Some plants need a lot of water, others less. Some frequent, others less frequent. For me it was hard to keep track of all this, so I’ve made a blueprint that keeps track of this for me.
Description
This blueprint will send you a notification, with an optional photo of the plant, on a set hour on the date it needs watering. It is advised to water your plants in the evening or early in the morning, so you can determine yourself when you want to be reminded.
Once you’ve watered your plant, you press the action in the notification. This will ‘snooze’ te reminder for the interval you’ve setup in the blueprint. If you skip a day, the notification will be sent the next day at the set time until you snooze it again.
Note: this blueprint doesn’t take the weather into account and is intended for plants inside the house.
Features
Sends the notification at the set hour when the ‘watering date’ has been reached.
The notification can contain an optional image of the plant.
Using the actionable notification you can ‘snooze’ the notification until the next time the plan needs water.
The blueprint requires an input_datetime (set to date) entity to keep track of the date a plant needs watering. You can create one entity for each plant, or for all your plants. This is of course up to you.
blueprint:
name: Reminder to water a plant
description: 'Sends a daily notification with a water reminder for plants, until the plants have been watered. An optional image can be attached to help identify the plant.'
domain: automation
input:
plant_date:
name: Date sensor
description: "This entity will hold the date of the next time a plant needs watering. It needs to be an input_datetime helper entity set to 'Date'."
selector:
entity:
domain: input_datetime
plant_image:
name: Image of the plant
description: "An image of the plant to be watered. Image needs to be in the www folder: '/www/plant.png' will need '/local/plant.png' to be filled in. Smaller images load faster in the notification."
default: []
selector:
text:
reminder_time:
name: Reminder time
description: "Time when the reminder should be sent. Advice: water plants in the evening."
default: '20:00'
selector:
time:
interval_days:
name: Interval in days
description: "The interval between the watering of the plant"
default: 7
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 50
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: days
notification_title:
name: Title of the notfication
description: "Title of the notification that will be sent."
default: "Plant needs water!"
selector:
text:
notification_message:
name: Message of the notfication
description: "Message of the notification that will be sent."
default: "Give just enough water to make the soil a bit moist. Make sure the leaves don't get wet."
selector:
text:
action_name:
name: Name of the action
description: "Name of the action in the actionable notification."
default: "The plant just had water"
selector:
text:
notify_device:
name: Notify device
description: "The device where the notification should be sent to."
selector:
text:
need_water_action:
name: Need water action
default: []
description: "If you want an extra action to happen when the plant needs water, apart from sending the notification, you can define one here. For example: a light turns blue"
selector:
action: {}
had_water_action:
name: Had water action
default: []
description: "If you want an extra action to happen when the plant had water you can define one here. For example: a light turns green"
selector:
action: {}
variables:
datetime_entity: !input plant_date
interval: !input interval_days
identifier: |
{{ datetime_entity.split('.')[1] }}
trigger:
- platform: time
at: !input reminder_time
id: trigger_time
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
id: trigger_app
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ states(datetime_entity) <= now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}}
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: trigger_app
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ trigger.event.data.action == identifier }}
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
target:
entity_id: |
{{ datetime_entity }}
data:
date: |
{{ as_timestamp( now() + timedelta(days=interval) ) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') }}
- choose: []
default: !input 'had_water_action'
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: trigger_time
sequence:
- service: !input notify_device
data:
data:
actions:
- title: !input action_name
action: |
{{ identifier }}
image: !input plant_image
title: !input notification_title
message: !input notification_message
- choose: []
default: !input 'need_water_action'
How do you mean?
This blueprint is bases on a input_datetime sensor to keep track of when the plant needs water. This sensor can also be used on your frontend to display the next time a plant needs wafer.
For example, I use the plant sensors to report that the plant needs watering. Time is not the most exact trigger, it would be cool if sensor value could trigger this.
Ah, you mean for example a moisture sensor that will trigger the notification whenever the soil becomes too dry?
I don’t have such sensors, so I can’t implement it here. But sure, I think it is possible!
I have plants that should have different watering schedules in the off-season.
