Advice on flora / plant manager like xiaomi one

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Hello to all
i want to have a device like Xiaomi Flora, altough it would be in a area far away from my PI, so i can only use wifi or eventually zigbee to acess it.
is there any device that i can use ? thank you in advance

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Hello,

If you have wifi you can use an esp32 to act as a ble to wifi gateway.
You don’t need to add any other component.

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Thanks. Can you give me a link of the hardware?

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This one has interesting range:

Here is my range test results:

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Hard to install ?

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Whether you find it hard or not I don’t know. I had a few hiccups but managed to get over them. My friends would take one look, yawn and move on.

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Do I need to flash or change anything or just config software? If programming needed what hardware will I need?

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You don’t need additionnal hardware to flash the esp32. You will just connect it by micro usb and flash it with arduino ide or esptool.
Depending on the gateway software choosen you will have different configuration work to do.

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You can do this with esphome (esphome.io). As long as you are comfortable flashing an esp32 it’s easy :slight_smile:

See here
https://esphome.io/components/sensor/xiaomi_miflora.html

Esphome provides also a flashing tool and it works the best of any I used