homebridge-flower-sensorUse HomeKit to monitor your plants with homebridge
homebridge-flower-sensor
Integrate Parrot Flower Power, the Parrot Pot or the never released Parrot H2O into HomeKit using homebridge. This plugin does not depend upon the now discontinued Parrot Cloud by talking directly to the sensors using a Bluetooth Low Energy connection.
Status
Capabilities
This plugin exposes the following capabilities of the Flower Power sensor to HomeKit:
- Soil Temperature
- Soil Moisture
- Ambient Light Level
- Identifying the sensor flashes the built-in LED
- Monitor the battery status of the Flower Power sensor
- Provides date/time the sensor data was last retrieved
- Provides the date/time the batteries were last changed
- 24h average low light level sensor trigger for plant recommendations
- 24h average low humidity level sensor trigger to remind you to water your plants
There're more capabilities planned for the future. And see the CHANGELOG for release information.
Using this plugin
To use this plugin I recommend a Raspberry Pi Zero W. You can monitor multiple Flower Power devices in one homebridge on one Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Please be aware of the limitations and coexistance with other plugins using Bluetooth:
Supported clients
This platform and the switches it creates have been verified to work with the following apps on iOS 11:
- Home
- Elgato Eve
See HomeKit Apps for a comparison table of supported features.
Credits
See CREDITS for acknowledgements to the individuals that contributed directly or indirectly to this plugin.
Some asks for friendly gestures
If you use this and like it - please leave a note by staring this package here or on GitHub.
If you use it and have a problem, file an issue at GitHub - I'll try to help.
If you tried this, but don't like it: tell me about it in an issue too. I'll try my best to address these in my spare time.
If you fork this, go ahead - I'll accept pull requests for enhancements.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 Michael Fröhlich
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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