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SwitchBot MQTT client
MQTT client controlling SwitchBot button automators and curtain motors
Compatible with Home Assistant's MQTT Switch and MQTT Cover platform.
Setup
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade switchbot-mqtt
Usage
$ switchbot-mqtt --mqtt-host HOSTNAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS
Use sudo hcitool lescan
or select device settings > 3 dots on top right in
SwitchBot app
to determine your SwitchBot's mac address.
Button Automator
Send ON or OFF to topic homeassistant/switch/switchbot/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/set.
$ mosquitto_pub -h MQTT_BROKER -t homeassistant/switch/switchbot/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/set -m ON
The command-line option --fetch-device-info enables battery level reports on topic
homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/MAC_ADDRESS/battery-percentage after every command.
Curtain Motor
Send OPEN, CLOSE, or STOP to topic homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/set.
$ mosquitto_pub -h MQTT_BROKER -t homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/set -m CLOSE
The command-line option --fetch-device-info enables position reports on topic
homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/MAC_ADDRESS/position after STOP commands
and battery level reports on topic homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/MAC_ADDRESS/battery-percentage
after every command.
Device Passwords
In case some of your Switchbot devices are password-protected,
create a JSON file mapping MAC addresses to passwords
and provide its path via the --device-password-file option:
{
"11:22:33:44:55:66": "password",
"aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff": "secret",
"00:00:00:0f:f1:ce": "random string"
}
$ switchbot-mqtt --device-password-file /some/where/switchbot-passwords.json …
MQTT Authentication
switchbot-mqtt --mqtt-username me --mqtt-password secret …
# or
switchbot-mqtt --mqtt-username me --mqtt-password-file /var/lib/secrets/mqtt/password …
⚠️ --mqtt-password leaks the password to other users on the same machine,
if /proc is mounted with hidepid=0 (default).
Home Assistant 🏡
Rationale
Why not use the official SwitchBot integration?
I prefer not to share the host's network stack with home assistant (more complicated network setup and additional netfilter rules required for isolation).
Sadly, docker run --network host even requires --userns host:
docker: Error response from daemon: cannot share the host's network namespace when user namespaces are enabled.
The docker image built from this repository works around this limitation by explicitly running as an unprivileged user.
The official home assistant image
runs as root.
This imposes an unnecessary security risk, especially when disabling user namespace remapping
(--userns host).
See https://github.com/fphammerle/docker-home-assistant for an alternative.
Setup
# https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/mqtt/broker/#configuration-variables
mqtt:
broker: BROKER_HOSTNAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS
# credentials, additional options…
# https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/switch.mqtt/#configuration-variables
switch:
- platform: mqtt
name: switchbot_button
command_topic: homeassistant/switch/switchbot/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/set
state_topic: homeassistant/switch/switchbot/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff/state
# http://materialdesignicons.com/
icon: mdi:light-switch
cover:
- platform: mqtt
name: switchbot_curtains
command_topic: homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/11:22:33:44:55:66/set
state_topic: homeassistant/cover/switchbot-curtain/11:22:33:44:55:66/state
Docker 🐳
Pre-built docker images are available at https://hub.docker.com/r/fphammerle/switchbot-mqtt/tags
Annotation of signed tags docker/* contains docker image digests: https://github.com/fphammerle/switchbot-mqtt/tags
$ docker build -t switchbot-mqtt .
$ docker run --name spelunca_switchbot \
--userns host --network host \
switchbot-mqtt:latest \
switchbot-mqtt --mqtt-host HOSTNAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS
Alternatively, you can use docker-compose:
version: '3.8'
services:
switchbot-mqtt:
image: switchbot-mqtt
container_name: switchbot-mqtt
network_mode: host
userns_mode: host
environment:
- MQTT_HOST=localhost
- MQTT_PORT=1883
#- MQTT_USERNAME=username
#- MQTT_PASSWORD=password
restart: unless-stopped