Integrating Xiaomi Mi Scale

lolouk44 · May 6, 2020, 8:12pm

If someone can show me how to create an add on I can try and have a go

haxxa · May 11, 2020, 6:41am

Just tried this with my neglected MI Scale original (no body composure) (https://hub.docker.com/r/lolouk44/xiaomi-mi-scale), never used it with BLE before yet it worked perfectly.

Really happy considering my Raspberry Pi was already acting as a server and it was 3 stories away, worked a charm .

vedran.gracanin · May 20, 2020, 2:45pm

This worked great, however the problem comes when every few minutes I want to run another script that sends data from Xiaomi Temperature Sensor. Also bluetooth, same libraries. Is there a way I can make them coexist?
I am guessing they can’t use bluetooth resources at the same time.

lolouk44 · May 21, 2020, 2:46pm

if you’re using the code from the github, I’ve just pushed a change to allow you to set the sleep time and changed the default sleep from 1s to 30 sec
if you’re using the container version, I’ll push a new version once I’ve rebuilt the containers

vedran.gracanin · May 21, 2020, 6:02pm

I really appreciate the quick reply. I have tried running the new script directly but I’m getting an error.

root@yoda:/var/script/xiaomi_mi_scale/src# bash wrapper.sh
  File "/var/script/xiaomi_mi_scale/src/Xiaomi_Scale.py", line 39
    TIME_INTERVAL = int(os.getenv('TIME_INTERVAL, '30'))
                                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

In the meantime I change it manually to 30 sec in Xiaomi_Scale.py (time.sleep) so no rush.
It’s working perfect now.

lolouk44 · May 21, 2020, 6:24pm

sorry I had committed but not pushed my change. Try again pls

vedran.gracanin · May 22, 2020, 10:11am

Not a problem, tried it, working, thanks

ygreq · May 29, 2020, 6:33pm

So many messages on this post I followed back but it is very hard to figure out if there is a working solution. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you so much!

lolouk44 · May 29, 2020, 8:31pm

If you’re asking how to connect try https://hub.docker.com/r/lolouk44/xiaomi-mi-scale

Himdola · May 31, 2020, 12:28pm

Guys,

Can someone tell me where i can startup? This integration is now in development right?

WHat is the best choise to buy a Scale? Mi Scale vers 1 or vers 2 ?
I have Zigbee and MQTT working on my Hass. Does this Mi scale have a Zigbee or do i need to implement on my HASS bluetooth and connect the scale via Bluetooth?

lolouk44 · May 31, 2020, 3:28pm

This is not an ha native integration. This is something I’ve “created” because nobody else had done it the way I wanted. It only works on Bluetooth and not really reliable of using a raspberry pi built in Bluetooth, much better with a Bluetooth dongle.
Scales v2 also provides body composition data, v2 only provides weight

Himdola · May 31, 2020, 5:42pm

Do you mean v1 only support weight?

My hass is installed on a PC under Linux. Which bluetooth dongle can i better buy? Do you have a good working tutorial how to install the dongle also?

lolouk44 · May 31, 2020, 6:45pm

As far as I know and the way the scale v1 is integrated, only weight is supported with the v1 scale
Pretty much any ble dongle should work though I obviously can’t guarantee it
As for tutorial, just head over to my repo and either select the docker version (probably the easiest) or the manual install

moderndrummer · May 31, 2020, 9:36pm

lolouk44 Thanks for your great work. Am I dumb that I am not seeing wrapper.sh anywhere? I am trying to install without docker.

EDIT: No longer on master, I got it out of the first logged release, thanks

ygreq · June 3, 2020, 10:12pm

So you are running a docker container on a machine that has bluetooth to connect to your xiaomi smart scale. And then connect to HA from the Docker container via MQTT. Do I understand correctly?

lolouk44 · June 3, 2020, 10:58pm

That’s pretty much it

ygreq · June 4, 2020, 7:06am

Thank you, lolouk44. I will try it asap

Brian_Mollegaard_Ped · June 22, 2020, 10:55am

@Tobi0892
I tried to follow you guide from GitHub - Tobi0892/xiaomi_mi_scale: Connector for Xiaomi Mi Scale
I running supervised:

Hostname	homeassistant
System	HassOS 4.10

when installing the addon I get this error after some time:

Start build local/armv7-addon-xiaomi_mi_scale:0.7
ERROR (SyncWorker_12) [supervisor.docker.addon] Can’t build local/armv7-addon-xiaomi_mi_scale:0.7: The command ‘/bin/ash -o pipefail -c pip3 install -r requirements.txt’ returned a non-zero code: 127

on running hassio on a pi3b+
Can you help?

Tobi0892 · June 22, 2020, 11:25am

@Brian_Mollegaard_Ped I am still running 3.13, there it works flawlessly. Maybe I can free up some time during the weekend to update hassOS and test the build process again.

Haven’t been following the thread since some months, but I think there is an updated version of the container from @lolouk44?

Brian_Mollegaard_Ped · June 22, 2020, 12:07pm

As I understand Lolouk44 version is for none-supervised hassio installations. (or whatever the installation is called on a raspberry 3 is call now a days, with the flashing directly to a SD card)