lifx_exporter

Expose metrics about your light bulbs because why not. Largely written A) because metrics, B) because I wanted to get to know the aiolifx library. As such, don't expect perfect code quality.

Bulbs should be discovered by this exporter within a couple of minutes of them appearing on the network.

Requirements

Python >= 3.4, aiolifx, prometheus client_python, some LIFX bulbs that are discoverable.

This has only been tested on Linux, but I don't see why it wouldn't work elsewhere.

Usage

Run the script, optionally with a --port option (default is 8564). A unit file is provided for your convenience if you use systemd.

Dashboard

A Grafana dashboard is provided as bulb_grafana_dashboard.json. It looks a bit like this:

Very useful, I'm sure you'll agree.

Metrics

All metrics have the following labels:

• name: The label (LIFX terminology) applied to the bulb
• location: The overall location a bulb is in (i.e. "My Home" by default)
• group: The group a bulb has been assigned to
• type: What type of bulb it is, with the caveat that this is a useless number unless you have the same bulbs as me (A19)

The following metrics are exposed:

• lifx_bulb_on: Self explanatory, 1 = on, 0 = off
• lifx_bulb_hue: 16-bit integer representing the hue
• lifx_bulb_saturation: Unsigned 16-bit integer representing the saturation
• lifx_bulb_brightness: Unsigned 16-bit integer representing the brightness
• lifx_bulb_kelvin: Unsigned 16-bit integer representing the colour temperature in Kelvin, valid values are from 2500-9000.

Metric values will all be set to -1 if requests time out. This may or may not be desirable.