EasyPlant Custom Component for homeassistant

What This Is:

This is a custom component to allow for an easier integration and setup of plant monitoring in Homeassistant. It is originally based on the built-in Plant Monitor component but has been heavily modified to add features and simplify setup.

What It Does:

This custom component basically does the same job as the built-in plant component, but provides the following additional features:

• Easier setup (convention over configuration - see below)
• Automatic discovery of new sensors for plants
• Pull information from a plant database (e.g. MiFlora DB)
• Redundant sensor support - use multiple sensors for a single reading, so you can for example setup multiple ESPHome nodes with identical MiFlora configs and move plants within the house without changing Home Assistant config
• Add support for more sensors on a plant (environment humidity, more to come)

Installation

Install via HACS.

In order to find EasyPlant, you first need to add the repository:

1. Open HACS
2. Go to Settings
3. Enter https://github.com/caphm/easyplantin ADD CUSTOM REPOSITORY. Select type integration.

Configuration

Quick Start

Best thing to get started is with a full example. I have the following in my configuration.yaml:

easyplant:
  database: /config/PlantDB_5335_U0.csv
  images: /local/flower-images
  disable_remote_images: true
  discovery_prefix: plant
  plants:
    curcuma:
      pid: curcuma 'alismatifolia'
      min_light_lux: 0
      sensors:
        env_humid: sensor.master_bedroom_humidity
    howea:
      pid: howea forsteriana
      min_light_lux: 0
      sensors:
        env_humid: sensor.living_room_humidity
    monstera:
      pid: monstera deliciosa
      min_light_lux: 0
      sensors:
        env_humid: sensor.master_bedroom_humidity
    zantedeschia:
      pid: zantedeschia aethiopica (l.)spreng.
      min_light_lux: 0
      sensors:
        env_humid: sensor.living_room_humidity

My plant database is in my Home Assistant config folder and the flower images in a subfolder flower-images under my www folder. The setup above

• creates 4 plants
• pulls the info for them from the database file
• uses locally hosted images
• overrides the minimum value for light intensity / brightness to 0 (because I don't want problems being reported when it's too dark
• assigns a static sensor for environment humidity to each plant, because I only have one humidty sensor per room and not per plant

Basic configuration for autodiscovery

easyplant:
  discovery_prefix: plant
  plants:
    monstera_deliciosa:

If you have the following sensors available in Home Assistant

• sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_moist_1
• sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_moist_2
• sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_ec_1
• sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_ec_2 the component will create a plant called Monstera Deliciosa and monitor its soil moisture and soil conductivity from two redundant sources each. The soure sensors for each reading can come for example from two separate ESPHome nodes using the MiFlora sensor. This way, once on of the nodes is out of bluetooth range, the component will ignore the unavailable status of that sensor and use the reading from the other one. If you then later make another sensor sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_temp available in Home Assistant, this will automatically be added to your Monstera Deliciosa plant and the component wll monitor its temperature. But since it is not setup redundantly (only one sensor for the temperature reading), it might show unavailable when out of range.

YAML configuration

The same setup as above (with some extensions) can be statically configured in configuration.yaml like this:

easyplant:
  discovery_prefix: plant
  plants:
    monstera_deliciosa:
      min_soil_moist: 20
      max_soil_moist: 60
      sensors:
        temp: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_temp
        soil_moist: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_moist_1
        soil_ec: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_ec_1
        env_humid: sensor.living_room_humidity

Because the sensor names adhere to the naming pattern and the proper discovery prefix is set, additional sensors will dynamicaly be discovered and added to the plant. You can also specify sensor names that do not conform the naming pattern. This is useful for example in the case of environment humidity (env_humid), where you usually don't have a dedicated humidity sensor for each plant, but rather one for an entire room. The example above also adds a minimum and maximum value for soil moisture to be monitored.

Using a plant database

The following configuration is the same as above, but will pull data like minimum and maximum values for soil moisture, temperature etc. and much more data from a plant database. You just need to specifiy where your database is located using database and provide the attribute pid to the plant. The pid must be the value from the first column in your database.

easyplant:
  database: /config/PlantDB_5335_U0.csv
  images: /local/flower-images
  disable_remote_images: true
  discovery_prefix: plant
  plants:
    monstera_deliciosa:
      pid: monstera deliciosa
      min_temp: 0
      sensors:
        temp: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_temp
        soil_moist: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_moist_1
        soil_ec: sensor.plant_monstera_deliciosa_soil_ec_1
        env_humid: sensor.living_room_humidity

You can override the minimum or maximum values from the database by specifying them yourself, as done above with min_temp: 0. In this example, we have also set up the use of local images. If you have a local collection of all the plant images (named by their pid with extension jpg), you can point the component to this directory using images and set disable_remote_images to true to make it images served from you local machine. If you omit these two options, the component will use images pulled from the remote location given in the plant database.

Configuration Options

Global configuration options

Option	Required?	Default	Description
database	optional		Path to your plant database file
images	optional		Path to your local plant images folder (under wwwstarting with /local/
disable_remote_images	optional	False	Do not use plant images from remote locations (as given in plant database)
discovery_prefix	optional		Prefix to use for autodiscovery of sensors. If not sepcified, autodiscovery won't work.
plants	required		Dictionary of the plants to be setup. See plant configuration options.

Plant configuration options

Option	Required?	Default	Description
pid	optional		pid to associate with data from the plant database
discovery_prefix	optional		Override the global discovery prefix only for this plant
min_battery	optional	20	Minimum battery level reading
max_light_mmol	optional		Maximum light energy in MMOL reading (overrides database info if given)
min_light_mmol	optional		Minimum light energy in MMOL reading (overrides database info if given)
max_light_lux	optional		Maximum light intensity / brightness reading (overrides database info if given)
min_light_lux	optional		Minimum light intensity / brightness reading (overrides database info if given)
max_temp	optional		Maximum temperature reading (overrides database info if given)
min_temp	optional		Minimum temperature reading (overrides database info if given)
max_env_humid	optional		Maximum environment humidity reading (overrides database info if given)
min_env_humid	optional		Minimum environment humidity reading (overrides database info if given)
max_soil_moist	optional		Maximum soil moisture reading (overrides database info if given)
min_soil_moist	optional		Minimum soil moisture reading (overrides database info if given)
max_soil_ec	optional		Maximum soil conductivity reading (overrides database info if given)
min_soil_ec	optional		Minimum soil conductivity reading (overrides database info if given)
check_days	optional	3	Number of days in the past to consider for restoring max brightness value after reboot
sensors	optional		Statically defined sensors for the readings of this plant. See sensor configuration options.

Sensor configuration options

Option	Required?	Default	Description
battery	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for battery level reading
light_lux	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for light intensity / brightness reading
temp	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for temperature reading
env_humid	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for environment humidity reading
soil_moist	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for soil moisture reading
soil_ec	optional		Entity ID o the sensor to use for soil conductivity reading