Integrating Xiaomi Mi Scale

vicentecandido · March 17, 2021, 11:02pm

I switched the device and put a usb wifi board.
I too changed HCI_DEV for hci0 to hci1.
It worked! MQQT Explorer detected Mi Scale Body Composition 2.

Thanks for help me.

giedrius.stan · March 23, 2021, 9:33am

Somehow I made it work consistently on my RPi and I also spent some time and setup this nice interface in lovalace using Grafana

lolouk44 · March 23, 2021, 4:57pm

Giving everyone a heads up.
I’m publishing version 0.2.0 which allows unlimited users. This does however come with a breaking change.

Breaking Changes

Please note that as off 0.2.0, the config is now located in options.json and no longer in the docker-compose / environment. Be sure to check the Doc for more information. This change was necessary to allow for unlimited number of users.

Added

Added BLUEPY_PASSIVE_SCAN Option for Raspberry Pi users experiencing Bluetooth troubles (in case you’re not using the add-on)

vicentecandido · March 27, 2021, 6:29am

I have a problem.
The scale work for me, but it stop working after some time.

I have a notebook + ubuntu + docker + homeassistant container + mi-scale container.

I have 2 bluetooh boards in notebook (native dont work perfectly + usb board working 100%). I set default hci1 (usb bluetooth) and worked for me, however after press EXIT in console (bluetoothctl) and enter again, hci1 isn’t no more default.

1. root@ubuntuserver:/home/vicente/docker-compose# bluetoothctl
2. Agent registered
3. [bluetooth]# list
4. Controller C4:85:08:64:89:C0 ubuntuserver #1 [default]
5. Controller 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 ubuntuserver
6. [bluetooth]#
7. [bluetooth]# select 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13
8. Controller 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 ubuntuserver [default]
9. [bluetooth]# agent KeyboardOnly
10. Agent is already registered
11. [bluetooth]# default-agent
12. Default agent request successful
13. [bluetooth]# power on
14. Changing power on succeeded
15. [bluetooth]# list
16. Controller C4:85:08:64:89:C0 ubuntuserver #1
17. Controller 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 ubuntuserver [default]
18. [bluetooth]# exit
19. root@ubuntuserver:/home/vicente/docker-compose# bluetoothctl
20. Agent registered
21. [bluetooth]# list
22. Controller C4:85:08:64:89:C0 ubuntuserver #1 [default]
23. Controller 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 ubuntuserver
24. [bluetooth]#

In Line 18, when I exit, the 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 controller is default (see line 17) but after mysteriously C4:85:08:64:89:C0 turns default (see line 22). I believe that’s the problem.

lolouk44 · March 27, 2021, 7:53am

It doesn’t really matter which one is the default. You can select the hci number in the options.json settings

dapper2490 · March 29, 2021, 2:32pm

Thanks for the useful integration. Unfortunately I tried installing through Community store but I get the message ’ Repostitory structure for 0.2.0 is not compliant’

lolouk44 · March 29, 2021, 5:22pm

Thanks. I didn’t realise the “old” structure meant installs were blocked, as far as I understood it was just deprecated.
I need to update the add-on indeed. Will try and see if I can make time this week

dapper2490 · March 30, 2021, 10:23am

That’s fantastic, thank you so much.

lolouk44 · March 30, 2021, 5:19pm

Can you confirm when you get this message?
I’m trying to figure out what I need to change (HACS or HA Add-On side)…

dapper2490 · March 30, 2021, 7:16pm

It’s when I pasted your Github address into HACS Community custom repositories. I hit ‘add’ and get this message.

lolouk44 · March 30, 2021, 7:19pm

ah OK. I did try it but I guess it kept some info in the cache as it allowed me to re-add it
trying now to remove and reboot to see if it works or not.
Watch this space

[Edit] which URL are you entering? I just managed to add again using https://github.com/lolouk44/hassio-addons

[Edit 2] @dapper2490 Are you trying to add my repo via HACS? If so that won’t work. you need to add the repo URL via the Supervisor > Add-On Store > ⁞ > Repositories

dapper2490 · March 31, 2021, 8:54am

That’s it working through Supervisor. Sorry that I misunderstood how to install and took up some of your time! I must learn not to jump ahead with these things. Thanks again for the great integration.

Bobby_Brown · April 7, 2021, 3:24pm

options.json

{
  "options": {
    "MISCALE_MAC": "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", #hidden
    "MQTT_HOST": "127.0.0.1",
    "USERS": [
      {
        "GT": 60,
        "LT": 80,
        "SEX": "male",
        "NAME": "Bob",
        "HEIGHT": 200,
        "DOB": "1990-01-01"
      }
    ]
  }
}

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  mi-scale:
    image: lolouk44/xiaomi-mi-scale:latest
    container_name: mi-scale
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    privileged: true
    volumes:
      - .docker/mi-scale:/data

Hi, I’m running HA on a RPI Zero W (not recommended I know…) and running the mi-scale container on the same device as per above YAML and JSON files. For the life of me I cannot figure out why I am getting the error on the attached screenshot.
Any help greatly appreciated.

lolouk44 · April 8, 2021, 8:42am

sounds like you’re having issues connecting to your MQTT Broker. Did you forget to add the MQTT Credentials in your options.json?

Bobby_Brown · April 8, 2021, 9:20am

I must have misunderstood, I thought your package included a MQTT broker so I left all value related to it by default… Could you recommend a MQTT broker or any will just do?

lolouk44 · April 8, 2021, 9:56am

no you need your own broker.
You can either use the HA mosquitto add-on

Bobby_Brown · April 9, 2021, 8:21am

Thank everything works now.

Himdola · April 9, 2021, 7:58pm

which version of the xioami scale can we buy to work it with unlimited users? There are 2 versions i think on Ali.

lolouk44 · April 15, 2021, 7:32pm

Check my repo, I list what it has been reported to be working with…

Ernst · April 15, 2021, 8:27pm

I hope it’s ok to share this in this topic. BLE monitor now also supports Xiaomi Mi Scales. BLE monitor passively monitors a lot of BLE sensors, and has added the scales recently.