For newly added TS0601_soil TuYa Soil sensor: expose soil_moisture instead of humidity

[f0gster]

What happened?

1st of, thanks for adding TS0601_soil TuYa Soil sensor.
I have the device, so I played with an external converter before 1.29. It was awfully similar to your added code, apart of one thing: I'm suggesting changing humidity, that you are currently exposing, to soil_moisture.

All existing soil sensors are exposing soil_moisture (some also humidity on top of that).
TuYa Soil sensor is clearly not sending air humidity - that is easy to check. When I have a sensor in the air (not in soil), for example just near me, it will send 0. Obviously, air humidity is not 0 (all other sensors exposing humidity will show something different).

Hope it makes sense to you.

What did you expect to happen?

Expose soil_moisture

How to reproduce it (minimal and precise)

No response

Zigbee2MQTT version

1.29.0

Adapter firmware version

20221102

Adapter

Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus CC2652P

Debug log

No response

[Koenkk]

@kris969 @cloudbr34k84 what do you think?

[cloudbr34k84]

@kris969 @cloudbr34k84 what do you think?
I'm not fussed, makes sense tbh, but doesn't bother me either way

[kris969]

I have no idea yet on how it's reported on other soil sensors...
Anyway it could make sense.

The exact is description is: Tuya Zigbee Wireless Soil Moisture Meter Temperature Humidity, so base on this everything is possible!

A suggestion should be to expose both soil_moisture and humidity with, of course, the same report value. This way, everyone will be ok, and existing usages will not be impacted.
But, @Koenkk I don't know if it will be tricky for you to do this?

[f0gster]

My point/idea (reason for this report) is that reported data should be consistent.
Imagine you have a few outdoor (air) humidity sensors. You might want to aggregate on humidity. You won't be able to do that easily now with TS0601_soil, because the humidity it reports now has nothing to do with air humidity.
The same about soil moisture - imagine you have a few sensors across your garden (I do have 2 now to experiment with) and would like to get an aggregate state of moisture in the soil. You could not get an average of soil_moisture as TS0601_soil reports it as humidity.
All this is not super crucial, of course. Sure I can get the data I need and do whatever with it - it will just require more manual actions (more code).

Again, air humidity and humidity of soil (soil_moisture) are not the same. You may have wet soil and dry air or another way around... This sensor report only one of these two values, which is the humidity of the soil.

[kris969]

@f0gster : I agree!

[Koenkk]

Done!

Changes will be available in the dev branch in a few hours from now. (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/advanced/more/switch-to-dev-branch.html)

[kris969]

Hi, A rapid check with the dev branch reveale an issue. no soil_moisture was reported! I had to pair my sensors again to have it working fine. This is just a comment for everyone. If you started with previous z2m version, you will need to delete your sensor from z2m then repair it again. Le vendredi 06 janvier 2023 à 00:50 -0800, Koen Kanters a écrit :

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[kris969]

I use this channel to address this comment to soil sensor'users.
This comment is not relative to an z2m issue, but only talk about a sensor issue.
It concern battery drain with such sensor that should last more than one year, in reality after around 3 months batteries are low. I'm not sure the sensor use the hibernate mode and I notice it send report values every minutes that is really to much. I tried to find a new firmware for this device but I have found none.
Did someone has found a fix or a workaround to this sensor issues?

here are information reportes by z2m:
"manufacturerID": 4417
"hardwareVersion": 1
"applicationVersion": 72
"dateCode": ""
"stackVersion": 0
"zclVersion": 3

[Hellingajes]

Hello, I got the new version of this device, they said the battery issue is fixed with this version. After switching z2m to dev branch I was able to pair it succesfully, however, the states are not reporting, only lqi, the rest says: null
What can I do to fix it?

[Hellingajes]

Hello, I got the new version of this device, they said the battery issue is fixed with this version. After switching z2m to dev branch I was able to pair it succesfully, however, the states are not reporting, only lqi, the rest says: null What can I do to fix it?

After a few days, it fixed it self!
Perhaps a reminder to move this device to main branch?