If you are the owner of a plant monitoring device, eg a Xiaomi Mi Flora BLE device, there is a couple of nice integrations for you to get a little bit better control of your plants.
The solution for this is basically 4 integrations or front-end cards combined to get a nice overview of your plant.
- Integration to the Openplantbook
- Integration to Plant monitor
- Frontend “card-tools”
- Frontend “Flower Card”
The Openplantbook integration gives Home Assistant a connection to a large flower database. This is not mandatory for this solution, but it sure gives a lot of information for free. I will recommend connecting to this database.
The connection is pretty easy. First, you have to register on the https://open.plantbook.io/ page. You need an account here, to create an API key to use in Home Assistant.
Then you have to install the Open Plantbook integration via HACS, this is a custom repository so follow the instructions here: https://github.com/Olen/home-assistant-openplantbook
After you have rebooted Home Assistant, just add a new integration (Openplantbook) and enter your API keys here.
I will recommend you to “configure” this integration and tick off “download plant images”, just remember to create the folders where you want the plant images in Home Assistant.
Now you have to install the Flower Card, just follow the instructions here: https://github.com/Olen/lovelace-flower-card/
This new card will make a new nice card for your Home Assistant plant dashboard
Last but not least, you need to install the Plant Monitor. This is also a custom integration in HACS, but there is an easy instruction here: https://github.com/Olen/homeassistant-plant#install-this-integration
When you reboot Home Assistant after the installation, and if you have some plants in configuration.yaml – they are now automatically imported to the new integration. the plant is a new “device” in Home Assistant, and moisture/conductivity/Illuminance/temperature are entities.
