visonic switch?

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Search for Gardena.
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Digit wrote:Search for Gardena.
Is that possible here? :shock:
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The same tip for you too then: try it before asking someone else to do it for you :lol:
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vincenttor wrote:Thats a shame bert could not get it working, would have been a nice addition as im not a guy for plants.
I do tend to forget to water them (allot) haha.
well hopefully something else does come on the market and could be read out with an RFXcom or similar
I would really like to realize this plant watering time notification project. I'm an expert on killing plants, and perhaps I should move only to cactus growing... But with some nice sensor, which connected via my RFXtrx433 to Domoticz could generate a notification which is sent to my phone whenever the plants need watering, I might not have to.

So apparently the nice list of devices mentioned previously in this thread can't be used because of modulation issues. But surely there must be some other way of doing this? I read some threads about Arduino's and soil moisture sensors (such as http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?Sea ... 0509142434), but I didn't figure out how to get the data to the RFXtrx... An off the shelf 433 sensor would of course be much easier.

There must be some simple way of doing this?
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