Mi Flora is visible only within 30 cm from BT dongle

[Bit-River]

If you don’t mind getting a Raspberry Pi Zero, here’s how I use them to read all my Mi Flora sensors.

Mi Flora plant sensor

I went a different route to solve this, and put hassbian on a Pi Zero. I didn’t run any special code versions, just checked that the MiFlora mac addresses were detected with sudo hcitool lescan Which they were without any extra settings on my part. Setup the miflora as normal on the pi zero hassbian: - platform: miflora mac: 'c4:7c:8a:6c:3b:69' force_update: true cache_value: 600 name: miflora_1 Then in my main hassio install, I used the rest sensor to get the data via th…

I’ve mine 10+ metres away, but still no problem. I do have the RPi 0 up on the top of a cabinet, think that helps a surprising amount too.