Hi all,

I am still looking for a way to integrate the Mi Flora Bluetooth Sensor to reduce the cabling of my system.

What is the Mi Flora Sensor?

• Its a Bluetooth Sensor that measures Moisture / light / pH / humidity / temperature / nutrient.

• It transmits the data via low energy bluetooth (shorter distance, max. 10m for this sensor)

• Protocol: Bluetooth 4.1 BLE

• It costs around 12-18 EUR (e.g. on Alibaba express)

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Integration with other Systems

I found various projects already where people integrated it in other systems, e.g.:

• HomeKit (https://tiemerding.com/pflanzensensor-fuer-homekit/)

• Home Assistant (works out of the box)

  • Someone made it work with Esp32 (wifi and bluetooth chip) to overcome longer distances (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3qr4PVtuCc); integration with MQTT server

Is there any way to easily integrate it into HydroSys4?

• Is there any way to directly integrate the sensor (maybe with minor coding adjustments)? I suppose the answer is "no" but still wanted to ask.

• Does the recent integration of the MQTT protocol allow any workaround for integration (e.g. over the option quoted above)?

Thanks,

Thomas