[Feature] soil_moisture

[JulianBX]

Problem description

I own a DIYRuZ_Flower - Device.
It exposes "soil_moisture" and this I not yet supported by HomeKit.
Ist there any chance to expose it as "humidity"?

Suggested solution

Maybe add the capability to "convert" own exposed characteristic to another?

Alternative solutions

No response

Additional context / information

I tried a lot of stuff already but the documentation of the plugin configuration is not too much ;)

Thank you very much!

[itavero]

Duplicate of #423 / #309

[itavero]

Maybe add the capability to "convert" own exposed characteristic to another?

For that you can already use https://github.com/arachnetech/homebridge-mqttthing

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[riscpower]

Hi,
i have the same problem with my zigbee device / it is a QT-07S. The payload is complete (temperature / soil_mositure / battery).
It is not recognized as sensor / device in homebridge. Only temperature and battery state.

I tried to implement it in homebridge with mqttthing:
{
"type": "humiditySensor",
"name": "ZBSOIL1_MQTT",
"url": "mqtt://192.168.xxx.xxx:1883",
"topics": {
"getCurrentHumidity": {
"topic": "zigbee2mqtt/ZBSOIL01",
"apply": "return (parseInt(JSON.parse(message).soil_moisture);"
}
},
"accessory": "mqttthing",
"validate": false
},

Could anybody advise me please / i had no success. Or it will be implemented in z2m / this would be nice.

thanks

[dcolin]

Hi @riscpower, i have exactly the same problem, have you found a solution?

[riscpower]

Hi Dcolin please look at this:

https://forum.smartapfel.de/forum/thread/11763-ts0601-soil-sensor-in-mqttthing-einbinden-homebridge/?postID=144713#post144713

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[wolterkam]

Is there any chance for the support for this property to be added? Relying on MqttThing for something which technically should be this simple seems like an overkill.

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