b-parasite¶
b-parasite is an open source soil moisture and ambient temperature/humidity/light sensor.
The b_parasite sensor platform tracks b-parasite’s Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement packets. These packets contain soil moisture, air temperature/humidity and battery voltage data. Some b-parasite versions have light sensors, in which case the ambient illuminance is also present in the BLE advertisement data.
# Example configuration.
# Required.
esp32_ble_tracker:
sensor:
- platform: b_parasite
mac_address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
humidity:
name: 'b-parasite Air Humidity'
temperature:
name: 'b-parasite Air Temperature'
moisture:
name: 'b-parasite Soil Moisture'
battery_voltage:
name: 'b-parasite Battery Voltage'
illuminance:
name: 'b-parasite Illuminance'
Configuration variables¶
mac_address (Required): The MAC address of the device.
temperature (Optional): Air temperature in Celsius.
All options from Sensor.
humidity (Optional): Relative air humidity in %.
All options from Sensor.
moisture (Optional): Soil moisture in %.
All options from Sensor.
battery_voltage (Optional): Battery voltage in volts.
All options from Sensor.
illuminance (Optional): Illuminance in lux.
All options from Sensor.