Write status of Midea dehumidifers to InfluxDB.
I have a Midea dehumidifier that I want to monitor with InfluxDB.
I cannot get the midea-beautiful-air Python client to work completely with my dehumidifier (see nbogojevic/midea-beautiful-air/issues/36). I can get it to print out some useful information when discovering devices.
Therefore:
- This program just calls
midea-beautiful-air-cli discoverwith user-configurable flags. - This is explicitly a minimal-effort project, since I don't trust that
midea-beautiful-airwill continue working at all long-term. - This program only supports dehumidifiers right now, as I don't have any other Midea devices.
- This project is intended to work primarily as a Docker container, since it expects
midea-beautiful-air-clito be in thePATH. - No effort was spent on simplifying initial setup & figuring out what arguments you need to pass to
midea-beautiful-air-cli discover. You need to find a set of working arguments and give them in the config JSON file.
A minimal usage example is this, which one would run as desired via a cron job:
docker run --rm --network host -v /home/cdzombak/.config/midea2influx.json:/config.json:ro cdzombak/midea2influx:1This assumes you're storing your JSON configuration file at /home/cdzombak/.config/midea2influx.json. Configuration is discussed in the next section.
Note that the midea-beautiful-air library must be able to broadcast UDP packets on the same network as your dehumidifier(s). This is possible with Docker on Linux if the Docker host is on the same network as your dehumidifier(s) and you pass the --network host flag to docker run as shown above.
Details TK (#1); for now see config.example.json.
MIT; see LICENSE in this repository.
Chris Dzombak.