astrobokonon/esphome-influxdb

InfluxDB 1.x custom component for ESPHome

InfluxDB custom component for ESPHome

Installation

Add this repository as an submodule in your esphome custom_compontents; git submodule add https://github.com/Jepsson/esphome-influxdb custom_components/influxdb

Usage

Add influxdb section to your ESPHome configuration file.

Example configuration

influxdb:
  host: "influxdb-host"
  sensors:
    meter_id:
      ignore: True
    ams_temperature:
      measurement: 'temperature'
      tags: 
        room: kitchen

Configuration variables

• host (Required, string): Hostname or IP for the InfluxDB server
• port (Optional, int, default: 8086): Port number the InfluxDB server is listening on.
• username (Optional, string, default: ""): Username used when connecting to influxdb.
• password (Optional, string, default: ""): Password used when connecting to influxdb.
• database (Optional, string, default: "esphome"): Name of influxdb database.
• send_timeout (Optional, time, default: "500ms"): Time to wait before sending UDP packets which have not been filled to max size.
• publish_all (Optional, boolean, default: True): If true, publish updates from all sensors unless explicitly ignored in per sensor configuration. If false, only publish updates from sensors explicitly configured.
• tags (Optional, mapping, default 'node: <esphome.name>'): Mapping of tag keys and values.
• sensors (Optional, mapping, default: {}): Per sensor configuration. Keys are sensor IDs. All types of sensors are included in this mapping, there is no distinction between float, binary and text sensors.

Sensor configuration variables

• ignore (Optional, boolean, default: False): Whether or not to include updates for this sensor.
• measurement (Optional, string): Name of measurements with update from this sensor. Defaults to the sanitized name of the sensor.
• retention (Optional, string): Use a retention policy
• tags (Optional, mapping, default: {}): Additional tags added for this sensor.