temperature-sensor-scanner

A tool to scan nearby Bluetooth Low Energy thermometers on the Telink chipset, collect the data ane emit it into
InfluxDB.

Setup

• Create an influxdb user with a command like influx user create --org [my-org] --name [my-username] --password [my-password]
• Create an influxdb token with a command like influx auth create --org [my-org] --user [my-username] --write-bucket [my-bucket-id]
• Create a config.yaml in ~/.config/temperature-sensor-scanner/ based on the config.example.yaml file
• Install this tool with a command like pip install temperature-sensor-scanner

Usage

Run temperature-sensor-scanner which will scan for nearby sensors which are emitting temperature data in their Bluetooth
advertising string, collect that data, and emit it into InfluxDB.

Notes

• https://github.com/pvvx/ATC_MiThermometer/
• https://pvvx.github.io/ATC_MiThermometer/TelinkMiFlasher.html
  • Launch in Chrome instead of Firefox
• Other tools that look interesting
  • https://github.com/JsBergbau/MiTemperature2

Steps to provision a new sensor

• Flash the firmware
  • Click Connect
  • Select the LYWSD03MMC Bluetooth device in the menu
  • Click Do Activation
  • Choose Custom Firmware ATC_v56.bin
  • Click Start Flashing
  • Wait 42 seconds for it to show update done
• Identify ID from Bluetooth announced name and print a label to put on the sensor
• Quit Chrome and start again
• Configure sensor
  • Set display to Farenheight
  • Click Set Time
  • Set advertising type to ATC1441
  • Set advertising interval to 10000 ( pvvx/ATC_MiThermometer#23 (comment) )
  • Set Measure interval: to 10
  • Click Send Config