{"id":6212,"date":"2024-09-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/home-assistant-inspiration-smart-name-tags-for-plants\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:25:05","slug":"home-assistant-inspiration-smart-name-tags-for-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/en\/home-assistant-inspiration-smart-name-tags-for-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Assistant inspiration: Smart name tags for plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"netgu-2480234911\" class=\"netgu-before-content netgu-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6258556257245998\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6258556257245998\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3494115342\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/category\/home-assistant\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"Home Assistant\">Home Assistant<\/a><\/strong> is an open source platform that makes it possible to seamlessly integrate and automate a wide range of smart home devices. With a growing and creative community, users are constantly finding new, innovative applications to make their home even smarter. One particularly original example of this is <strong>smart name tags for plants<\/strong>, as discussed in a Reddit post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homeassistant\/comments\/1fmdneg\/smart_name_tags_for_my_plants\/\">Smart name tags for my plants.<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/AColdFloor\/\">u\/AColdFloor<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homeassistant\/\">homeassistant<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">E-Ink display as a smart tag<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>E-Ink displays<\/strong> (electronic ink) are a special screen technology that is characterized by its low power consumption and high readability, even in direct sunlight. They work by charging tiny capsules in the screen surface. These capsules contain black and white particles that are moved to the surface by electric fields to display images or text. A major advantage of e-ink displays is that they only consume power when the image is updated, making them ideal for applications such as e-readers or smart name tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/08\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-1024x678-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/08\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-1024x678-1.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-300x199.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-768x509.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash-360x239.jpg 360w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/james-tarbotton-gm18kqu9TxQ-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price tags in modern supermarkets are now also E-INK displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is how it is done<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get the values such as humidity into <a href=\"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/category\/home-assistant\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"Home Assistant\">Home Assistant<\/a>, the Xiaomi Flower Care sensors are used here. The data is transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/category\/home-assistant\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"Home Assistant\">Home Assistant<\/a> via an ESP32 Bluetooth proxy and then via the WLAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data is then displayed on E-INK displays running on <a href=\"https:\/\/openepaperlink.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenEPaperLink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"netgu-4028320198\" class=\"netgu-after-content netgu-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6258556257245998\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6258556257245998\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"4559785002\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Assistant makes creative smart home projects possible. See how smart e-ink name tags display plant sensor data like humidity via ESP32 and OpenEPaperLink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tobias","author_link":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/smart-home\/author\/tobias-pries\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Home Assistant makes creative smart home projects possible. 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