# Garden watering **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [April 6, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854 "2021-04-06T20:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rens\_Hoekema](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rens_hoekema/32/12848_2.png) [@Rens\_Hoekema](https://community.homey.app/u/Rens_Hoekema)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/42 "2021-04-12T18:46:59Z")
No, you open the app “homey” select Zigbee ![Screenshot_20210412-204631](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/b/dbedb1a793ba26d94013787e4e45ac2601ecf18c.png) ---
**Author:** ![Sebastien\_Simonet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sebastien_simonet/32/30000_2.png) [@Sebastien\_Simonet](https://community.homey.app/u/Sebastien_Simonet)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/43 "2021-04-12T19:27:51Z")
What valve and what ON/OFF module bought you ? Thks ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Ubels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_ubels/32/18860_2.png) [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/44 "2021-04-12T19:52:45Z")
Gardena has smart sensors. Gives moisture, soil temperature, lux and temperature. They just introduced new sensors, cheaper and smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Thierry\_Sabatier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_sabatier/32/33929_2.png) [@Thierry\_Sabatier](https://community.homey.app/u/Thierry_Sabatier)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/45 "2021-04-12T21:01:15Z")
Ok thank you, I have to open the Homey application then for example the Zigbee icon and try to connect an unlisted Zigbee device, that’s it. ? Otherwise I see that in the Homey application you have 6 possibilities, why do I only have 3? “Z wave”, “Zigbee” and “Infrared”? I see you also have “virtual camera”, “virtual switch” … ---
**Author:** ![Rens\_Hoekema](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rens_hoekema/32/12848_2.png) [@Rens\_Hoekema](https://community.homey.app/u/Rens_Hoekema)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/46 "2021-04-12T21:14:34Z")
That’s it. I have experimental virtual devices enabled ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Bittner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_bittner/32/16698_2.png) [@Peter\_Bittner](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Bittner)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/47 "2021-04-13T01:13:48Z")
What network does linktap use? Is it Zigbee, zwave or 433mhz. ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/48 "2021-04-13T04:37:35Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/5/15e9ee9e09e649727f73db8b634e86d17546cf45.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/b/dbf3b26e23e146ce5a4d64b4810f164c1d215d81.jpeg) [Source](https://www.link-tap.com/#!/faq) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Bittner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_bittner/32/16698_2.png) [@Peter\_Bittner](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Bittner)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/49 "2021-04-13T06:53:51Z")
Thanks. And I believe that Zigbee uses the same frequency worldwide, so it will work fine in Australia. Is that correct? ---
**Author:** ![Thierry\_Sabatier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_sabatier/32/33929_2.png) [@Thierry\_Sabatier](https://community.homey.app/u/Thierry_Sabatier)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/50 "2021-04-13T08:17:28Z")
Ok thank, but how did you add these 3 virtual devices to the Homey app? ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/51 "2021-04-13T08:29:45Z")
Don’t understand your question, because I guess everything you need to know is shown in the screenshot. And this is another screenshot: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/0/800b8c970765c2bb9cb4017d04d61d613e178020.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![kietu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kietu/32/15136_2.png) [@kietu](https://community.homey.app/u/kietu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/52 "2021-04-13T08:37:59Z")
I used thed valve you can see on the picture (sorry I don’t manage to find my order and the reference !.. I suppose I bought it directly from Wish or Aliexpress, I cannot remember ☹ Concerning the ON/OFF module, I bought a simple inexpensive ZBMINI Zigbee that I put inside a dedicated isolated box. I wanted to dismantle all my installation each winter, so I made it simple ! (but all works great !!) ![IMG_20200731_155006911](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/d/8dc18b9958b53193f97373bd0ebd83a1e4b1c87f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rens\_Hoekema](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rens_hoekema/32/12848_2.png) [@Rens\_Hoekema](https://community.homey.app/u/Rens_Hoekema)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/53 "2021-04-13T08:51:21Z")
in the app: settings–\> Experiments ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/54 "2021-04-13T17:16:33Z")
Linktap is an Australian company so hopefully it works there 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/55 "2021-04-15T19:29:18Z")
First some words about Linktap: I have a LinkTag G2 installed and it’s working great witk Adrians App. In addition I created a virtual switch. - ON starts a Flow where I can start watering for a specific time - OFF starts a Flow where I can stop watering immediatly Two other flows are acting on the state change (if the valve is opening/closing on stored plan via LinkTap Android app) to change the virtual switch state. Now to your question: I habe some Xiaomi Mi Flora sensors. You can connect them to Homey via Bluetooh using the XiaomiMiFlora app. My sensors are out of Homeys BT range. To solve this, I use an ESP32 to read sensors via BT and propagate the data via Wifi to a MQTT-Broker. This way your can place the sensors and the ESP32 somewhere in Wifi range. In Homey you can install MQTT broker app and MQTT client app to read the MQTT topics via Flow. This way (direct BT or via ESP32/MQTT) you can react on sensor changes to change the LinkTap mode (or just activate/deactivate the mode) using Flows. Some details about the sensors (sorry, german only 🙂 ): > [@Xiaomi Mi Pflanzensensor](https://community.homey.app/t/xiaomi-mi-pflanzensensor/46014): > > Wie sind Deine Erfahrungen damit? Wo liegt die ungefähre Reichweite? Sind die zu empfehlen? ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/56 "2021-04-16T07:42:24Z")
@RonnyW I hope you don’t mind but I have stolen your idea 🙂 I have added an On / Off capability to the app in v0.0.8. So you no longer need the virtual switch or the flows. ---
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/57 "2021-04-16T08:43:35Z")
Of course, please feel free to implement all these ideas. Makes LinkTap easier to use 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Thierry\_Sabatier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_sabatier/32/33929_2.png) [@Thierry\_Sabatier](https://community.homey.app/u/Thierry_Sabatier)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/58 "2021-04-18T12:57:57Z")
hello, I will definitely buy a LinkTap. On my current installation I have a Gardena pressure reducer for my drip irrigation, should I keep the pressure reducer or the Linktape valve also serves as a reducer? I understand that yes? and in this case how do you regulate the pressure? ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/59 "2021-04-18T14:00:36Z")
Good choice. The LinkTap is just on and off so you would keep the pressure reducer after the value. ---
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/60 "2021-04-18T19:54:35Z")
The small version you can add directly to Linktap. Just remove the Gardena Quicklink and screw the pressure reducer upon the Linktap. ![20210418_215233](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/4/4476f1d14f50a25ae684501f62ae29550ee473a4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Thierry\_Sabatier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thierry_sabatier/32/33929_2.png) [@Thierry\_Sabatier](https://community.homey.app/u/Thierry_Sabatier)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854/61 "2021-04-18T21:30:53Z")
Ok, thanks … but what is the little black connector? what is it used for ? [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/garden-watering/45854.md?page=4)