Integrating Xiaomi Mi Scale

godinperson · October 19, 2018, 7:49pm

Are you guys thinking into making this an official component? Would be easier to use. Were you able to make it works? Would love to see my data sent to my Home assistant directly instead of having to bring my mobile with me all the time

lolouk44 · October 22, 2018, 4:20pm

no idea if anyone is doing this. only thing is that the component would need to know what type/version of scale is being linked. I personally don’t have the knowledge of skill to create a component I’m afraid.

Wingjam · November 16, 2018, 4:01pm

Hi,

If it can help anybody here, I’ve recently created https://github.com/Wingjam/ReverseMiScale mostly a Python port of https://github.com/perillamint/node-xiaomi-scale.

This Python code run perfectly on my Raspberry Pi.

Jonathan

OXOTH1K · November 29, 2018, 6:04pm

Hi! I was install your add-on. For command sudo python3 example.py I see this out:

{
“UUID”: “181b”,
“address”: “c6:da:34:3c:ae:cc”,
“isStabilized”: false,
“loadRemoved”: false,
“manufacturerData”: “5701c6da343caecc”,
“rawData”: “02a4e2070b1d152c1dfdff043d”,
“sequence”: 7677,
“unit”: “kg”,
“weight”: 290.1
}

How I can use it for Home Assistant? And my weight is not correct.

Wingjam · November 30, 2018, 2:50pm

Hi,

Currently this project does not support Home Assistant (and is not plan to). If you want to create a port for Home Assistant (let’s say exampleHomeAssistant.py), feel free to do it because i’m not an expert with Home Assistant.

The weight is not correct … that’s strange, my weight is good for me. I will investigate some time in this. Which unit did you choose under the scale (there is a toggle button beside batteries)?

Jonathan

lolouk44 · November 30, 2018, 4:13pm

if it helps anyone I’ve loaded a copy of my script here:
https://github.com/lolouk44/xiaomi_mi_scale/blob/master/Xiaomi_Scale.py

Yoni_Almog · February 26, 2019, 2:04pm

Hi,
Is it possible to use Xiaomi Mi scale in Home assistant under Hass.io ?
If I understand correctly, the solutions here required to run sudo with is not supported in Hass.io.
Can anyone help ?

ReDaLeRt · March 18, 2019, 8:37pm

Hi.

Yes, this would be interesting to have an easy integration with hassio.

Thanks.

SmartHomeGuy · March 22, 2019, 8:39pm

Hi,

Also very interested in integrating this with Hassio.

Thanks!

ReDaLeRt · March 23, 2019, 12:29pm

If anyone is interested on contributing, please, check my github:

https://github.com/tiagofreire-pt/xiaomi_mi_scale

Regards.

Michal_Ciemiega · March 23, 2019, 12:34pm

I’m using my gateway for miscale integratoin, and other ble devices: https://github.com/zewelor/bt-mqtt-gateway

bachoo786 · March 24, 2019, 1:28am

Hi @lolouk44 @Michal_Ciemiega

Can I just ask how does you miscale communicate with your machine running HA? Surely the bluetooth range between the 2 has to be minimum in order to achieve any connection? Is that correct? And what are the ranges we are talking about?

Can I have my miscale in the bathroom and pi running HA in another room and expect them to talk via bluetooth?

Thanks

lolouk44 · March 24, 2019, 7:52am

It’s Bluetooth si you’re looking at standard 10m / 3 feet I guess. My scale is in the bathroom which happens to be on first floor almost right above the ha server that’s on the ground floor

Michal_Ciemiega · March 24, 2019, 8:13am

I’m using raspberry pi zero w, which runs my gateway. My HA server is in the basement so no BLE range from there In your scenario ( bathroom and next room, or 2 rooms next ). Bluetooth on rpi with HA, it should work without any problems.

bachoo786 · March 24, 2019, 12:24pm

@Michal_Ciemiega @lolouk44 Right thanks for that. I want to get one from aliexpress do you guys recommend mi scale 1 or 2? And which one would work with HA via the BLE mqtt integration?

Also is there a docker image for the BLE MQTT integration?

Thanks

Michal_Ciemiega · March 24, 2019, 1:31pm

I got mi scale 1, and it works

lolouk44 · March 24, 2019, 7:13pm

I’m not sure which version it is, I think it may be V2.
It’s this one anyway and it works well

bachoo786 · March 24, 2019, 9:16pm

Thanks guys.

Do you know if there is a docker image for the BLE MQTT integration?

lolouk44 · March 25, 2019, 9:25am

sorry I don’t know any, though above script has everything
If MQTT integration doesn’t work, you can try a bash command instead.
You’d basically need to remove:

replace import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt with import subprocess
remove the mqtt bits (def __init__(self): and def _start_client(self):)
replace self.mqtt_client.publish(prefix, weight, qos=1, retain=True) with

MQTT_Command = ["mosquitto_pub", "-h", MQTT_HOST, "-p", MQTT_PORT, "-u", MQTT_USER, "-P", MQTT_PASSWORD, "-t", prefix, "-r", "-m", weight, "-q", "1"]
ps = subprocess.Popen(MQTT_Command)

replace self.mqtt_client.publish(prefix, mitdatetime, qos=1, retain=True) with

MQTT_Command = ["mosquitto_pub", "-h", MQTT_HOST, "-p", MQTT_PORT, "-u", MQTT_USER, "-P", MQTT_PASSWORD, "-t", prefix, "-r", "-m", mitdatetime, "-q", "1"]
ps = subprocess.Popen(MQTT_Command)

replace self.mqtt_client.publish(prefix, miimpedance, qos=1, retain=True)
with

MQTT_Command = ["mosquitto_pub", "-h", MQTT_HOST, "-p", MQTT_PORT, "-u", MQTT_USER, "-P", MQTT_PASSWORD, "-t", prefix, "-r", "-m", miimpedance, "-q", "1"]
ps = subprocess.Popen(MQTT_Command)

bachoo786 · March 25, 2019, 4:58pm

So let me get this right:

you connect your mi scale to your raspberry via bluetooth permanently
the raspberry is running your script 24/7 as a cron job in the background.
the data obtained from the scale is transferred to raspberry via bluetooth and to mqtt via your script.
the mqtt data can then be linked to HA.

Is that how it works?