WatchFlower is a free and open source plant monitoring application for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Using WatchFlower you can read and plot data from compatible Bluetooth plant monitoring sensors and thermometers like MiJia, Flower Care, Ropot, Flower Power,Parrot Pot and more. It comes with real time data mode, you can sync sensor history, background updates & notifications and Monthly/weekly/daily data histograms. You can export 90 days data in CSV file.
Install WatchFlower on Ubuntu Linux
WatchFlower is available as a portable AppImage and flatpak package from flathub. Go to the above WatchFlower download link and download WatchFlower in .AppImage file format and save it on your Downloads folder. Then open terminal command-line app (ctrl+alt+t) and run below commands one by one.
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ WatchFlower-3.1-linux64.AppImage
./WatchFlower-3.1-linux64.AppImage
Install WatchFlower via Flatpak:
Install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it. In terminal application run below WatchFlower flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub io.emeric.watchflower
After the installation you can run the WatchFlower app using below command.
flatpak run io.emeric.watchflower
And you can uninstall it via
sudo flatpak uninstall io.emeric.watchflower
That’s it.