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.

Using a fingerprint reader on Raspberry Pi

Imagine the thousand possibilities that having an optical fingerprint sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi gives us, We will be able to capture and identify the information of the fingerprints that interest us and take actions based on it. In my particular case I put it at the entrance to the house, If you find my footprint or those of my family, because it opens the door without the need for keys!

Measuring atmospheric pressure with Raspberry Pi

If we want to know and monitor atmospheric pressure in a cheap way… How could you not… This is your document! We can do it quickly with a Raspberry Pi and a sensor that barely goes beyond the 2 Euros! In this post we will see all the steps you will need to achieve it, Also as always… we will store the measurements in a MySQL database and then we will visualize the values with beautiful graphs thanks to Grafana!

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!

Getting data from our Xiaomi Smart Scale with Raspberry Pi

If you have the Xiaomi Smart Scale scale, follow the steps in this document and you will be able to read your weight from a Raspberry Pi, by connecting via bluetooth we will store the records in a MySQL database, and so if we want we can exploit them super easily with Grafana! I will leave you with a series of documents that I think are very interesting to obtain information from different devices that control our life and visualize it in a super cool way!