It appears so. The impact is also that the moisture levels measured will be different. I saw some dramatic changes for some of them, in both directions. So some might have to re-calibrate watering thresholds.
Which version will fix the “sensor-drop”. I see that my devices are using version 3.3.1 at the moment and that 3.3.5 is available. But the “release notes” for 3.3.5 only says that it fixes the light sensor.
Is the release notes for all versions available somewhere?
It was 3.3.3.
But thanks for info on 3.3.5, I hadn’t seen that one yet.
Is 3.3.5 working well for everyone? I’ve gotten a bit afraid of just updating my sensors after the drop issue which made my whole plant system useless until it got fixed.
Seems ok to me.
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I just randomly noticed that there is a new model number for the Flower Care / MiFlora device: HHCCJCY10 (old model number HHCCJCY01)
https://fccid.io/2AJEPHHCCJCY10
Looks like it is now Bluetooth 5 instead of 4.1 BLE.
Does anyone know anything? I will try if I can find it for sale somewhere.
Looks like this is the Tuya verion. HHCCJCY10 Flower Care User Manual 5503000001529_2020-12-05 HHCC Plant Technology (fccid.io). The same as Bluetooth APP Potted Plant Monitor Plant Flower Soil Detector Flora Moisture Fertilizer Smart Tester Sensor Garden Care Detector|Temperature Instruments| - AliExpress or newer. And the board seems to have been redesigned.
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Interesting. How can you tell that pink one is new version?
As far as I’ve seen, until now there was only a white version (global) and green version (chinese) (excluding the black non-BT version). In the user manual from FCC it’s stated that it is a tuya version, and it’s pink. So my assumption is that his is the same version as the one from the Aliexpress link, or a newer version of it.
I placed an order. So will see how it works soon.
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I just noticed something that I did not notice before upgrading to 3.3.3 and 3.3.5. But I could just have missed it.
It seems that some sensors never go below 10 or 11% moisture. I tried taking one of them out and wipe it dry. Even then it did not go below 6%.
Maybe it is not a huge deal as long as you know this behavior. But I had some catci with the minimum moisture set to 10 so they have just had a long dry winter.
@garethiowc May I know which is the card you are using to display the plant parameters from the Mi-Flora sensors? Thanks
Looks like this model is using Bluetooth 5.
https://githubhot.com/repo/custom-components/ble_monitor/issues/809
This is the custom Plant Picture Card from HACS I think
Yeah that’s me. A bit disappointed so far tbh. I hope they can improve it in the firmware.
What version of ESPHome are you on? I can’t get latest to work with BLE, wifi is super spotty so don’t upgrade to latest if you haven’t already
I’m using ESPHome version 2021.10.3 on this device, so not the newest EPHome as I saw no need doing. It’s running reasonable stable and I only need a device reset once in a few months or so. But that’s probably an hardware glitch.
Testing an OTA upgrade with the newest ESPHome on a spare BLE bridge (just did) seems to get stuck halfway. Tried this several times. Doing the manual upgrade is at the moment to much hassle.
If needed I can do this somewhere next week.
I went to this instead of ESPHome as I couldn’t get BLE to work GitHub - 1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway: MQTT gateway for ESP8266, ESP32, Sonoff RF Bridge or Arduino with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02, LYWSD03MMC, Mi Scale, TPMS, BBQ thermometer compatibility, SMS & LORA.
Has anyone had issues with the Xiaomi plant monitors, either white or green (older ones) where the light level seems stuck at 0 in Firmware 3.3.5?
I have more than ten units, both white and green, and they all show light level correctly. All were upgraded to 3.3.5 a few weeks ago.