Automation to notify if any plants require watering?

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So I’m currently playing around with plant sensor and I’m already realizing that it’s going to be tedious to define automations for every single plant reminding me to water them.

I know I could probably write a Python script that iterates through all my plants and figures out which ones need watering, but for now I figured I could do with an easier solution.

Can I simply use the group.all_plants and define an automation that will notify if any plants are problematic?

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Did you find an elegant solution ?

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Well, OP never posted any relevant information about his plant sensors. I would assume this is why no one assisted him. If you can post information about your plant sensor, people may be able to help. I personally ordered a few plant sensors and they arrive in about 3 weeks. I’ll be tackling this issue first hand. However, I know that they don’t have a ‘hey water me’ attribute. Meaning the automation may differ depending on the plant sensor.

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I have a few plants and 1 group called all_plants.
The idea would be an automation that check all the entity of the group and notify if there is a problem with the detial of the problem

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Ok, for you I would expect and automation like this:

- alias: Notify of plant problem
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.plants
    to: problem
  action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data_template:
      message: >
        {%- set problems = expand('group.plants') | selectattr('state','eq','problem') | list %}
        {%- if problems | count > 1 %}
          There are {{ problems | count }} problems:
        {%- else %}
          There is 1 problem:
        {%- endif %}
        {%- for problem in problems %}
          {{ problem.name }} - {{ problem.attributes.problem }}
        {%- endfor %}
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Thousand of thanks, it works perfectly as I wanted :slight_smile:

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Thanks! this helped me out a lot! Works perfectly
Is there a way to have friendly names for the plants and the problems the plant has?

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the template does that already…

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But my plant is listed as: plant_case and the problem is in English. Don’t mind but want to perfect the message, also for google assistant later on.

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that’s the friendly_name. Are you sure you renamed the plant? You can also try

problem.attributes.friendly_name

and the problem will be in English because the attribute problem is in english. You’ll have to translate it if you want another langauge.

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So this is my MiFlora plant:

- platform: miflora
  mac: 'C4:7C:8D:67:8B:15'
  monitored_conditions:
    - moisture
    - light
    - temperature
    - conductivity
    - battery
  name: 'Case'

I’ve named him Case.
Then I made a plant entitie:

plant_case:
  sensors:
    moisture: sensor.case_moisture
    battery: sensor.case_battery
    temperature: sensor.case_temperature
    conductivity: sensor.case_conductivity
    brightness: sensor.case_light_intensity
  min_moisture: 15
  max_moisture: 60
  min_battery: 10
  min_conductivity: 350
  max_conductivity: 2000

But here I can’t give it a friendly name.
My group looks like this:

plants:
  entities:
    - plant.plant_case
    - plant.plant_marty
  name: Alle planten

And this is my automation to notify which plant is having problem:

- alias: Notify of plant problem
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.plants
    to: problem
  action:
  - service: telegram_bot.send_message
    data_template:
      message: >
        {%- set problems = expand('group.plants') | selectattr('state','eq','problem') | list %}
        {%- if problems | count > 1 %}
          Er zijn {{ problems | count }} problemen:
        {%- else %}
          Er is 1 probleem:
        {%- endif %}
        {%- for problem in problems %}
          {{ problem.name }} - {{ problem.attributes.problem }}
        {%- endfor %}

I can see there is a friendly_name for each plant. but it’s shown as plant_case.
If I try to add friendly name myself to the plant my configuration checker says that friendly name is not an valid option for plant.

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Name your plant via the UI in Configuration -> Customizations or in customizations.yaml

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14

That did the trick! thank you!

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Hi. I am having problems with the messages that are generated. It doesn’t show the plant name or error just says “There is 1 problem:”. What is wrong in here as I can’t seem to figure it out?

Here is the plant attributes:

problem: none sensors: moisture: sensor.blue_fern_moisture battery: sensor.blue_fern_battery temperature: sensor.blue_fern_temperature conductivity: sensor.blue_fern_conductivity brightness: sensor.blue_fern_light_intensity unit_of_measurement_dict: moisture: '%' battery: '%' temperature: °C conductivity: µS/cm brightness: lx moisture: 45 battery: 100 temperature: 22.8 conductivity: 1869 brightness: 2794 max_brightness: 2794 friendly_name: Blue Fern

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Did you find a solution for your problem?