Make Sensors act from "profiles"

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Hi fellow makers,

I had the idea to automate my herb garden. Basically I have 4 humidity sensors in 4 different flowering pots measure the humidity and 4 pumps acting accordingly.
Now, for the logic behind that, i wanted create three different profiles for the flowering pots, namely “dry”, for herbs like thyme, “moist” for herbs like basil and something in-between. The plan was to fix these profiles in a database and make the sensors read them before pumping.

So for example, the flow would be:

Measuring humidity every hour → Pot 2 has an actual humidity of 17% → check in DB how much the profile expects the pot to have (for example 30% for a medium profile) → Pump for Pot 2 is activated for 10 seconds → rinse and repeat every hour until expected value is reached.

I understood that the standard Home Assistant DB can be manipulated with the average DB Tool but is there maybe also a possibility to do it directly from the WebUI? For example if I replant an herb to another pot and I want to change said pot from “dry” to “medium”.

Or does anyone have a completely different idea for the architecture to save said profiles?

Any nudge in the right direction is much appreciated!

Additional Info:
Running Home Assistant and esphome in Docker on Ubuntu.
Sensors and Actors are connected to an ESP32.

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You can add custom attributes to any sensor.

So you could add something like this to your soil moisture sensors:

configuration.yaml

frontend:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

customize.yaml

sensor.thyme_soil_moisture:
  profile: "dry"  # alternatively you could add the actual % moisture target here. e.g.

sensor.basil_soil_moisture:
  target: 69
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Awesome! Thanks for the quick help, I’ll try it out and post a feedback here if it’s of interest