Question about picking soil type.
If I had a plant in normal potting soil, what kind of soil type should I pick in this application?
I live on Long Island NY, if I plant something in the garden in regular outside soil that is already there, what soil should I pick in the application?
Thanks in advance
“If I had a plant in normal potting soil, what kind of soil type should I pick in this application?”
I have the same question. Just got my PlantLinks hooked up, hopefully I can move my plants back outside in a few weeks.
Does anybody know what type of soil “Miracle Grow Potting Soil” or something similar would be? That should be a basic choice for the PlantLink soil choices by the way! That soil flow chart they have is too complicated for me.
Found this
Miracle Grow specialty potting mixes are created for growing exotic potted plants. Because each potted exotic plant has different growing requirements, the in-container potting mixes vary in soil composition. Each potting mix may contain a blend of loam, aggregates and fertilizer
I have set all mine to loam
I am using Kristopher’s plant link device the but there is no notification app for that??
Does anyone know if the this integrator still works? I see the last update was 2015-6-18.
I can’t get smartthings to automatically detect the sensor with the Plant link integration device handler. It just looks indefinitely. I tried cycling the link and the hub a couple dozen times to no avail.
Thanks.
Mine still works
My plantlink has been calibrating for 2.5 days. Is there something wrong ? The app says connected to my plantlink but don’t see anything other than Calibrating. The plantlink website doesn’t show I have any link active.
sounds like something went wrong. Logs? I would rerun through the app set up
I reinstalled the device and app and it seems connected. I installed the plantlink direct monitor. Where do I see the nice info layout like above ? Each time I click on the smartapp on my phone, it just goes to settings for the direct monitor and no real soil info. Thanks.
I am sorry but I don’t follow your question.
If you are using the default DTH and the Default ST Plantlink app, you should have a plantlink account that you created. You put that in the Plantlink app, so ST know to ship the data over to them. Withing 60 min, the plant should show up, and you can do additional, settings in the plantlink app or website.
If you are using the custom DTH, I am sorry, I can’t help with that.
Thanks for your reply. I am using the Plantlink Connector that is supported by Smartthings. I see my sensor in the Myplantlink dashboard (showing up twice, I know that is a bug from reading other posts). But I can’t see any data! I don’t see any moisture info or anything. I click on the calendar and from there can’t click to anything else. I see settings and soil but basically no data is showing anywhere about the soil or anything else. My battery level is shown as Low and I am waiting from AAAA batteries to arrive. Is that why nothing is on the website for me to see?
what is the recent activity showing in ST? What do the Logs in ST show?
Here is what it repeats in the Logs every 15 mins. Another question is… Do i need to have a device handler installed on the IDE? I don’t have on installed there. Thanks.
2017-06-19 12:43:38.330 PM EDT
moments ago DEVICE plantStatus Low Battery Plant Link plant status is Low Battery
2017-06-19 12:43:38.317 PM EDT
moments ago APP_COMMAND setStatusIcon PlantLink Connector sent setStatusIcon command to Plant Link
2017-06-19 12:43:37.528 PM EDT
moments ago DEVICE moisture_status
moisture_status
{“type”:“link”,“signal”:"0x00… Plant Link moisturestatus is {“type”:“link”,“signal”:“0x00”,“zigbeedeviceid”:“0022A300000A36C0”,“created”:1497890617,"moisture…
2017-06-19 12:43:36.924 PM EDT
moments ago DEVICE battery_status
battery_status
{“type”:“link”,“signal”:"0x00… Plant Link batterystatus is {“type”:“link”,“signal”:“0x00”,"zigb
is that that log for the probe or the app? Looks like the probe to me. What does the app log look like?
The battery might be the issue. Keep them on hand. if moisture gets inside, it will drain the batteries in a day or less.
Thanks again for your help. Here it is for the App (I think) … Not much info here:
Date Source Type Name Value User Displayed Text Changed
2017-06-19 12:43:38.317 PM EDT
12 minutes ago APP_COMMAND setStatusIcon PlantLink Connector sent setStatusIcon command to Plant Link true
2017-06-19 12:29:17.523 PM EDT
27 minutes ago APP_COMMAND setStatusIcon PlantLink Connector sent setStatusIcon command to Plant Link true
2017-06-19 12:29:09.588 PM EDT
27 minutes ago APP_COMMAND setStatusIcon PlantLink Connector sent setStatusIcon command to Plant Link true
2017-06-19 12:14:39.659 PM EDT
41 minutes ago APP_COMMAND setStatusIcon PlantLink Connector sent setStatusIcon command to Plant Link true
ok, everything looks ok as far as i can tell i would say give it 24-48 hours then open a support case with plantlink
OK thanks for all of your prompt replies, I really appreciate it.
Last question… Where on the plantlink website do you see the soil info? I go to Dashboarrd and I see my sensors… do I click on the calendar… or what?
Thanks!
Click on the sensor then click edit.
I cannot seem to get the plantlink to pair using the plantlink direct. I have created the device handler from code, but if I try to add device from my mobile it does not find and if I add a device from the computer it does not show any data in smart things. Not even the battery level. Do I need to add the mac address in my devices?
I’ve had the plantlink working for 6 months. Today it stopped reading moisture, so I pulled the batteries and reset it.
I then added it back to smartthings. I then started going through the Plantlink connector setup:
It is at step 3 where I get “an unexpected error has occurred”
From the log:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Command ‘setStatusIcon’ is not supported by device 3b9d62a3-7979-433a-a848-08892f0193fc of type ‘Plant Link’. Supported commands: [ping] @ line 114
Can’t seem to get past this, having cycled through a few times. Always the same error.
Thoughts?