Please read this. This is a great start! But please create a hub! You can create a hub that connects to the wifi and then the devices can connect to the hub and if the hub is too far you can create repeaters that will extend the signal whether that's Bluetooth or wifi. It depends on which is better for signal distance and the environment around it. I would love to be apart of this possible future ecosystem of products. I think if you keep this up you can have a whole gardening website with these products possibly being a subscription to all the great information you provide us. I hope you guys have great success
I have had my sensors for a few weeks now and I am obsessed. Just ordered 4 more! I am so happy with this product and the app! Congratulations from Zone 7B in the US.
I work for a local Highschool for their gardening program. This would be a great tool to help the students understand some key concepts in growing plants.
LOL. I totally got stuck between "500" and "I like to look good" and had to go back to watch again. The implications of taking care of 500 plants was so mind boggling. I struggle just keeping the plant from my daughter's memorial service alive. 😂 (I do have a raised bed this year for some veggies for which I've been following you.) That being said, I can see where this instrument can be a game changer if my old brain can manage to absorb all the information. As to future usage outside, why would it have to be a WiFi connection? It would seem that a cellular connection would be enough, but again, that's my brain not at work. 😊 Congratulations on a fine product!!
Weather proofing, and the ability to leave it in the soil, and connection to smart hubs for automation and monitoring, are a key use cases. I am looking for indoor and outdoor sensors. Z-Wave or Zigbee probably a better choice than wifi, or bluetooth. The device needs to be able to sleep, and wake up under smart home control. 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 minute wake cycles is probably a good cycle range. Watering data should not change frequently, especially in larger plants. I can see shorter timeframes for smaller plants. It needs the ability to report battery voltage, so low voltage sensing is possible. Thus sensor failure due to drained battery issues is minimized. I suspect you will need to change to capacitance water sensing for long term durability. Capacitance sensing is water sealable. Resistive sensing has issues with long term durability in a continuous contact situation. As for wifi outdoors, having an access point in the window, probably would work for most situations, BUT wifi is a bit of battery hog. Z-Wave likely going to provide better battery life. However, I am not aware of zwave, or zigbee in cellphones, so a hub of some sort would be required. Running the sensors to a plugged in bluetooth hub, then wifi the hub to the cellphone would reduce battery drain on the cellphone. Sampling plant moisture instead of sensors in each plant would be more cost effective. I have a LOT of indoor plants, and 12 different outdoor gardens ! Thoughts, as I think about the where I want to go with a moisture sensing system. With my magnitude of plantings, permanent inplace sensing is important !
Such an incredible breakdown and review, Ashley! As someone who ends up unintentionally killing every plant I buy, I feel like this device was made for me. Can't wait to grab a few of these monitors!! Also really looking forward to your next video on understanding the data :)
When you put a reminder on when to water your plant?does it keep reminding you every time when it actually is time to water your plants if this makes sense ? say when the percentage is down to 30 or under 30% will it update and remind you again when the next time to water your plants? I hope this makes sense.
This sounds so amazing… I’ve been looking forward to it since you 1st brought it up. One of these days I’ll bite the bullet and pay for the shipping from Canada to the US.
Congrats Ashley 👏 👏 👏 and team! That looks good, sounds very useful and a cool tool. Website looks great too, and great job on the presentation video too. You look very Pleased with yourself and you should! Much success to you, well deserved & I'll pass this along to my sister (has a house full)
I need an outdoor version of this to help me with my automated watering and fertilizing system. It would be so cool if this could sense what nutrients are needed in the soil and I could then program my system to deliver the nutrients as needed or even program my system to automatically mix according to the information that the sensor is relaying.
We are looking at that because it’s so important! But it’s semi complicated with the equipment not so much the math. But! We will figure it out I’m confident.
So, I have a question that my husband and I have been pondering... we have tomato plants that are about 5 ft tall, and a cucumber plant, less than 2 ft tall, in a parallel but seperate raised bed. It seemed to want to climb instead of crawl so we gave it a stake, but it keeps reaching out and attaching to the tomato plants even though there is more pole it could climb. Any idea why this is? It's interesting!
Ashley - Sensor question from someone who has not bought one yet - is there a way, in the app, for me to add notes to the plant history? Like 11/1/23 repotted chunky mix 2. Or 11/15/23 moved from kitchen window to bedroom dresser + grow light. Would also love to add photos if I'm shooting for the moon:) And if that were all possible, would that be an app thing or a smart house integration thing? For comparison, I used a blood glucose sensor for my diabetic dog and I don't recall if the app allowed notes to be added, but they had a website that was linked to the app and on the website we always added notes to the timeline and could even print various reports and graphic summaries of data. Helped us learn how extended exercise sessions and travel affected his diabetic responses. I also keep aquariums and do not use an app but have a notebook and excel record for each tank noting key parameters, water changes, and fish and plant notes. Currently have photos kept separately in phone with no easy way to link photos, excel and notebook.
