Monitoring the status of our Xiaomi Mi Vacuum robot vacuum cleaner in Grafana

If we have the wonderful and all-powerful Xiaomi robot vacuum cleaner and you want to visualize its data in a Grafana dashboard, This is your post! In it we will see how to connect to the vacuum cleaner, how we can ask you questions and obtain all kinds of interesting data, and then store it in a MySQL database that we will attack with Grafana to visualize and process these metrics.

Monitoring our Bosch Indego lawnmower with Grafana

Come, We continue with a somewhat geeky post, but if you have a garden you may be interested… The thing is, I have one of those robots that mow the lawn at home, specifically a Bosch Indego 350, and through an API given to us by the manufacturer we will be able to know the status of the lawnmower at all times, as well as having access to some interesting values; And by the way, with this API we will also be able to control it, At the end of the post we will see how to check the weather and if it is not raining, Well, we sent it to be cut 😉

Getting data from the Fitbit bracelet using Python and displaying graphs in Grafana

How is it going? Today we are going with a document that will surely be of interest to all those who have a Fitbit bracelet, with which you already know that we can obtain data about our lifestyle and such… Well, if you want to exploit this information and see it in beautiful graphics, This is your document! Using a Python script we will obtain the measurements that interest us and store them in a MySQL database, and then with Grafana paint the graphics that interest us!