I am looking into getting some soil moisture sensors for irrigation control (rainmachine) and a few separate areas with smaller potted plants via a Wi-Fi water valve on the hose faucet. Eccobee has some sensors but Amazon says the response time is 70 seconds… that’s probably too long for my smaller…

Soil moisture sensors

tom_l May 10, 2023, 8:26am 5

After trying a home waterproofed Miflora, then some Zigbee moisture sensors given the same treatment, I now use one of these: Soil Moisture Sensor - VH400 Good topic on reliable ESP32 boards: ESPHome sensor calibration: sensor: - platform: adc pin: GPIO36 name: "Lawn Moisture Raw Voltage" id: raw_v unit_of_measurement: "V" device_class: voltage attenuation: 11db update_interval: 10s - platform: template name: "Lawn Moisture" unit_of_measurement: "%"…

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