I always get scared to over water or underwater. I had them on risers. Bad choice. Because the soil created canals. And poured out of the bottom. Now i bottom water as well as top.
Not weather proof? So i have to remove them everyday when i water? Hopefully there will be a new generation soon that can handle a garden and weather changes.
Oh no. Sorry you can’t leave them in for watering. You just don’t want to leave them outside in the elements. High heat, hail that’s sort of thing. It also needs a wifi connection so it’s best left inside if you don’t want to risk damaging anything.
It should be a better video on how to connect this you talking to enough but how do you connect it and make it work into your plant so you can look at it and see how the water and how to do it or whatever it do it’s not doing nothingand I just bought it
🎉🎉 If you want to grab one of these here is the link:
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Plants 🤝 Technology. The possibilities are endless!
Love science and nature, and the science of nature, which pretty much is science anyway! This tool is very cool! 😎
Totally!
Congrats on your product Ashley!
Thank you! Cheers!
Please read this. This is a great start! But please create a hub! You can create a hub that connects to the wifi and then the devices can connect to the hub and if the hub is too far you can create repeaters that will extend the signal whether that's Bluetooth or wifi. It depends on which is better for signal distance and the environment around it. I would love to be apart of this possible future ecosystem of products. I think if you keep this up you can have a whole gardening website with these products possibly being a subscription to all the great information you provide us. I hope you guys have great success
I have had my sensors for a few weeks now and I am obsessed. Just ordered 4 more! I am so happy with this product and the app! Congratulations from Zone 7B in the US.
Glad you like them!
U should make some videos on how to use it or tutorials sensing ur personal garden!
Yes! I am totally going to.
Wow impressive!! I needed this! Congratulations! Nate will be happy
Haha that reminds me I need to remind him it’s ready 😂
I work for a local Highschool for their gardening program. This would be a great tool to help the students understand some key concepts in growing plants.
LOL. I totally got stuck between "500" and "I like to look good" and had to go back to watch again. The implications of taking care of 500 plants was so mind boggling. I struggle just keeping the plant from my daughter's memorial service alive. 😂 (I do have a raised bed this year for some veggies for which I've been following you.) That being said, I can see where this instrument can be a game changer if my old brain can manage to absorb all the information.
As to future usage outside, why would it have to be a WiFi connection? It would seem that a cellular connection would be enough, but again, that's my brain not at work. 😊
Congratulations on a fine product!!
The app itself is very digestible when it comes to the data and info.
I hope that weather proofing is a future goal. Especially with home automation, it would be game changing to be able to keep track of your gardens.
Yea it’s in the game plan. It’s the wifi factor that’s mostly holding back the great outdoors side of things.
Agree!
@GardeningInCanada have you guys considered z-wave? Lower power, lower frequency, generally longer range.
Weather proofing, and the ability to leave it in the soil, and connection to smart hubs for automation and monitoring, are a key use cases. I am looking for indoor and outdoor sensors. Z-Wave or Zigbee probably a better choice than wifi, or bluetooth. The device needs to be able to sleep, and wake up under smart home control. 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 minute wake cycles is probably a good cycle range. Watering data should not change frequently, especially in larger plants. I can see shorter timeframes for smaller plants. It needs the ability to report battery voltage, so low voltage sensing is possible. Thus sensor failure due to drained battery issues is minimized. I suspect you will need to change to capacitance water sensing for long term durability. Capacitance sensing is water sealable. Resistive sensing has issues with long term durability in a continuous contact situation. As for wifi outdoors, having an access point in the window, probably would work for most situations, BUT wifi is a bit of battery hog. Z-Wave likely going to provide better battery life. However, I am not aware of zwave, or zigbee in cellphones, so a hub of some sort would be required. Running the sensors to a plugged in bluetooth hub, then wifi the hub to the cellphone would reduce battery drain on the cellphone. Sampling plant moisture instead of sensors in each plant would be more cost effective. I have a LOT of indoor plants, and 12 different outdoor gardens ! Thoughts, as I think about the where I want to go with a moisture sensing system. With my magnitude of plantings, permanent inplace sensing is important !
Well done! 🎉
Thank you! 😃
Such an incredible breakdown and review, Ashley! As someone who ends up unintentionally killing every plant I buy, I feel like this device was made for me. Can't wait to grab a few of these monitors!! Also really looking forward to your next video on understanding the data :)
Hahaha! Yes that is fair.
Congratulations! Just got my 4 pack
Nice! Hope you enjoy them
When you put a reminder on when to water your plant?does it keep reminding you every time when it actually is time to water your plants if this makes sense ? say when the percentage is down to 30 or under 30% will it update and remind you again when the next time to water your plants? I hope this makes sense.
This sounds so amazing… I’ve been looking forward to it since you 1st brought it up. One of these days I’ll bite the bullet and pay for the shipping from Canada to the US.
