Is this EFEKTA Zigbee Plant Watering Sensor compatibility with Home Assistant ZHA?

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha

Would like to know if its sensors and attributes are properly detected out-of-the-box by ZHA?

Blakadder open compatibility database list only confirms it working with Zigbee2MQTT:

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/EFEKTALAB_EFEKTA_PWS.html

@smartboxchannel Have you considered replacing CC2530 with a new TI CC26xx MCU like the CC2652 series or similar?

Should in theory make the battery last much longer and get better signal range, as well as make for more future-proof hardware with the potential of perhaps not only use Zigbee 3.0 but also even using Thread, Matter (Project CHIP), and/or Bluetooth via multi-protocol support as well.

Maybe use one of newer CC2652P, CC2652R/CC2652R1/CC2652R2 or CC2652RB multi-protocol modules from RF-Star or Ebyte?

I understand RF-Star RF-BM-2652P2 and Ebyte E72-2G4M20S1E CC2652P modules with integrated PCB antenna are most popular:

https://www.szrfstar.com/product/237-en.html

https://www.szrfstar.com/product/189-en.html

https://www.szrfstar.com/product/list-196-en.html

https://www.ebyte.com/en/product-view-news.html?id=1002

https://www.ebyte.com/en/product-view-news.html?id=1481

https://www.ebyte.com

Please consider adding a photoelectric/photoresistor light meter sensor for measuring plant light levels (a.k.a. "sunlight measurement) in order to help determine growth conditions to the hardware design and firmware code/images.

Examples of Arduino compatible Digital Light Meter sensors are BH1750

https://www.instructables.com/BH1750-Digital-Light-Sensor/

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-bh1750-ambient-light-sensor

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/jendeegan/light-meter-to-measure-plant-growth-conditions-7a12a9

Hello

I bought two sensors.

Both are under zigbee2mqtt with Home assistant.

Is it possible to increase the frequency of sending data to mqtt? or Home Assistant?

Thanks

Regards

I just got two Plant Watering Sensor EFEKTA (Zigbee) from tindie. Both show about 7 °C to low temperature (e.g. 14°C instead of 21°C). Is this normal or a defect? I have never experienced such a big difference.

And one question: Can the sensor be used outdoor in the garden? I bought it with enclosure, but I do not know, if it is water resistant enough for an outdoor usage.

Thanks!

Request add a temperature and humidity combination sensor to the hardware design and firmware.

Examples of an Arduino compatible temperature and humidity sensors are AM2302, Si7021, DHT11, DHT21, or DHT22

Please consider building and releasing a Z-Stack 3.0.x (Zigbee 3.0) firmware for CC2530 based EFEKTA Zigbee Plant Watering Sensor.

FYI, kirovilya from DIYRUZ community have backported Z-Stack 3.0 (with Zigbee 3.0) support to CC2530 as a proof-of-concept:

• https://github.com/diyruz/diyruz_rt
  • https://github.com/diyruz/diyruz_rt/releases
    • https://zigbee.blakadder.com/DIYRuZ_RT.html

kirovilya tested Z-Stack 3.0.x firmware with DS18B20 on Sonoff BASICZBR3 and also made config to be a Zigbee 3.0 router device:

• https://habr.com/ru/company/iobroker/blog/495926/ (written in Russian so used Google Translate)

For a battery-operated device you would of course want to use a Zigbee end device config and not a Zigbee router config.

More information on Z-Stack 3.0 for CC253x (CC2530 and CC2531) here:

https://www.bestov.io/blog/zigbee-3-part-1-getting-started-with-cc2530

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/05/25/zigbee-firmware-news-ti-z-stack-3-0-zigbee-for-cc2530-ptvo-zigbee-fw-configuration-tool/

https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/1445

Hi Andrew,

There seems to be some inconsistency with temperature measurements. I've built 6 sensors and the range of reported temperature is about 8C under ambient. These are all lying side by side on a table for 3 or 4 days now. Is the temperature measurement done by the E18 module? Or is it dependent on the firmware?

I am using zha instead of z2m, I don't know if that may also be a factor as there is no quirks file for zha yet.

Hi, I bought 3 of these a while back. I had them set up for almost 3 weeks and it was doing fine (the reporting frequencies were not consistent).

The battery ran out so I replaced them and all of a sudden the devices would only publish announce messages to zigbee2MQTT never a payload.

MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"Money Tree Sensor","ieee_address":"0x00124b000611c77e"},"type":"device_announce"}'

MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/log', payload '{"message":"announce","meta":{"friendly_name":"Money Tree Sensor"},"type":"device_announced"}'

I replaced all three and it seems to still have issues. I've tried resetting to factory defaults (hold button for 10 seconds) and then force remove and readding them to my setup.

They sometimes take a while to trigger the interview but they are connected fine and the only t hing they'll publish is the LQI.

Not sure what I can do to fix this.

Also was it ever configured that pushing the button once would send the active payload?

Hi All ,

Is this firmware works with https://github.com/diyruz/flower V2 ??

I have flashed "Soil_Moisture_Sensor_for_CR2032.bin" but always get Soil moisture 0%

Regards

I've ordered the pcb and have built the sensor, however it always reports 100% value even if the sensor is not in soil/water. R3 is 10k R4 is 1M C3 is 0.75pF

I tried different firmwares, but it always reports 100%. Any ideas what might be causing this?

Did you deleted the store on Tindie or they deleted you just for being russian?

I was considering to buy more sensors but it disappeared from tindie...

Thanks!

I apologize for reaching out, but I have been having a large amount of issues flashing my own device's. I also have a unit purchased from tindie which cannot be recognized by my cc debugger as well (Both stay on red). I can see the cc debugger in device manager under "cebel controlled device's" so I am assuming the drivers are installed properly.

Finally, I am following the below diagram to try and wire (without the resistors) where 2.2 to 3, 2.1 to 4, 3.3 to 9, GND to 1, and RST to 7.

I'm a bit at my witt's end as to what's going wrong so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I tried to do my own research before coming here.