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Integrating the Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor with Home Assistant

Integrating the Xiaomi Flower Care plant sensor with Home Assistant

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.

IKEA Fyrtur Block-out roller blind

IKEA Fyrtur Block-out roller blind

Ikea curtain automatic up/down based on sun rise test install distance of contact to homey no remote or amplifier used flow what did work/not work   FYRTUR Block-out roller blind, wireless/battery-operated grey80x195 cm Block-out blinds blocks light from shining through and completely darkens your room.The blind comes prepaired with the remote control and the signal repeater. For the blinds wireless functions to work, the signal repeater (included in the package) needs to be plugged in to...

How to monitor water consumption via Homey

How to monitor water consumption via Homey

Monitori water consumption of our analog Elster V200 water meter via Homey involved some puzzling to find the right equipment to fetch the pulses from the water meter and make them available in Homey. I decided to go for:
– Elster Falcon PR6 pulse reading module
– Youless Energy monitor LS120
It provides us now water consumption charts, waterflow charts and Homey flow possibilities to initiate actions. This article describes my journey to get the water consumption monitored via Homey.