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I bought one of these moisture probes and paired it with the SmartThings v1 hub. Everything works except it stops reporting after a period of time. The only way to get it reporting again is to power cycle the hub. I have many devices and don’t have issues requiring hub reboots so I am wondering if there is a problem with the device.
The moisture probe is within 25’ of the hub so it isn’t a matter of being too far away.
Any ideas?
I am looking at Spruce as well but concerned about needing an outdoor network to support 14 sensors. Has anyone found an outdoor Zigbee repeater that works well or other solutions?
Thanks
Tom
Have had my SPRUCE W/4 moisture probes for a week or so. One of the probes was defective when it arrived, but customer service replacement went smooth.
I put the controller in my garage, to keep it proteced from the weather, and that seems to have been a smart decision as it and the probes are all talking to the SmartThings Hub just fine.
Documentation isn’t the greatest. I think I’ve figured out most things, but the SmartThings app has been updated (good: I like to see initiative w/ updates and fixes and improvements; bad: no accompanying documentation that I’m aware of.
On the current Spruce app, can someone tell me:
1 - what is the “X min” button for?
2 - what is the “sensor” button for? It appears to be an ON / OFF button.
3 - what is the “START” button for?
I don’t know if these are for Manual operation or to start that day’s scheduled program?
Also something odd: it showed a scheduled irrigation for later in the day. I did a manual operation of a zone earlier in the day (had to scare off some geese), and I noticed the next morning that the evening automatically schedule irrigation cycle did not run ,or at least did not show up in the history logs.). Is this expected? Anything I might have mis-progammed?
Thanks in advance for any assistance…
I tried to write a Smart App to look at the Spruce Sensors. I used capability.humidity since that is what is reported in the device states display. Also tried temperature as a capability, but the device handler apparently does not advertise it’s capability (nothing on my network is advertising a humidity capability). The sensors report to ST all the time with temperature, humidity, min & max. The device handler does not show up under the device handler templates, so I am not sure how to attach my app to the sensors. You cannot buy the Spruce Controllers right now, so a homemade app is about the only choice for the Spruce Sensors.
Got my SmartApp for the Spruce Sensors going finally. So often when I get down in the weeds I forget to look up. The Smartthings capabilities reference did show that I should use “capability.relativeHumidityMeasurement” in my input statement. Then when I subscribed to the sensor it was just a subscribe to “humidity”.
In the SmartApp Handler a simple load from yourSensor.latestValue(“humidity”) which gets you the rounded (whole number) humidity value.
As I was writing this I got an email from Spruce directing me to http://support.spruceirrigation.com/knowledge-base/custom-code-2/ for tips on how to setup custom ST code for spruce. Nathan indicated the new WiFi controller ships next week, but the updated ST compatible controller is not yet shipping.