Community Hass.io Add-ons: InfluxDB

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.

About

InfluxDB is an open source time series database optimized for high-write-volume. It's useful for recording metrics, sensor data, events, and performing analytics. It exposes an HTTP API for client interaction and if often used in combination with Grafana to visualize the data.

This add-on comes with Chronograf & Kapacitor pre-installed as well. Which gives you a nice InfluxDB admin interface for managing your users, databases, data retention settings, and lets you peek inside the database using the Data Explorer.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.

1. Add our Hass.io add-ons repository to your Hass.io instance.
2. Install the "InfluxDB" add-on.
3. Start the "InfluxDB" add-on.
4. Check the logs of the "InfluxDB" to see if everything went well.
5. Click the "OPEN WEB UI" button!

NOTE: Do not add this repository to Hass.io, please use: https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository.

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

{
    "log_level": "info",
    "auth": true,
    "reporting": true,
    "ssl": true,
    "certfile": "fullchain.pem",
    "keyfile": "privkey.pem"
}

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and past it! Create your own!

Option: log_level

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

• trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
• debug: Shows detailed debug information.
• info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
• warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
• error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
• fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

Option: auth

Enable or disable InfluxDB user authentication.

Note: Turning this off is NOT recommended!

Option: reporting

This option allows you to disable the reporting of usage data to InfluxData.

Note: No data from user databases is ever transmitted!

Option: ssl

Enables/Disables SSL (HTTPS) on the web interface. Set it true to enable it, false otherwise.

Note: This does NOT activate SSL for InfluxDB, just the web interface

Option: certfile

The certificate file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default for Hass.io

Option: keyfile

The private key file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default for Hass.io

Option: leave_front_door_open

Adding this option to the add-on configuration allows you to disable authentication on the Web Terminal by setting it to true and leaving the username and password empty.

Note: We STRONGLY suggest, not to use this, even if this add-on is only exposed to your internal network. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Integrating into Home Assistant

The influxdb component of Home Assistant makes it possible to transfer all state changes to an InfluxDB database.

You need to do the following steps in order to get this working:

• Click on "OPEN WEB UI" to open the admin web-interface provided by this add-on.
• On the left menu click on the "InfluxDB Admin".
• Create a database for storing Home Assistant's data in, e.g., homeassistant.
• Goto the users tab and create a user for Home Assistant, e.g., homeassistant.

Now we've got this in place, add the following snippet to your Home Assistant configuration.yaml file.

influxdb:
  host: a0d7b954-influxdb
  port: 8086
  database: homeassistant
  username: homeassistant
  password: <yourpassword>
  max_retries: 3
  default_measurement: state

Restart Home Assistant.

You should now see the data flowing into InfluxDB by visiting the web-interface and using the Data Explorer.

Known issues and limitations

• While the Chronograph interface supports SSL, currently, the add-on does not support having SSL on InfluxDB. This limitation is caused by Chronograf and we are still looking into a proper solution for this.

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality. The format of the log is based on Keep a Changelog.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

• The Community Hass.io Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
• The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• The Home Assistant Community Forum.
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

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License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Franck Nijhof

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