Anyone used a plant sensor other than Xaiomi?

@Matt_Barnes wrote:

I could not find anyone selling the Xaiomi mi flora sensors at a sensible price so bought some Vegtrug ones. They look similar although bigger and still work off bluetooth and report temp / light / moisture / fertilisation as per the Xaiomi.

I managed to get the MAC address and add it into HA using the miflora platform in my config:

  - platform: miflora
    mac: 'my mac address'
    name: Epipremnum Aureum
    force_update: true
    median: 3

And then added the plant sensor:

      
      

plant:
  Epipremnum_aureum:
    sensors:
      moisture: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_moisture
      battery: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_battery
      temperature: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_temperature
      conductivity: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_conductivity
      brightness: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_light_intensity
    min_moisture: 20

      

I can see the sensors in my config, and the battery is reporting 97%. All other sensors are reporting “null” in the plant sensor:

problem: none
sensors:
  moisture: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_moisture
  battery: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_battery
  temperature: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_temperature
  conductivity: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_conductivity
  brightness: sensor.epipremnum_aureum_light_intensity
unit_of_measurement_dict:
  battery: '%'
moisture: null
battery: 97
temperature: null
conductivity: null
brightness: null
friendly_name: Epipremnum_aureum

and each individual sensor is reporting state unknown:

Has anyone used a non Xaoimi sensor with the Mi plant add on?

My long term plan is to use an ESP32 and MQTT the information into HA but thought I would try this first and now it appears not to work I am unsure that using something like the below will work either?

Thoughts?

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