Closed Ulrar closed 1 year ago
Hi @Ulrar,
We've been looking into the BTHomeV2 data gaps issue in #98, so I'll focus on the numbers you're seeing. It's somewhat usual to see some interesting patterns (e.g.: #50, #2, this comment), specially during the first couple of watering cycles. The jumps you're seeing when you move the sensor are likely due to:
Whenever I place/replace a sensor, I try to stick it in a new place to avoid 1 and I make sure to compact the soil around it. If I'm testing something I will put some water around it to help it accommodate itself in the soil too.
Thanks for the answer, that makes sense !
I hadn't actually realized there's a Zigbee firmware now, I do have a lot of Zigbee devices so I just flashed that. Looks good so far, but I'll keep an eye on it.
I took your advice hopefully correctly and compated the soil a bit, put a little bit of water and planted the sensor in moist compacted soil. It immediately started reporting 84%, which at least sounds about right. I'll monitor that over the next few days and see how it goes, thanks for the advice !
@Ulrar, we're tracking the issue with HA marking the sensor as unavailable in #98. It seems like there was a bug with HA - see https://github.com/rbaron/b-parasite/issues/98#issuecomment-1424645478.
I'll close the issue for now, tks!
Hi,
I've had one board in a plant for a few months, and it's been reporting around 90% pretty reliably since, never really going down.
A few weeks ago I tried moving it to another plant, and it reported 90%, but started slowly trending down (with jumps by one or two percent either way on each reading, but trending down overall). It was down to around 85% the other day when I decided to take it out, and update the firmware with the new ble samples format.
I went with BTHome v2, and since it's been very spotty : Because I went from BTHome 1 to 2 the statistics weren't compatible so I dropped all the old data, this is what I got since.
Going unavailable and unpredictable reporting periods aren't great, but my real issue here is the numbers it's reporting. It went from ~85% before I flashed it down to 30, moved it and it went to 0, moved it again and it's now up to around 10, trending up. I'm only moving the board by a few centimeters each time.
Am I doing this wrong, and how do I go about placing these correctly ? I have no idea what the real number is.
I did coat the board, although it might not be done well. Thanks