Yet Another Xiaomi Miflora Script

[madrian]

Why I "wrote" another script for Miflora sensor? There is another python plugin for Miflora, but it works unreliable if you have sensors at a far distance. If the python plugin cannot read Miflora sensor, it's stuck in a state where you can't read anymore any sensors.

So here is a more reliable method:

0: setup your bluetooth dongle, make sure you see BLE devices with "sudo hcitool lescan". Python3, PIP installations are neccessary.

Install bluepy:

https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy

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$ sudo apt-get install git build-essential libglib2.0-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy.git
$ cd bluepy
$ python3 setup.py build
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

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$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip libglib2.0-dev
$ sudo pip3 install bluepy

If I remember correctly I did the two installation method after each other, after that bluepy backend worked correctly in the demo.py script. In a normal case you install manually (first case) or via pip3 install.

Let's move on.

On Ubuntu 16.04 bluez comes with gatttool, which works fine with this script. I red somewhere that gatttool is missing from newer installations, if that's the case, just use bluepy as the backend.

At this moment bluepy is my preferred backend, it seem to be reliable.


1:

Download latest Miflora library release from Github

https://github.com/open-homeautomation/miflora/releases

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts$ wget https://github.com/open-homeautomation/miflora/archive/v0.4.zip
madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts$ unzip v0.4.zip
madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts$ cd miflora-0.4/

The script can poll data with various backends: gatttool, bluepy.

You can verify working of both backend with:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ sudo ./demo.py --backend gatttool scan

Bumm, it's not implemented for gatttool. Ok. Let's try bluepy as backend:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ sudo ./demo.py --backend bluepy scan
Scanning for 10 seconds...
Found 3 devices:
  C4:7C:8D:62:xx:xx
  C4:7C:8D:63:xx:xx
  C4:7C:8D:61:xx:xx

That's just worked fine.

Let's try to get some data:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ sudo ./demo.py --backend gatttool poll C4:7C:8D:61:xx:xx
Getting data from Mi Flora
FW: 3.1.8
Name: Flower care
Temperature: 34.3
Moisture: 38
Light: 68503
Conductivity: 326
Battery: 99

Gatttool worked perfectly. Let's try bluepy as backend:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ sudo ./demo.py --backend bluepy poll C4:7C:8D:61:AA:A8
Getting data from Mi Flora
FW: 3.1.8
Name: Flower care
Temperature: 34.1
Moisture: 38
Light: 72156
Conductivity: 328
Battery: 99

Nice.

We have a working setup, let's write some script to connect with Domoticz.

Create dummy devices for each sensors. I have these per sensor:

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Put these scripts in the folder above miflora-0.4.

domo.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

while read -r prefix val; do
    case "$prefix" in 
        FW:) fw=$val ;;
        Name:) name=$val ;;
        Temperature:) temp=$val ;;
        Moisture:) mt=$val ;;
        Light:) lt=$val ;;
        Conductivity:) ct=$val ;;
        Battery:) bt=$val ;;
    esac
done < <(sudo ./demo.py --backend bluepy poll $1)

#moisture
curl "http://localhost:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx=$2&nvalue=0&svalue=$mt&battery=$bt"

#temperature
curl "http://localhost:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx=$3&nvalue=0&svalue=$temp&battery=$bt"

#light
curl "http://localhost:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx=$4&svalue=$lt&battery=$bt"

#conductivity
curl "http://localhost:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx=$5&nvalue=0&svalue=$ct&battery=$bt"

You can test at this point:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ ./domo.sh C4:7C:8D:63:7A:11 103 104 105 106
{
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "Update Device"
}
{
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "Update Device"
}
{
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "Update Device"
}
{
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "Update Device"
}

Note the syntax is: ./domo.sh mac_address_of_the_miflora moisture_idx temperature_idx light_idx condictivity_idx

Everything is working fine. I have multiple sensors so I wrote another script:

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madrian@ubuntu:~/scripts/miflora-0.4$ cat run_domo.sh 
#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

#fc1
/home/madrian/scripts/miflora-0.4/domo.sh C4:7C:8D:63:xx:xx 103 104 105 106

#fc2
/home/madrian/scripts/miflora-0.4/domo.sh C4:7C:8D:62:xx:xx 107 108 109 110

#fc3
/home/madria/scripts/miflora-0.4/domo.sh C4:7C:8D:61:xx:xx 111 112 113 114

Do one more test by running ./run_domo.sh

Finally make a new crontab to call this script every x minutes.

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*/30 * * * * /home/madrian/scripts/miflora-0.4/run_domo.sh  >/dev/null 2>&1

[Kivi]

Thank you for this guide, I just had this horror crash all the time.. trying your way .

[totof60]

Thanks it work fine for me