So I altered the blueprint to add this functionality. Have not tested it fully because have to wait a bit on the event to trigger.
blueprint:
name: Reminder to water a plant
description: 'Sends a daily notification with a water reminder for plants, until the plants have been watered. An optional image can be attached to help identify the plant.'
domain: automation
input:
plant_date:
name: Date sensor
description: "This entity will hold the date of the next time a plant needs watering. It needs to be an input_datetime helper entity set to 'Date'."
selector:
entity:
domain: input_datetime
plant_begin_month_off_season:
name: Month number begin off season
description: "The month number when the off season begins (ie. Winter)"
default: 10
selector:
number:
min: 1
max: 12
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: month
plant_end_month_off_season:
name: Month number begin off season
description: "The month number when the off season begins (ie. Spring)"
default: 4
selector:
number:
min: 1
max: 12
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: month
plant_image:
name: Image of the plant
description: "An image of the plant to be watered. Image needs to be in the www folder: '/www/plant.png' will need '/local/plant.png' to be filled in. Smaller images load faster in the notification."
default: []
selector:
text:
reminder_time:
name: Reminder time
description: "Time when the reminder should be sent. Advice: water plants in the evening."
default: '20:00'
selector:
time:
interval_days:
name: Interval in days
description: "The interval between the watering of the plant"
default: 7
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 50
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: days
interval_days_off_season:
name: Interval in days (Off season)
description: "The interval between the watering of the plant in the off season"
default: 30
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 100
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: days
notification_title:
name: Title of the notfication
description: "Title of the notification that will be sent."
default: "Plant needs water!"
selector:
text:
notification_message:
name: Message of the notfication
description: "Message of the notification that will be sent."
default: "Give just enough water to make the soil a bit moist. Make sure the leaves don't get wet."
selector:
text:
action_name:
name: Name of the action
description: "Name of the action in the actionable notification."
default: "The plant just had water"
selector:
text:
notify_device:
name: Notify device
description: "The device where the notification should be sent to."
selector:
device:
variables:
datetime_entity: !input plant_date
interval_days: !input interval_days
plant_begin_month_off_season: !input plant_begin_month_off_season
plant_end_month_off_season: !input plant_end_month_off_season
interval: >
{% if plant_begin_month_off_season >= state_attr('input_datetime.sanseveria_begin_date_off_season', 'month') <= plant_end_month_off_season %}
{{ interval_days_off_season }}
{% else %}
{{ interval_days }}
{% endif %}
identifier: |
{{ datetime_entity.split('.')[1] }}
trigger:
- platform: time
at: !input reminder_time
id: trigger_time
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
id: trigger_app
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ states(datetime_entity) <= now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}}
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: trigger_app
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ trigger.event.data.action == identifier }}
sequence:
- service: input_datetime.set_datetime
target:
entity_id: |
{{ datetime_entity }}
data:
date: |
{{ as_timestamp( now() + timedelta(days=interval) ) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') }}
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: trigger_time
sequence:
- domain: mobile_app
type: notify
device_id: !input notify_device
title: !input notification_title
message: !input notification_message
data:
actions:
- title: !input action_name
action: |
{{ identifier }}
image: !input plant_image
Added the following to the blueprint:
plant_begin_month_off_season:
name: Month number begin off season
description: "The month number when the off season begins (ie. Winter)"
default: 10
selector:
number:
min: 1
max: 12
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: month
plant_end_month_off_season:
name: Month number begin off season
description: "The month number when the off season begins (ie. Spring)"
default: 4
selector:
number:
min: 1
max: 12
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: month
variables:
datetime_entity: !input plant_date
interval_days: !input interval_days
plant_begin_month_off_season: !input plant_begin_month_off_season
plant_end_month_off_season: !input plant_end_month_off_season
interval: >
{% if plant_begin_month_off_season >= state_attr('input_datetime.sanseveria_begin_date_off_season', 'month') <= plant_end_month_off_season %}
{{ interval_days_off_season }}
{% else %}
{{ interval_days }}
{% endif %}
Sounds like a good addition!
Unfortunately I don’t have time to test the blueprint. If you want you can post a new blueprint with your addition and I will refer to yours in my post above.
Thanks for this blueprint. I really needed this setup. One feature I would like to see is notification to a second device, such as sending a message to my phone but also change a light color to blue to indicate watering needed. Is that possible?
I get the notification every Day, even though I did set it between 1 & 7 Days depending on the plant. Id this because I usually swipe the notification away?
If you’re like me and you postpone the watering of your plants, you can make a conditional card in your dashboard to show the number of days the plants have been waiting for water:
