Integrating our Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner into Home Assistant

If we are lucky enough to have the best vacuum cleaner on the market, that is, a Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum and you want to continue integrating everything into Home Assistant to have your smart home controlled from a single point, This is your post. You will see that in 5 minutes you have it mounted and you can control the vacuum cleaner, as well as to know any detail from Hassio. And at the end we will know how to learn areas, like cooking, and send him to automatically inhale after lunchtime those crumbs that we have dropped, ¡ah! And in silence because it's nap time.

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 😉