How to read in data from the Apple watch, iCloud device trackers & iCloud calendars to Home Assistant, export data to InfluxDB & visualize it in Grafana

Last Updated on August 9, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Smartlive-net.de showed us previously

how to read in data from an Apple watch to Home Assistant, export it to InfluxDB & visualize it in Grafana:

but there are also new instructions available for instance

Integrate Apple iCloud calendar into Home Assistant

Home Assistant iCloud Device Tracker Integration

Home Assistant is the second most active Python application. There are more and more integrations for Home Assistant. If there are Home Assistant integrations available for devices, it is easy to export sensor data to InfluxDB and viszalize it in Grafana – no coding required. But from there we can read and write data with for instance the Python client for InfluxDB and to our own data analysis.