Inkbird to Homeassistant

The purpose of this project is to get popular multi-probe inkbird thermometers into homeassistant for automations, temperature logging, changing lights based on BBQ status, and whatever else you can think of.

Requirements

• Linux System with Bleutooth enabled
• Python/Python3 with python pip
• Docker with docker-composed

Setting up the host:

• apt update && apt dist-upgrade
• curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
• sh get-docker.sh
• apt install docker-compose python-pip

Quick Start

The easiest way to run this probject is to run the image from docker hub using docker-compose

wget https://github.com/DhrSoulslayer/inkbird/blob/dev/docker-compose.yaml

You will need to modify the environmental variables so open docker-compose.yaml with your favorite editor and adjust the settings were needed.

Variable	Required (Y/N)	Description
INKBIRD_MQTT_HOST	Y	MQTT server that home assistant uses
INKBIRD_ADDRESS	Y	The bluetooth address for the inkbird
INKBIRD_MQTT_USERNAME	N	MQTT username
INKBIRD_MQTT_PASSWORD	N	MQTT password
INKBIRD_TEMP_UNITS	N	Set to F for farenheit and C for celsius (defaults to F)

Then just run docker-compose up -d