Parrot Flower Power
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,305 words · ~6 min read
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fully private click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of
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the parrot flower power what the hell is this you might be asking yourself and
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what it is is a very Innovative little product as the wise Sheldon Cooper once
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said Penny everything is better with
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Bluetooth now you can use Bluetooth to grow your plants right now compatibility
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is limited to iOS devices only that support Bluetooth smart but
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compatibility may be extended to other Platforms in the future however it does
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need bluetooth smart in order to function it has to be very power
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efficient in order for something like this to make sense the flower power is
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meant to be planted close to an indoor or outdoor plant it is water resistant
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so that is ipx 5 and ipx7 certification and features sensors
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which I I'm trying to extract it from the box ah there we go all right it
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features sensors for sunlight so that
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one's right here soil moisture which is actually very look at this eco-friendly
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cardboard packaging I love it even the little like fake planter box that comes
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in is a uh is like a piece of paper and
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then there's like a little packet that looks like seeds or something with the
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instructions in it it's adorable those parrot guys they so funny anyway
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sunlight soil moisture I'm going to stop buying time for myself to get this thing
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out of here aha okay soil moisture
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fertilizer levels and finally air temperature are all detected by this
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thing so it is designed for people like me who allow things like that to happen
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to every plant that they touch look how dead that thing is I even my wife had a
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fairly Brown thumb for the longest time until she finally had one flower an
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orchid that she managed to keep alive for an extended period of time which I
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plan to steal and see if I can then replicate that feet by using this it
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sends push notifications to your phone and you set it up by selecting from a
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database of more than 6,000 plants trees and vegetables and it'll basically tell
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you stuff like oh hey you could more optimally position this plant in order
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to get the right amount of sunlight or hey this plant needs water you're 3 days
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late and cool stuff like that so without further Ado I have to go retrieve that
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flower which might be a bit of a problem
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all right so I have a dastardly plan to test the flower power I'm going to head
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home and I'm going to steal my wife's plant okay I don't think she sees
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me
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sh okay got to switch to night vision
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mode oh that doesn't seem to be working very well
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H oh bollocks I guess I could just turn on a light ah yes apparently night
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vision Mode still needs a little bit of light
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ow kids all right there's the
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victim the flower that I'm stealing
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now putting it by the door taking it with me tomorrow
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she will never
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know why are you taking my orchid I don't have your orchid I don't
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know what you're talking about this is her Orchid I'm taking it
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so I can test the the plant monitor app
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thing all right so I have returned alive from my mission here guys and I've also
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figured out how to install the battery in this thing so positive terminal down
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then it's got a nice little Rubber seal here you go ahead and uh pop that bad
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boy into place there you go twist it so
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it's can you know stay oh there you go look at that green thing goes on so what
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I'm going to do is because I don't own an iPad Mini or you know an iPhone 4S or
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an iPad third gen is I'm actually going to borrow one to set this up then in the
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time that I'm waiting for mine to come in um we will give it about a week and
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see if the plant manages to stay alive so we're just going to stab it into the
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plant here which hopefully won't damage it and there you have it it is installed
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wish me luck because if this thing dies in the week that we are testing this I
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will die too so I think the conclusion for this
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is actually fairly simple now I've had this plant uh running on the flower
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power since wow actually uh it's been uh
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just over a month and so you can actually see it gives you little handy
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little graphs here you can look at live data you can look at Daily data weekly
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data so you can break down things like sunlight in terms of how it's doing for
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light per day versus per week so you can
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see patterns in the daylight over even as much as a month 3 months 6 months
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over a year and I think the conclusion here is that while the flower power can
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tell you all of this information you can actually see the plant isn't in very
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good shape there's nothing it can do to make you actually deal with it um so in
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this case you can see the water level when I got the plant was around uh well
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around 15% and then it dropped all the way down to about 5% which looks like it
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might have floored out which might even be the lowest that it can measure and
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then I just kind of didn't do anything with it for like about 10 or 15 days in
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there and so yeah is it in the greatest condition no but is that the flower
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power's fault no it actually seems to work incredibly well uh the only thing
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that it didn't track for me was fertilizer which makes sense because I
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don't have any fertilizer in here at all so there you go guys if you're looking
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for a supremely awesome gift for the gardener and your family and you're
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willing to spend 60 bucks for something that helps you at least know how to take
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care of your plants even if it doesn't help you be any less you know absent-minded about actually doing
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anything I mean it does give you notifications okay it does help you be
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less absent minded okay if it doesn't help you be less lazy then there you go
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guys the flower power looks like a very very cool little Gadget as always guys
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don't forget to like this video if you like it dislike it if you disliked it
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leave a comment and let me know what you think not just about the flower power
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I'd love to hear if you guys can think of someone in your family this would make sense for and of course there's a
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link to where to buy it in the video description but uh you know what do you
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think of just generally connected items like this are you okay having connected
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stuff all over your house or would you rather we just like you know treat you
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know just learn how to take care of your plants and just do it love to hear what
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you guys think about that as always guys also don't forget to subscribe and thank
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you for watching
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