fireboard2mqtt

A simple service to bring your Fireboard wireless thermometer into home assistant via mqtt auto discovery.

This is also available as a Home Assistant addon here.

Requirements

• Rust stable (>= 1.76.0) (see https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)

Notes:

Due to the 200 req/hr request limit on the fireboard api, this only updates temperatures every 20 seconds if the fireboard drive is disabled, or every 40 seconds if drive is enabled (in the config).

Usage

Running as a home-assistant addon

Click the following to add this the repo this addon is a part of to your home assistant instance:

Then install the addon.

Running as a standalone service

1. Clone the repository
2. Create an .env file in the root directory of the project (see config section of this file)
3. Run cargo run --release

Configuration

Home Assistant Addon

Simply enter your fireboard account email address and password to the addon config screen.

Docker Standalone

If you are running Home Assistant core only (without addon support), you can run this as a simple standalone docker container.

To do so, create an .env file with the config from below in it, and run the following command:

docker run --env-file=.env -t gordlea/fireboard2mqtt

Bare Metal Standalone or Development

Configuration is done via environmental variables.

I recommend you install direnv to help you manager your env vars.

The following env vars are available:

# sets log level
# can be error | warn | info | debug | trace
# see https://docs.rs/env_logger/latest/env_logger/ for detailed docs
RUST_LOG="fireboard2mqtt=info"

# (required) the email associated with your fireboard account
FB2MQTT_FIREBOARDACCOUNT_EMAIL=<account email>

# (required) the password associated with your fireboard account
FB2MQTT_FIREBOARDACCOUNT_PASSWORD=<password>

# (optional, default=false) if you own a fireboard drive you should set this to true
FB2MQTT_FIREBOARD_ENABLE_DRIVE=<true|false>

# (optional, default=mqtt://localhost:1883) the url of the mqtt broker to connect to
FB2MQTT_MQTT_URL=<mqtturl>

# (optional, default="") the mqtt broker username, if it is running as a home 
# assistant addon, use your home assistant username
FB2MQTT_MQTT_USERNAME=<username>

# (optional, default="") the mqtt broker password, if it is running as a home 
# assistant addon, use your home assistant password
FB2MQTT_MQTT_PASSWORD=<password>

# (optional, default=homeassistant) this probably shouldn't be changed
FB2MQTT_DISCOVERY_PREFIX=homeassistant

# (optional, default=fireboard2mqtt) this probably shouldn't be changed
FB2MQTT_MQTT_BASE_TOPIC=fireboard2mqtt

# (optional, default=fireboard2mqtt) the mqtt clientId to use when connecting to the
# mqtt broker 
FB2MQTT_MQTT_CLIENTID=fireboard2mqtt

Create an .env file configured using the above env vars and run direnv allow to enable them.