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Re:A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor by WaitWaitWha on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:14PM (#33282580)
Write a Home Assistant [0] integration and suddenly you will gain a large set of followers who will also get it into the other closed systems.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io

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Re:A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor by enlightens on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:33PM (#33282710)
In fact it does work with Home Assistant (which is a fantastic platform) :

https://github.com/rbaron/b-parasite#home-assistant

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Re:A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor by dexterdog on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:26PM (#33282667)
It's already supported as a blemonitor device
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Re:A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor by too_big_to_fail on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:28AM (#33287296)
Curious what “other closed systems” means. I’ve used OpenHAB but is home assistant not open source? I haven’t used it yet.
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Re:A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) soil moisture sensor by WaitWaitWha on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:04AM (#33288750)
I meant that if you get it working in Home Assistant (FOSS) then the path to Amazon, Google, Apple (closed systems) is easier.
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