What is your opinion?
For my point of view, the results are ok. I do not have other soil sensors. I tried to wrote the post so anyone could decide if it is enough or not.
What would you like to know?
Iâd be interested to know what the battery life is like? Are you using the one with solar indoors or outdoors?
Still testing , but i see a litle trend to the soil moisture stuck ( like its green brother ) I compared it too an mi flora.
Has you see on the next picture he moves from 24 to 28% moisture when i put some good water, but the day before i had put (only) half a glass of water and he didnt move
This is the graphic off the miflora in the same vase 
Well the Xiaomi mi flora is not the best either for this measure , and the diference of arround 20 % between them is a lot, but the trend is similar, althow the miflora did move either with the first time i put a half of a glass of water.
One thing to note: In the instructions that came with the sensor is written that the sensor is not suppose to be uses on small vases as it could interfer with the readings .
I have mine on the balcony, and the first reason i bought this sensor is to not have to ever recharge them , lets see if i can achieve thatâŠ
By the way , mostly because of that i think this sensor missing an iluminance sensor or some sensor who measure the power of its solar panel and so we would know who good the batteries are being recharged and at the same time how good the plants are getting sun.
Since the first day i,m using it he is at 79% of batteries, never recharged them.
Althow i can see how much sunlight he is getting (+/-)because of the miflora next to him.
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I got the non solar version, and the humidity is stuck at 16, and the temp is definetly wrong. It says 28Âș and we are at 13Âș
This is what my sensor says, and compared to official temps for yesterday, min was 6Âș and max 16Âș
This one doesnt seems to have that issue.
The temperature readings changes a lot matching the enviornment.
The humidity not that much, i still think it get stuck some Times, but to be fair i have it in a pot outside and its been very humidity on the air, so maybe that readings is a little true, at least it have a reason to be always +/- the same, the values it self should be higher i think, it just needs to be calibrated⊠Today it rained a bit and the sensor has read that increase of humidity.
Yellow is temperature and blue humidity(moisture.
HI there, Iâve just bought the ZigBee version of the sensor _TZE284_aao3yzhs and for some reason the update interval is very random. It hasnât been updated for 12 hours now, when I repaired it was updated instantly. Do you have this issue? The LQI is 46. Thanks!
Thanks for confirming. At least Iâm not alone. Would be great if we can set some interval that we want to make it consistent.
Update: I notice the temperature gets updated more often though, but not to the moisture. Is that also the same behaviour with yours?
Temp likely changes more often. When I built out the quirk for ZHA, I would test by putting the sensor in water; it would send an update right away. If there isnât a change it can be a long delay. They donât seem to have great battery life, so every little bit of power savings helps.
I see. Mine been not updated for 6 hours straight now. Wonder when it will be updated. Not very reliable to track the moisture it seems
Just curious if anyone else is using the Third Reality 3RSM0147Z? Z2M pairs with it just fine, but it doesnât expose a moisture value, and the Z2M page doesnât seem to indicate it should?
How can this be called a soil moisture sensor if it doesnât track soil moisture?
The soil must be reading too high (pegged at 100%). It will only send an updated measurement when it changes, so it can take a long time waiting for the soil to dry below 100%.
I also have this device and hate it. It has some unreliable filtering algorithm that makes it read 100% even when the soil doesnât have much water at all. It seems like they didnât calibrate the sensor range maximum. Itâs unreliable and more inconsistent than my miflora devices.
I would NOT recommend this device to anyone.
I have 3 of those and concur. They suck. All over the place and direct sunlight messes greatly with their readings.
I have bought and tried a few of the Zigbee Tuya type soil sensors. And theyâre all not good in their own ways. So far the Xiaomi BLE has been the most reliable thing (but battery life sucks). Still trying out the Ecowitt sensors.
All the Tuya soil sensors types seem to have quality control issues. Like half of the units work ok, and are usable to some degree after applying your own scaling factors in home assistant. But couldnât recommend any of them.
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Thanks for letting us know. Iâm unsure if I should get a few more. I notice it gets updated quickly when I water the soil on it or from rain.
However as stated above, it can takes very long time until the moisture level changes.