Parrot Flower Power for Android
Cloud service has not worked for Android 5 and below since early April 2017. Now unable to do firmware updates to allow these devices to work with Android 7. Received a staggering response from Parrot: that they no longer support these devices and for data retrieval from clouds, customers are recommended to now build custom APIs using tools provided from their developer site. Customer support truly atrocious.
Parrot seems to have given up on trying anything to resolve issues for its clients who purchased the flower power sensor. My experience using the devices keeps going downhill, sadly the sensors never delivered on the promises of the companies website to be accurate and reliable. If you have multiple of these devices active, say 12+ synchronization and updates are a hassle. I own 20+ of these devices, and it's been disappointing to work with customer service to find any resolution..
After firmware update, all flower powers (6 total) say no soil detected. All other reading work
Used with 2 (expensive) sensors. One of which failed within a year. The other now rarely connects even within 1 m range & then often results in a cloud processing error. My nephew purchased 3 of these last year, all of which have now ceased to function. Extremely poor product from Parrot that feels rushed to market with little regard for the customer once the sale is made.
Update: Dead product - Can't install on my tablet anymore... New: Sync not working well for log data. Old: Works well as of 12/29/2014 - Full featured and at parity with apple version as far as I can tell. Very useful long term graphing. Highly recommended for smart gardens.
tis crap says Expansion file not found. Wtf is this? How do i fix that? It is so not user friendly
It will be much better if fertiliser reading available in live mode also to know what plant needs exactly needs at the time of installing the plant sensor,sometimes there is problem with battery acid drain because of outdoor usage, if possible it is also better to change the alkaline AAA battery to cr2032 battery to prevent acid drain problem, otherwise the flower Power & the app are excellent
Après une série d'ennuis, cette version fonctionne enfin! Il a fallu deux ans mais ils l'ont fait!
Couldn't connect to my Flower Power but later realized it had something to do with my tablet rather than the app itself: everything working fine on my Nexus 5
Why does it have to connect to the server each time? Why can't the app download the information for the plants I have and keep it downloaded? Please improve
it's good to monitor plants but it should have a schedule to turn on at specified times to sync
What happened to the website for this application?!
It doesn't connect any more. :((
Home gardener must have tool.
App not working anymore.
Just bought it and cant use it... Cant load extension file...
All flower powers day 'no soil detected' under moisture.
No soil detected
Very good. I need more.
Great app!!
This app is MUCH improved with the latest version. However, it still lacks the main functionality that I suspect was the reason most people bought the device in the first place: a notification when it's time to water your plants! Why it doesn't notify someone is a mystery. When you open the app, it tells you the plant needs water, but if you don't open the app, you'll never know.
Great visualizations, simple interface. The flower power hardware can be a bit slow, but that's no fault of the app.
Now says "No soil detected" and I can't do anything to fix it.
App doesn't alert me when watering etc is required. I have Bluetooth turned on the whole time with notifications on.
Cannot change the plant anymore!
App doesn't send notifications and the features are unreliable
it's great but it doesn't notify the user...
Really helpful in keeping the plants healthy
Now syncs automatically with your sensor, no need to open the app for it to sync. BUT, it doesn't send any notifications to your phone to tell you to water it! You still have to open the app to see if you need to do something. Ridiculous! It's like they ran a marathon and stopped 10 feet before the finish line. Without notifications, the whole system is kind of useless.
New review: the improved app is much better. I have been recommending to friends and family.
Stuffed the web interface. Wrecked the api. App is crap. Management are morons
This device used to tell me when to water and fertilize my plant. Now it won't even do that. You are going backwards instead of forward. Why bother with the device at all. Had I known it wasn't capable of doing this I would have never wasted my hard earned money on it.
Syncing is not very reliable anymore.
The idea behind this is excellent however there are a lot of sync issues and usability could improve as well.
My plant is my new tamagochi!
Nicer and it works better. Bluetooth sync is working perfectly. Well done.
Downloading the data would be great
It's a great app and a great device.
Does not pick up my device. No button to search for devices so you dont even know if its ever looking for devices. You pay so much for the device only to find out the app is useless. Will never buy a parrot device again
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There is no way to trigger a Bluetooth search from the pot. I do not see any signal from the pot, so I am unable to use it. Doesn't seem to be any help or support available. As of now, it's been an utter waste of money.