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Protocol and commands

The base protocol is based on documentation provided by OpenMiHome. See https://github.com/OpenMiHome/mihome-binary-protocol for details. This protocol defines how packets are sent to and from the devices are structured, but does not describe the commands that can be issued to the devices.

Currently the best way to figure out what commands a device supports is to run a packet capture with Wireshark between the Mi Home app and your device. The miio command line app can the be used together with JSON export from Wireshark to extract messages sent back and forth.

First make sure you have installed the miio app:

npm install -g miio

Creating a capture

Figure out your device token before starting

If you do not have the token of your device yet, run miio --discover to list devices on your network and their auto-extracted tokens. If the token is not found, follow the instructions to find device tokens. This needs to be done before you start your capture or the capture will be useless as resetting the device will generate a new token.

Running Wireshark and Mi Home

If you have knowledge about Wireshark you can run a capture however you like, but if you do not the easiest way is to use the method described in the readme of Homey app for Xiaomi Mi Robot Vaccum Cleaner to capture the traffic.

Analyzing the capture

Exporting the packets as JSON

The first step is to export the capture from Wireshark as a JSON file. You should be able to extract a file with all your traffic, but you might want to apply a filter in Wireshark to limit the size of the file.

A good starting filter is: udp.dstport == 54321 or udp.srcport == 54321

Running the miio app

To extract messages sent back and forth and dump to your terminal:

miio --token tokenAsHex --json-dump path/to/file.json

Figuring out the output

The output will be filled with output such as this:

-> 192.168.100.7 data={"id":10026,"method":"get_status","params":[]}
<- 192.168.100.8 data={ "result": [ { "msg_ver": 4, "msg_seq": 238, "state": 6, "battery": 100, "clean_time": 21, "clean_area": 240000, "error_code": 0, "map_present": 1, "in_cleaning": 0, "fan_power": 60, "dnd_enabled": 1 } ], "id": 10026 }

Lines starting with -> are messages sent to a device and <- are messages from a device. If the data is N/A it was either a handshake or the message could not be decoded due to an invalid token.

The method and params property in outgoing messages can be plugged into device.call(method, params) to perform the same call. Go through and see what the Mi Home app calls and how the replies look.

Testing commands

The miio command line app can be used to control devices and test things when you are implementing or debugging your device.

Use the --control flag to issue a command:

miio --control deviceIdOrAddressHere --method nameOfMethod --params paramsAsJSON

For example to get a property from the device:

miio --control deviceIdOrAddressHere --method get_prop --params '["temperature","use_time"]'