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Integrating the Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor with Home Assistant

Jan-Willem11 Mar 2023 Home Assistant, Integrations, Devices, Living room 0 Comments

Integrating the Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor with Home Assistant is easy with the Xiaomi BLE integration. The Xiaomi plant sensor (also referred to as ‘Flower Care plant sensor from HHCC’, ‘HHCCJCY01’, ‘MiFlora sensor’) will be discovered automatically by Home Assistant.

When the plant sensor has been integrated successfully you can create Home Assistant Lovelace dashboards with plant information cards showing moisture, temperature, conductivity, brightness and the battery level of the plant sensor.

Create a plant sensor card within Home Assistant

Jan-Willem13 Mar 2023 Home Assistant, Dashboard (Lovelace UI) 0 Comments

There are multiple options available to create a plant sensor card to include Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor measurements for a Home Assistant dashboard. This article describes how to create a card by using the Lovelace Flower Card by Olen as this has a nice layout and extensive functionality.

This card can make use from the Open Plantbook database to fetch plant information via the OpenPlantBook integration. Additionally the Alternative Plant Component is used.

Home Assistant Dahua webcam dashboard including PTZ presets

Jan-Willem30 Jan 2023 Home Assistant, Home Assistant Other 0 Comments

A webcam, such as from Dahua, can easily be integrated into Home Assistant and opens the possibility to show life streams within Home Assistant.

If the camera is a so called PTZ camera (moving and zooming is possible) a dashboard card can be created which includes buttons to switch to predefined PTZ presets allowing to show specific views.

This article shows how to setup a dashboard card with the life stream and PTZ preset buttons.

Setting up Pushover notifications in Home Assistant

Jan-Willem15 Dec 2022 Home Assistant, Integrations, Automation 0 Comments

To receive notifications on your mobile phone the Pushover service can be used. It requires a Pushover account and the Pushover integration in Home Assistant. Some easy configuration is required before you can use Home Assistant Automations to sent automatically notifications.

Home Assistant garbage pickup notification

Jan-Willem15 Dec 2022 Home Assistant, Automation 0 Comments

Home Assistant can be used to inform you about the garbage pick up dates / waste collection schedule on your dashboard. Within the Netherlands a lot of municipalities are using the AfvalWijzer website to inform their citizens which waste container/bin to put alongside the street.

Home Assistant dashboard card with garbage pickup dates

Jan-Willem14 Dec 2022 Dashboard (Lovelace UI), Home Assistant 0 Comments

Home Assistant can be used to inform you about the garbage pick up dates / waste collection schedule on your dashboard. Within the Netherlands a lot of municipalities are using the AfvalWijzer website to inform their citizens which waste container/bin to put alongside the street.

How to add overview of triggered automations to a dashboard?

Jan-Willem27 Nov 2022 Dashboard (Lovelace UI), Automation, Home Assistant 0 Comments

To monitor the triggering of Home Assistant automations a card can be added to a dashboard showing an overview of triggered automations in the past 24 hours. On a similar way a Lovelace UI dashboard card can be created to show disabled Home Assistant automations.

Integrating the Shelly Flood sensor with Home Assistant

Jan-Willem26 Nov 2022 Integrations, Devices, Home Assistant 1 Comment

Integrating the Shelly Flood sensor with Home Assistant is easy, but unfortunately only the temperature and battery sensors work as expected. The flood sensor itself does not work out of the box as it remains in the status “Dry”. This can be overcome by using the MQTT protocol as explained in this article.

How to fix Home Assistant Z-Wave connection issue?

Jan-Willem30 Oct 2022 Problem solving, Home Assistant 0 Comments

Steps how to fix the Home Assistant Z-Wave connection issue with error “Failed to connect: Cannot connect to host” for an USB attached Z-Wave controller.

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Home Assistant links

Integrating the Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor with Home Assistant

Create a plant sensor card within Home Assistant

Home Assistant Dahua webcam dashboard including PTZ presets

Setting up Pushover notifications in Home Assistant

Home Assistant garbage pickup notification

Home Assistant dashboard card with garbage pickup dates

How to add overview of triggered automations to a dashboard?

Integrating the Shelly Flood sensor with Home Assistant

How to fix Home Assistant Z-Wave connection issue?