Oh yea! Shipping is the worst
Congrats Ashley 👏 👏 👏 and team! That looks good, sounds very useful and a cool tool. Website looks great too, and great job on the presentation video too. You look very Pleased with yourself and you should! Much success to you, well deserved & I'll pass this along to my sister (has a house full)
Thank you!
Sentek deliver world wide
🙌🙌I'm so excited to get mine
Yay! Let me know how you like it’s
Really cool! Just discovering you have a hand in this design and production.
Awesome, thank you!
Very cool. I seen produces like this that tell you the soil PH also. Is this something that can be adit in the future?
We are looking into it! For me it’s essentially to know that
@@GardeningInCanada Me to.
I need an outdoor version of this to help me with my automated watering and fertilizing system. It would be so cool if this could sense what nutrients are needed in the soil and I could then program my system to deliver the nutrients as needed or even program my system to automatically mix according to the information that the sensor is relaying.
Automated watering is very much a future idea for the team!
Is it possible to get an on demand PH along with micro and macro nutrient monitor?
We are looking at that because it’s so important! But it’s semi complicated with the equipment not so much the math. But! We will figure it out I’m confident.
Cool. Thanks!
Anytime!
OMG CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉
I’ll be getting my 4 pack for sure!
Hopefully in time before my super expensive order arrives from Asia. 🙏🏾🙂
I don’t have a great read on my climatizing boxes for imports, so this would be especially useful!
Does your sensor register aroid soil mixes that are light and fluffy?
Yes!
Is it supposed to be in US dollars on the site even when ordering in Canada?
Yea! Sorry about that it’s just how the website makes us work it
I would love to buy this device!!! Where can we buy it? Do they deliver to USA ?
it's in the description
Yes! We definitely do.
So, I have a question that my husband and I have been pondering... we have tomato plants that are about 5 ft tall, and a cucumber plant, less than 2 ft tall, in a parallel but seperate raised bed. It seemed to want to climb instead of crawl so we gave it a stake, but it keeps reaching out and attaching to the tomato plants even though there is more pole it could climb. Any idea why this is? It's interesting!
Can I try 12 out?
What plant is behind you? Long leaves, beautiful
The taller one? Fiddle leaf fig
No, the one with the strap leaves
Well, can you please upload them because I don’t know how to work this thing
duuuuuude i'm getting a 4 pack...and wish i could clone them, but hey it's a start
Hahah yes that’s accurate. Good luck figuring out which plants are worthy.
Ashley - Sensor question from someone who has not bought one yet - is there a way, in the app, for me to add notes to the plant history? Like 11/1/23 repotted chunky mix 2. Or 11/15/23 moved from kitchen window to bedroom dresser + grow light. Would also love to add photos if I'm shooting for the moon:) And if that were all possible, would that be an app thing or a smart house integration thing? For comparison, I used a blood glucose sensor for my diabetic dog and I don't recall if the app allowed notes to be added, but they had a website that was linked to the app and on the website we always added notes to the timeline and could even print various reports and graphic summaries of data. Helped us learn how extended exercise sessions and travel affected his diabetic responses. I also keep aquariums and do not use an app but have a notebook and excel record for each tank noting key parameters, water changes, and fish and plant notes. Currently have photos kept separately in phone with no easy way to link photos, excel and notebook.
Yup! There is a journal section under each plant. You just scroll over.
Awesome 🎉
Thanks 🤗
I can’t get mines to work once I get it in the pot and it comes on then it don’t do nothing. What do I do next?
Did you send an email in? One of the guys will be able to help you out.
I always get scared to over water or underwater. I had them on risers. Bad choice. Because the soil created canals.
And poured out of the bottom. Now i bottom water as well as top.
Water can be difficult to understand
Your coupon code does not work??
Not weather proof? So i have to remove them everyday when i water? Hopefully there will be a new generation soon that can handle a garden and weather changes.
Oh no. Sorry you can’t leave them in for watering. You just don’t want to leave them outside in the elements. High heat, hail that’s sort of thing. It also needs a wifi connection so it’s best left inside if you don’t want to risk damaging anything.
Was that a typo in your reply? It says can't but the context makes me think you meant to say can.
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Can't wait to get some sensors for my many house plants. So excited!
Yay! I have four and it’s hard to choose which plants get the privilege
I grow cannabis
We had a few cannabis uses from the testing round
How much is it
One sensor is $40 CDN. (Not including the discount) and then there are two and four packs.
It should be a better video on how to connect this you talking to enough but how do you connect it and make it work into your plant so you can look at it and see how the water and how to do it or whatever it do it’s not doing nothingand I just bought it
Please help me connect
Troublesome it’s not a joy to use. Will not stay connected to Wi-Fi. More work than it’s worth. It’s a no for me.
Not much is it
Cost wise? It’s pretty inexpensive. The idea is to have more than one to get really good results.