Xiaomi Mi Flora [Temp/Light/Moisture] BLE Sensor

[deennoo]

Update to last stable @lepetitnicolas

[pvm]

Add hardware type dummy and after that the switches

[lepetitnicolas]

Thanks
I found it.... in french "Custom sensor" is translate in "texte"
I'm waiting tomorrow to see if my crontab works.

[trixwood]

https://crontab.guru

[deennoo]

Thanks
I found it.... in french "Custom sensor" is translate in "texte"
I'm waiting tomorrow to see if my crontab works.

No lepetitnicolas, his name on french is :

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[lepetitnicolas]

Thanks Deennoo.
Now, i see it....i don't know why it don't see it yesterday.... tiredness
but it seems working with a text sensor.

I would try this tonight to see the difference

[deennoo]

advantage of a custom sensor is that you can have a graphique to show value (text doesn't do this)

[jadon]

yes! as many as you like.

Does anybody has some info on how long the battery will last?

The users manual promises a year, but IMHO it really depends on your using habits: i.e. if you poll the data every minute, it will suck the battery really fast.

I'm using it since nov 20, so almost a month, and I'm polling the sensor every hour. The battery reports 79%. So I'm guessing it could last a year, maybe by polling it every 2 hours.

[simply]

Impressive small devices! Ordered four of them and they arrived this friday. Got it all working yesterday after installing Jessie on my RPi B2 and then following the guide @ http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LE .

Thanks for the script posted here...

[jkimmel]

Running the modified script I get

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pTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "flora.py", line 1, in <module>
    import urllib.request
ImportError: No module named request

What I'm missing?

[trixwood]

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pip install requests

[jkimmel]

I don't get the script running, I'm completely new to Phyton.

Please what has to be installed to run it?

[trixwood]

Yes so install the missing module with the command

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pip install requests

[LouiS22]

So I got mine today. Paired with my phone, downloaded the app, so far so good.

But...

I'm having hard time working with Domoticz. I followed the above guides, compiled bluez, my dongle is ok, lescan shows the MAC, etc. I've changed the MAC address in demo.py, but all I got in return is the following:

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FW: None 
File "demo.py", line 7, in <module>
    print("Name: {}".format(poller.name()))
  File "/home/pi/miflora/miflora/miflora_poller.py", line 172, in name
    timeout=self.ble_timeout)
  File "/home/pi/miflora/miflora/miflora_poller.py", line 139, in read_ble
    time.sleep(delay)

I have no Idea what's wrong. Maybe worth mentoning that the android app downloaded a firmware upgrade so the device runs a 2.7.0 firmware.

Any ideas?

[deennoo]

Mine works on 2.7.0 fw and script is still working, fw isn't the key

[trixwood]

It relies on gatttool... are you sure it's installed in /usr/local/bin/?

Further make sure you enable low energy:

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sudo btmgmt le on

Follow this guide to compile:
https://urbanjack.wordpress.com/?s=Bluez+into+BLE

[LouiS22]

It relies on gatttool... are you sure it's installed in /usr/local/bin/?

Further make sure you enable low energy:

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sudo btmgmt le on

Follow this guide to compile:
https://urbanjack.wordpress.com/?s=Bluez+into+BLE

Had a quick look on this morning, seems i screwed something, thanks for the info, will look into this later, and will do another compile, just to make sure.

[LouiS22]

It relies on gatttool... are you sure it's installed in /usr/local/bin/?

Further make sure you enable low energy:

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sudo btmgmt le on

Follow this guide to compile:
https://urbanjack.wordpress.com/?s=Bluez+into+BLE

Thanks, It's working now. Don't know what missed before, nevertheless I recompiled everything again and it's ok now.

[trixwood]

If you get more mi floras make sure you put 1 second sleep delay between readings... it seems to help with keeping the failed and retry connections to a minimum (none in my case), which happened a lot if executed directly after each other..

See: https://github.com/Tristan79/miflora/bl ... omoticz.py

[LouiS22]

If you get more mi floras make sure you put 1 second sleep delay between readings... it seems to help with keeping the failed and retry connections to a minimum (none in my case), which happened a lot if executed directly after each other..

See: https://github.com/Tristan79/miflora/bl ... omoticz.py

Thanks I only had time to test with the demo.py