I am in the states, but I would love to get something that monitors soil moisture with my irrigation system…so I am certainly interested in this project. How do you keep them protected from the weather?
A better test would be a sample of soil from the yard that is saturated to the point of dripping through a colander. Different soil types have different water holding capacities.
Yeah I’ve been in the habit of glass of water during the build process (for initial hardware testing), and then setting my final 100% and 0% values from insitu saturation / dry tests a little later on.