Plant Sitter with Bluetooth

The Parrot Plant Sensor is delivered in a pretty gift suitable packaging. After removing the decorative flowerpot a green plastic stick remains in the the supplied battery is inserted. Then it goes on so in the flowerpot.

After downloading the app "Flowerpower" it can then start with the monitoring of the plant. I have a Efeutute selected, which is placed next to the patio windows on a cabinet. There, she has plenty of room to shut vines, but is easily overlooked times during casting. In addition to the water supply of the sensor also checks whether the plant gets enough light, and fertilizer and the ambient temperature is right.

The plant database:
With more than 6000 entries + Photos plant database is huge, but largely consists of outside-plant, for whatever reason. With palm trees 49 results were shown to me, but what about 40 Holly (Ilex, garden shrub) were. Honestly, no one gets the idea, so to put a part in garden shrubs, although the plant sensor is waterproof and also to be used outdoors. My test candidates Efeutute I initially did not found it, as well as no elephant. Unfortunately, you have to search the database namely, the Latin name that you are allowed to So, at first awkward googling beforehand. The plant database is so pretty half-baked and improvement ripe for this purpose.

Flowerpower in monitoring use:
I usually get 1-2 messages per day from my plant. First, it is to be cast, which I like to do. The next day, the sensor reports the stick that she has too little light. Well dear plant, because good is also not change much, this winter is unfortunately very dark, I would have liked more light. After 2-3 days I get the message that it has too much fertilizer. That surprises me but then, because it was fertilized long ago, however. After all, the drive reports on time, when the plant has to be cast, which I really like. It shows even in how many days pending the next casting.

The device works and falls in most flowerpots on barely. Unfortunately, it can only be used for a plant and there is no extension set, so it's a pretty expensive pleasure. The synchronization from the beginning was a bit hakelig and appears after about 6 months no longer function properly now. My overall verdict is very mixed, can blindly trust you this plant sensor not, so I have the vote now reduced to 2 stars.