flowerpower2mqtt

Publish values from Parrot Flower Power to MQTT

This project just connects Sandeep Mistry's awesome Node module to MQTT - all credits belong to him.

Getting started

You need Node.js. Since this depends on Noble you have to fulfill the prerequisites documented in the Noble readme. On apt based Linux a sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez-utils libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev should be enough.

Then install flowerpower2mqtt: sudo npm install flowerpower2mqtt -g and take a look at the available command line options by typing flowerpower2mqtt --help

MQTT Topics & Payloads

Topic and payload structure follows mqtt-smarthome architecture. Default prefix is "flower".

These topics are published in a configurable interval with retain flag set to true

• <prefix>/status/<device>/soilTemperature (°C)
• <prefix>/status/<device>/soilMoisture (%)
• <prefix>/status/<device>/soilElectricalConductivity (mS/cm)
• <prefix>/status/<device>/airTemperature (°C)
• <prefix>/status/<device>/sunlight
• <prefix>/status/<device>/batteryLevel (%)
• <prefix>/status/<device>/led

These topics are subscribed. You should publish to them with retain flag set to false

• <prefix>/set/<device>/led - If you publish a message to this topic the LED will start fading up and down for given number of seconds. Accepts plain and JSON payload.

Todo

• connection handling - keep connection alive for configurable timeout
• enable/disable live mode
• fw 1.1 support - calibrated values

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Sebastian Raff [e-mail] (https://github.com/hobbyquaker)

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