miflorad

This project aims to produce tools written in Go for interfacing with Xiaomi Flora sensors for IoT use cases.

Misc

If the Intel Wireless Bluetooth 8265 chip gets stuck (source):

# pip install pyusb
sudo python utils/reset.py

The output of gatttool listing all characteristics of a Xiaomi Flora sensor (firmware version 2.7.0):

$ gatttool -b C4:7C:8D:xx:xx:xx --characteristics
handle = 0x0002, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0003, uuid = 00002a00-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0004, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0005, uuid = 00002a01-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0006, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x0007, uuid = 00002a02-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0008, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0009, uuid = 00002a04-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x000d, char properties = 0x22, char value handle = 0x000e, uuid = 00002a05-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0011, char properties = 0x1a, char value handle = 0x0012, uuid = 00000001-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0014, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0015, uuid = 00000002-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0016, char properties = 0x12, char value handle = 0x0017, uuid = 00000004-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0018, char properties = 0x08, char value handle = 0x0019, uuid = 00000007-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x001a, char properties = 0x08, char value handle = 0x001b, uuid = 00000010-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x001c, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x001d, uuid = 00000013-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x001e, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x001f, uuid = 00000014-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0020, char properties = 0x10, char value handle = 0x0021, uuid = 00001001-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0024, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x0025, uuid = 8082caa8-41a6-4021-91c6-56f9b954cc34
handle = 0x0026, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x0027, uuid = 724249f0-5ec3-4b5f-8804-42345af08651
handle = 0x0028, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0029, uuid = 6c53db25-47a1-45fe-a022-7c92fb334fd4
handle = 0x002a, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x002b, uuid = 9d84b9a3-000c-49d8-9183-855b673fda31
handle = 0x002c, char properties = 0x0e, char value handle = 0x002d, uuid = 457871e8-d516-4ca1-9116-57d0b17b9cb2
handle = 0x002e, char properties = 0x12, char value handle = 0x002f, uuid = 5f78df94-798c-46f5-990a-b3eb6a065c88
handle = 0x0032, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x0033, uuid = 00001a00-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0034, char properties = 0x1a, char value handle = 0x0035, uuid = 00001a01-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0037, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0038, uuid = 00001a02-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x003b, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x003c, uuid = 00001a11-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x003d, char properties = 0x1a, char value handle = 0x003e, uuid = 00001a10-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0040, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0041, uuid = 00001a12-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

Related Work

• https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:xiaomi-flora (very nice teardown)
• https://github.com/open-homeautomation/miflora (python library)

Doing a release

Install the github-release binary helper somewhere into your path as github-release.

You also need a personal access token for your Github account.

The below will create a Github release of miflorad based on your current git working copy and create a matching git tag:

export GITHUB_RELEASE_ACCESS_TOKEN=my-personal-access-token
MIFLORAD_VERSION=x.y.z make release