InfluxDB custom component for ESPHome

This custom component allows you to send sensor updates from ESPHome to an InfluxDB database with UDP.

Installation

Clone this repository into custom_components/influxdb from the directory where your ESPHome configuration is stored.

git clone https://github.com/la7dja/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): Port number the InfluxDB server is listening on. Defaults to 8089.
max_packet_size (Optional, int): Max size of UDP packets. Defaults to 500.
send_timeout (Optional, time): Time to wait before sending UDP packets which have not been filled to max size. Defaults to 100ms.
publish_all (Optional, boolean): If true publish updates from all sensors unless explicit ignored in per sensor configuration. If false only publish updates from sensors explicit configured. Defaults to True.
tags (Optional, mapping): Mapping of tag keys and values. Defaults to 'node: <esphome.name>'.
sensors (Optional, mapping): Per sensor configuration. Keys are sensor IDs. All types of sensors are included in this mapping, there is no distinquin bettwi float, binary and text sensors.

Sensor configuration variables

ignore (Optional, boolean): Whether or not to include updates for this sensor. Defaults to True.
measurement (Optional, string): Name of measurements with update from this sensor. Defaults to the sanitized name of the sensor.
tags (Optional, mapping): Additional tags added for this sensor.