Pico Grow Lights – Smart Indoor Plant Setup

This setup uses two Pico Grow Lights combined with Home Assistant and a Zigbee smart plug for automated lighting control of decorative indoor plants.

• Video Pico
• Pico Manual

• Compact decorative indoor plant setup
• Automated lighting control
• Low maintenance
• Integration into the lab smart environment

• 2x Pico Grow Lights
  • LED grow light with integrated plant and water container
  • USB powered
• SONOFF Smart Plug (S26R2ZBTPF)
  • Zigbee-enabled smart power plug
  • Connected via Zigbee2MQTT
  • Thanks @coon!

Contains: Succulent / cactus-type plant

Characteristics:

• Vertical growth
• Low water requirements
• Very suitable for grow lights
• Decorative "cyberpunk" appearance

Care:

• Water sparingly
• Avoid standing water
• Keep in a bright environment

Contains: Tradescantia / Callisia repens

Characteristics:

• Fast growing
• Hanging / trailing growth
• Ideal for small containers
• Performs very well under grow lights
• Low maintenance

Care:

• Keep soil slightly moist
• Bright indirect light
• Trim regularly

• SONOFF Zigbee Smart Plug
  • to start the Zigbee integration hit the button on the power plug and hold for 5 sec.
• Zigbee2MQTT
• Home Assistant
• MQTT Integration

Automated control of the grow lights using Home Assistant.

Recommended timing:

Total runtime:

• 12 hours per day

• goto: Settings: Automations & scenes
• create automation and put the yaml in ..

alias: PlantPlug-on
description: PlantPlug-on - leave it like this please
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "08:00:00"
conditions: []
actions:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: febb8d<blubb>
    entity_id: 718e0e<blubb>
    domain: switch
mode: single

alias: PlantPlug-off
description: PlantPlug-off - leave it like this please
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "20:00:00"
conditions: []
actions:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: febb8d<blubb>
    entity_id: 718e0e<blubb>
    domain: switch
mode: single

• Plant dashboard
• Soil moisture sensors
• Automatic watering
• Time-lapse camera (if no one kills me)