April soil moisture sensor module

Custom april soil moisture sensor module for esphome

This module allow to connect april soil moisture sensor with esphome.

How to add the module?

1. Create an empty project with esphome named april_soil
2. Copy april-soil.yaml and april_soil_sensor.h to your project
3. Download docker esphome beta version which supports ESP32 S2

docker pull esphome/esphome:beta

4. See section Secrets to add secrets.yaml
5. Compile

docker run --rm -v "${PWD}":/config --device=/dev/ttyUSB0 -it esphome/esphome:beta run april-soil.yaml

Secrets

april-soil.yaml contains some directives such as !secret mqtt_password, which instructs it to read secrets from a secrets.yaml file.

This file is usually not commited to version control, so you'll need to populate your own. Here's an example:

# Example secrets.yaml
wifi_ssid: WIFI_NETWORK_NAME
wifi_password: WIFI_PASSWORD
mqtt_broker: MQTT_BROKER
mqtt_password: MQTT_PASSWORD
ota_password: OTA_PASSWORD