Posts Tagged: Bluetooth

4MiFlora Plant Sensors in Home Assistant

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I’ve been suing the MiFlora Home Assist­ant integ­ra­tion to get data on vari­ous house plants for a while. How­ever along the way I’ve had to over­come vari­ous hurdles includ­ing lim­ited range of bluetooth, bat­tery life issues, and get­ting the bat­tery val­ues to report. I finally seem to have cracked all of these and now have a sys­tem that works reli­ably with lots of plants around the house. I’ve sum­mar­ised what I’ve used below.

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0Ultrabook logo laptop vaio sonyBluetooth drivers for Sony Vaio unknown device

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I was recently asked to look at a Sony Vaio VPCSB which was detect­ing new hard­ware on every Win­dows boot. The machine was oth­er­wise work­ing well. Upon inspec­tion I dis­covered that there were sev­er­al unknown devices which seemed to be related to Bluetooth. I rein­stalled the latest drivers from the Sony web­site but this failed to clear the unknown devices. The search was on.….. Read Full Article