Monthly Archives: January 2019

Monitoring Backyard Soil with Xiaomi Mi Flora Plant Monitor, InfluxDB and Grafana

Xiaomi Mi Flora plant monitor is a cool high tech device for measuring plant’s soil moisture, and fertility, as well as light and temperature. The data is accessible via Bluetooth using the mobile app. The device is waterproof, the battery is said to last at least a year, and it costs about $17 on Amazon or Ebay.

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