🌱 GrowCube Home Assistant Automation with extra UI Views etc.

This package provides complete automation, dashboards, alerts, and manual controls for GrowCube irrigation systems inside Home Assistant.

✅ Features

• Automatic watering per plant (A–D) with pause and moisture check
• Manual watering dashboard with per-plant buttons
• Central watering control (pause, cycle count)
• Moisture history graphs
• Alerts for low moisture and empty water tank
• Fully mobile-optimized dashboard layout
• Blueprint & script-based design for easy reuse

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📁 Included

• blueprints/automation/growcube_auto_water.yaml – Reusable automation blueprint
• scripts/water_growcube_plant_on_demand.yaml – Manual watering script
• dashboards/growcube_dashboard.yaml – Full UI dashboard with controls and graphs
• dashboards/growcube_alerts.yaml – Alerts-only view for mobile/critical status
• README.md – This file

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🔧 Setup Instructions

1. Prerequisites

• Home Assistant (latest version)
• HACS installed with:
  • Mini Graph Card (kalkih/mini-graph-card)
  • Expander Card (custom-cards/expander-card)
  • Elecrow GrowCube integration for Home Assistant (https://github.com/jonnybergdahl/HomeAssistant_Growcube_Integration)

2. Clone or Copy Files

Copy the contents of this repository into your Home Assistant config directory:

/config/
│
├── blueprints/automation/growcube/growcube_auto_water.yaml
├── scripts/water_growcube_plant_on_demand.yaml
├── dashboards/growcube_dashboard.yaml
├── dashboards/growcube_alerts.yaml
└── README.md

3. Import Blueprint

• Go to Settings → Automations → Blueprints → Import Blueprint
• Browse to growcube_auto_water.yaml and load it

4. Load Script

• In Settings → Scripts → Edit in YAML, paste contents of water_growcube_plant_on_demand.yaml

5. Add Dashboards

• Add views to your UI using growcube_dashboard.yaml and growcube_alerts.yaml
• Use Raw Editor or Storage mode and paste each view YAML

6. Create Helpers

In Settings → Helpers, create:

• input_number.watering_pause_minutes (1–10, default 2)
• input_number.watering_max_cycles (1–30, default 20)
• input_number.watering_low_threshold (1–100)
• input_number.watering_high_threshold (1–100)

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🧪 Test It

1. Simulate dry soil (manually lower a moisture sensor reading)
2. Use dashboard to trigger watering
3. Check for notification, moisture rise, graph update

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❤️ Credits

Built with 💧 by the Home Assistant + GrowCube community.

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