I currently have a flower power to monitor my plants. The unfortunate problem is that this $50 device looses connection constantly, doesn’t provide push notifications consistently, nor does it help to monitor my plants and let me know if they need help. I have tried to use it for about 8 months and it is just time to look for another product.
I saw the Plantlink in the ST app. I was looking to get some feedback on it. Does it need its own hub? Does it work well with ST?
Plantlink has its own hub and can be used with it, however if you buy just the Plantlink sensor, it will connect directly to ST as it is a Zigbee device.
Hopefully some others will chime in on their experience with it.
The sensors work fine alone, they pair directly to ST by holding down the button until it is found. I am using the plant link direct device type as I don’t use the hub.
I have 4 of them. Work Ok, I use the Oso device handler. I like there dashboard, but dislike I can’t build rules off of it. I am told you can with the Kubicki device handler, but his does not push back to PlantLinks Dashboard.
I have two. The paired w/o any issues and reliably report status. FYI, in a couple of back-and-forths with their support people, they seemed to imply that they were working on a new generation of devices. Hopefully they will be both cheaper and also ST compatible.
I see what they are going after but I have a rain machine so I just need sensors. The RM is great but the code I use with ST hasn’t worked. I’m hoping to use senots with the code to run commands.
I am not sure I understand your reply to my reply. I have 4 plant links. There are 2 device handlers. The official one pumps all the data back to PlantLink and their dashboard. I cannot use any of the plantlink data to turn water on and off. I am told that if I switch to the Kubicki device handler, it will be visible to things like Rule Machine so that I can use that data to turn water on and off, but the data would not go back to plantlink.
Like @LadySapphy I’m not sure I understand your reply. I was just letting @chickwebb know what I found in response to the fact that they were told by PlantLink that there is a new device coming.