No need to check the calendar, it’s not the first of April, and Tuya Ivy is indeed a smart WiFi-connected flower pot with a display that will report your plant’s thirst for water, need for more light, and even loneliness…
Developed by PlantsIO, the Ivy smart flower pot is powered by an ESP32 wireless microcontroller connected to seven sensors including lighting and moisture sensors, and a display to show various faces. There’s also a USB-C port for power, a microSD card slot for data storage, some buttons, and a touch bar for user interaction.
Tuya Ivy specifications:
- Wireless module – ESP32-WROVER-E
- SoC – ESP32 dual-core LX6 processor running at 240 MHz with 520KiB internal RAM
- Memory – 64 Mbit PSRAM (ESP PSRAM64H)
- Storage – 64Mbit SPI flash (XMC 25QH64CH10)
- Wireless – 2.4 GHz WiFi and Bluetooth 5.x (Only WiFi appears to be use)
- Storage – microSD card
- Display – Tri-color display (black, white, and red)
- Sensors – 7x sensors including light intensity sensor, soil moisture sensor, temperature and humidity sensor
- Misc – Front button, back button, touch bar
- Power Supply
- 5V DC via USB-C port
- 2,000 mAh Lithium battery
- Dimensions – 11.4 x 10 x 9.6 cm
- Temperature Range – 5 to 35°C (designed for indoor use only)
The Tuya Ivy ships with surface pebbles, a USB Type-C cable, an inner pot, a measuring cup, and a user manual. You just need to bring your own plant. Like other Smart Home devices from the company, it relies on the Tuya Smart Life mobile available for Android or iOS for setup and receiving notifications. The company mentions 49 expressions, so it’s not only about lighting and moisture, and five gestures are supported so you can caress the pot or pet your plant like you would with a dog and it will make it very happy 🙂 !
Since it’s a consumer device, Tuya did not provide that many technical details, but X user atc1441 noticed some photos of the Smart Planter’s board on the FCC website, which I used to derive parts of the specifications above.
The Tuya Ivy smart flower pot was introduced last year, so we have some user feedback, and people who purchased it on AliExpress (now about $50) seem to be happy about it.
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All that technology and it doesn’t water the plant for you.
I feel that this is like complaining that a tamagotchi doesn’t care for itself. I think you are missing the point.
There are bunch of devices (multichannel) what can water plants. They have schedule, but I think it is possible to control via Tuya automation.
Well it’s like this Mr Trading Standards inspector.
We can prove that plants get lonely by ……..
Bye bye licence to sell.
It has given me quite the chuckle though.
Why on earth would one design it to make funny faces, that you need to decode against the chart, when you could simply write “POUR SOME WATER!”
Just because people who spend their time seeing emojis, youtube howtos and tiktok videos can’t read anymore and only look at stupid expressions.