Does anyone have experience with the "Parrot" Flower Power Sensor? Is it possible to export the raw data of soil moisture within the app for iOS (without graphs, just the data)?
Can you adjust time intervals of measuring time itself?
Hi. I used a couple of Parrot sensors for about a year. Because it samples a small volume of soil and uses a generic soil calibration, the data aren't high quality. Other capacitance probes, costing just a bit more, are much better. The Decagon HS10 is good. There is a cheap version of this type of sensor sold as the Vegetronics. As you know, loggers are cheap now. An Arduino-based logger costs $100 if you make a few, and an electrical engineer will put a $10 BlueTooth or BLE (Apple) module from eBay into it for an extra $50 or so. My group put them in soil water loggers and raingauges.
The days of expensive sensors and even more expensive, wired loggers have gone in my opinion. Also, 3G phones are less than US$40 now, so if you have 3G, just upload the data to a web host. 10 seconds or a 7 day average - too easy!
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