HueToInflux

https://github.com/GavinLucas/HueToInflux

Script to take data from a Hue Bridge and post it to InfluxDB in order to view the data in Grafana.

Currently, it collects occupancy, temperature and light readings from Hue Motion Sensors, on/off state of Smart Plugs and the brightness of lights, but could be modified to collect other data from the Hue Bridge.

• Temperature data uses the units specified in the settings file
• Light level is in lux
• Occupancy (movement) is output as boolean 0 or 1 (1 for movement detected)
• Smart Plugs state is also output as boolean 0 or 1 (1 for on)
• Brightness of dimmable lights is output as a percentage

To create a username and password for the Hue Bridge, follow the instructions here: https://developers.meethue.com/develop/get-started-2/

To run the script:

• copy settings.json.example to settings.json
  • Change the permissions of the file, e.g. chmod 600 settings.json, so that it's not readable by other users
  • Fill in the values for your Hue Bridge and InfluxDB
  • Set the 'interval' to the number of seconds between each data collection
  • Set "temperature_units" to "C" (Celsius), "F" (Fahrenheit), or "K" (Kelvin) to convert the temperature to the desired units
  • The 'sensors' section is for remapping the names of sensors if you're not happy with the names in the Hue settings. This is optional
• Install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Leave the script running in a screen session and sit back and watch the data roll in.

There are a couple of options that can be passed to the script to help you understand your data:

• To dump all the data from the Hue Bridge in order to see the names, etc., run huetoinflux.py --dump and it will output all the data returned as json.
• To print the data rather than send it to InfluxDB, run huetoinflux.py --print and it will output the parsed data structure as json.