HomeSeer InfluxDB Importer

A Java application which imports HomeSeer device status data into InfluxDB

hsInflux is one of numerous HomeSeer support applications created by khubla.com, including

• hsClient
• hsInflux
• hsMQTT
• hsOpenAPI

License

hsinflux is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Screen shots

Grafana was used to produce graphs and alerts on the InfluxDB Data

House Temperatures

House Relative Humidity

Battery Status

Dimmer Status

Configuration

hsinflux is configured via the file "hsinflux.properties". A typical example is

# HomeSeer
hsurl=http://192.168.75.129/JSON
hsuser=HOMESEERUSERNAME
hspassword=HOMESEERPASSWORD

# Influx
influxurl=http://192.168.75.71:8086
influxuser=INFLUXUSERNAME
influxpassword=INFLUXPASSWORD
influxdb=hsinflux

# Number of threads to poll HomeSeer on
pollingthreads=5

# minutes
pollinginterval=1

Preparing the InfluxDB database

The following command create the InfluxDB database

CREATE DATABASE hsinflux 
CREATE RETENTION POLICY hsinflux ON hsinflux DURATION 52w REPLICATION 1
USE hsinflux
CREATE USER INFLUXUSERNAME WITH PASSWORD 'INFLUXPASSWORD' WITH ALL PRIVILEGES;

Usage

java -jar target/hsinflux-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar 

A log file is generated to hsinflux.log and rotated every 30 days.