MIYO conquers Google Home & now also runs with LOXONE

Finally, it exists – the possibility of having just one Sensor in a garden area. No automatic irrigation, just control. Thanks to the latest integrations, MIYO can now also be controlled via Loxone and Google Home. This makes gardening easier for millions of users and, thanks to sensible resource utilization, is another step towards climate protection.

New Smart Garden function

The intelligent smart garden innovation MIYO provides green spaces fully automatically, environmentally friendly, and according to need. To maintain full control over soil moisture even in raised beds and potted plants, there is now a new feature that allows only sensors to be connected with the MIYO app and to determine the corresponding data. This way, you always know exactly when the soil is dry. Thus, manual watering is possible without unnecessarily consuming the valuable resource of water.

From now on, MIYO offers four combination options and functions. The Cube always serves as the central interface, the "brain" of the MIYO garden irrigation system:

1. A Sensor "measures data such as soil moisture, temperature, and brightness and forwards it to the Valve for fully automatic irrigation."
2. A Sensormeasures the relevant data and several valves control the needs-based irrigation of several water pipes and garden areas.
3. Only a Valve (without Sensor) can be controlled and operated remotely with the MIYO app.
4. Only an energy self-sufficient Sensortransmits its measurement data to the MIYO app. The respective plants and areas are then watered manually depending on requirements and the status of the soil moisture.

The MIYO Plugin for LOXONE

In our home and garden, an average of 150 devices for building technology and entertainment electronics are controlled nowadays. However, none of the devices knows exactly what the other is doing or what the resident wants at the moment.

With Loxone Smart Home , however, everything is controlled by a central core, a small miniserver. The system behind Loxone handles most tasks related to security, comfort and energy efficiency by itself and has done so millions of times over the years. A MIYO fan and tech-savvy customer has programmed a plugin for easy operation and integration with Loxone and made it available as open source for all MIYO owners. Detailed installation instructions are also available online here. The plugin, programmed by our customer and extensively documented, sets up a websocket interface to the MIYO cube and sends the messages received via it to the Loxone miniserver in a format that is easy for Loxone to process. These messages for the MIYO irrigation system, which arrive at the miniserver via UDP (minimal, connectionless network protocols), are received by the plugin and in turn passed on to the cube via websocket.

This means that not only can the data from the MIYO system (such as temperature or soil moisture, or the status of the valves) be visualized or further processed in Loxone, but the irrigation valves can also be controlled using your own logic within Loxone.

MIYO conquers Google Home

It is primarily due to the explicit wishes of our customers that MIYO can now be turned on and off via the voice control assistant Google Home. Once activated by saying the words "Ok Google" or "Hey Google", you can transmit a corresponding command to the assistant with your voice. We want to make life a little easier for our customers and their smart homes even more efficient.

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