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Looking to keep your plants healthy with real-time monitoring? 🌱 In this video, I review the Tuya Zigbee Smart Soil Sensor — a handy tool that tracks soil moisture, temperature, and battery levels directly in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT.
I’ll walk you through: ✅ Unboxing the Zigbee version of the sensor ✅ Setting it up with Zigbee2MQTT ✅ Pairing it with Home Assistant ✅ Real-time data tracking for soil moisture and temperature ✅ A quick demo with my potted plant
This sensor is a game-changer for any smart garden setup, and it works flawlessly with Home Assistant for automated watering alerts!
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Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jySrDj-xIH0
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Hey all, today we’re looking at this — a soil humidity sensor to help keep your plants healthy. This is the Zigbee version, so let’s unbox it. Inside we have the little probe, the manual (“thank you for purchasing this plant monitor”), and that’s about it. It takes two AAA batteries, so we’ll do that right now. The back is removable — there’s a little cover and then the main back panel that you can pop open.
I’m back with some AAA batteries, and we’ll just pop them in like that. I think we’ll leave the back open for now, because there’s a pairing button in there, and we’re going to pair it with Home Assistant.
I’m in Zigbee2MQTT and I’ll try to pair this device. You hold the button for a few seconds and the light starts to flash — it’s very faint, a blue blinking light. Okay, it’s found the device and paired successfully. It says it’s a TS0601_soil_3. We get a little picture of the device and what’s exposed: soil moisture, temperature, temperature units, battery, battery state, and link quality. So this will keep track of soil moisture and temperature.
Now we’ll pop the back on, put on the little silicone cover, and put it into a potted plant. Here we are — this is my parlour palm. I’ve had it for several years and it’s pretty healthy. I’ll just stick the probe into the soil, turn it around, and hopefully that’s enough. I haven’t watered this in about a week, so I have a cup of water which I’ll carefully pour into the soil, and then we’ll see what it looks like in Home Assistant after the watering.
We’re back in Home Assistant, and if we click on the moisture graph, we can see it stabilises after a while. It seems to report back about every 5 minutes with current moisture readings, and the same goes for soil temperature. That about wraps it up for the data returned by this Tuya soil sensor.
I’m pretty happy with it — I might pick up another one. There’s a link in the description below if you’re interested in grabbing one for yourself. Don’t forget to like and subscribe, and I’ll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.