Python script to automate reading of MiBand2/3 watch data on regular intervals and sending it to InfluxDB
a crontab job is scheduled to run every 5 minutes which calls this script with two parameters - BLE address of the device and friendly name of the device (which is used to submit data to InfluxDB)
Data from watch is read every 15 minutes; if watch is not nearby, script will try to communicate with watch every 5 minutes (crontab) until successful - then it reads data every 15 minutes again.
Timestamp of last successful data read from watch is saved to <<WATCH_FRIENDLY_NAME>>.time
Config with InfluxDB credentials is saved locally.
Awesome work by creotiv: https://github.com/creotiv/MiBand2
Python client for InfluxDB: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python
(please follow instructions for installation of the above two - that should suffice)
Edit run.sh and change watch BLE address and friendly name
*/5 * * * * [path_to_script_dir]/run.sh[DEFAULT]
#frequency of reading watch data (minutes)
check_frequency = 15
# for how many previous hours data should be read from band, do not use more than couple of days because of ble timeout
prev_hours = 24
#Influx DB params
influx_host = myweb.com
influx_port = 8086
influx_user = myuser
influx_pass = mypass
influx_db = mydb