Soil moisture sensor

Devices
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hello, I would like to automate my vegetable garden and I am looking for a Homey compatible soil moisture sensor.

I already have Xiaomi mi Flora for my indoor plants but in bluetooth the distance is not sufficient.

do you know of a sensor with another Homety-compatible technology?

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You can read something here.
https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-misol-and-ecowitt-release-0-1-29-test-0-1-34/47076

Quote from that page"
The app works with the Misol Gateway https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000852618353.html
and the Misol Soil Moisture sensor https://www.aliexpress.com/i/33056433752.html ".

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I have myself these soil moisture sensors from Ecowitt for outdoor purpose in use. They work flawless with the Misol and Ecowitt app from @Adrian_Rockall.
Up to 8 sensors can be connected to the GW1000 Wi-Fi Gateway.

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Thank you for your answers. you have therefore automated your vegetable garden. can you show me your feeds to give me an idea.

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No, I don’t have a vegetable garden and at the moment I don’t have automated irrigation.
At the moment I only monitor the moisture of a few planters. If the humidity becomes too low I get a notification, nothing more.

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Something combined with a weather and a timer app, like:
(I shouldn’t use the build-in ‘delay’ for this, while it vanishes after a Homey outage / reboot.
Chronograph timers continue after Homey has started)

  • Flow part 1
    When…
    sensor_veg-garden moisture is changed
    And…
    -moisture < 20
    And…
    -time is between 18 and 21 h
    And…
    -rain precipitation today < 1
    And
    -rain precipitation tomorrow < 1
    And
    -rain precipitation 2 days < 1
    Then…
    -turn water valve Y on
    -start timer (I prefer Chronograph) veg-garden_irrigation with a duration of 1 h

  • Flow part 2
    When…
    -timer veg-garden_irrigation is finished
    Then…
    -turn water valve Y off
    -send push message to user A "Timer veg-garden_irrigation has finished - Water valve Y should be closed now, check if irrigation has finished
    (you don’t want water valve to be open when it’s not supposed to).

  • Flow part 3
    Unnecessary irrigation / water valve check:
    When…
    -sensor_veg-garden moisture is changed
    And…
    -moisture > 50
    Then…
    -turn water valve Y off
    -send push message to user A "Moisture veg-garden is over 50% - Water valve Y should be closed now, check if irrigation has finished
    (you don’t want water valve to be open when it’s not supposed to).

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Thanks you

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@Mike1233 and @DirkG

Hello to you

thank you for your help, I received my order Ali… and I proceeded with the installation.
This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again

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