Fritz InfluxDB

"fritzinfluxdb" is a tool written in python to fetch data from a FritzBox router and writes it to InfluxDB. It is equal capable as fritzcollectd and directly writing to InfluxDB.

Data collected:

• connection related information (amount of data, throughput, daily up/download statistics)
• all log messages
• home automation (temperature, power consumption, heating settings)
• phone call list (incoming, outgoing, missed, blocked)
• system stats (cpu usage/temp, memory usage)
• WLAN information (num clients, status, channels)
• VPN/DynDNS information (active users, vpn hostname, DynDNS settings)

Both InfluxDB 1 and InfluxDB 2 are supported

IMPORTANT:

In order work properly you need to enable "permit access for applications" and "state data via UPnP"

Requirements

• python3.7 or newer
• influxdb (InfluxDB 1)
• influxdb_client (InfluxDB 2)
• fritzconnection
• pytz

It was tested using FritzOS 7.29. It should work on older versions but some values might be missing.

DSL and Cable Modem FritzBox versions are supported. During startup there are messages about disabled services. This is normal as there are values not available on certain models.

Environment

• Grafana >= 9.1.0

Setup

• here we assume we install in /opt

Configuration

After cloning the repo copy the config from the example to fritzinfluxdb.ini and edit the settings. All settings are described inside the file.

Environment variables

Config values can also be overwritten using environment variables.
schema: _ (all in capital letters)
example for InfluxDB token:
export INFLUXDB_TOKEN="abcedef"

Environment variables will overwrite options defined in config file.

Installation

• modify your configuration and test it

  ./fritzinfluxdb.py

Install as systemd service

Ubuntu

cp /opt/fritzinfluxdb/fritzinfluxdb.service /etc/systemd/system

RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma

sed -e 's/nogroup/nobody/g' /opt/fritzinfluxdb/fritzinfluxdb.service > /etc/systemd/system/fritzinfluxdb.service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start fritzinfluxdb
systemctl enable fritzinfluxdb

Docker

Run the application in a docker container. You can build it yourself or use the ones from docker hub.

Available here: bbricardo/fritzinfluxdb

• The application working directory is /app

To build it by yourself just run:

docker build -t bbricardo/fritzinfluxdb:latest .

To start the container just use:

docker run --rm -d -v /PATH/TO/fritzinfluxdb.ini:/app/fritzinfluxdb.ini --name fritzinfluxdb bbricardo/fritzinfluxdb:latest

You can alternatively use the provided docker-compose.yml:

docker-compose up -d

If you're running the influxdb in a docker on the same host you need to add --link to the run command.

Example:

• starting the influx container

  docker run --name=influxdb -d -p 8086:8086 influxdb

• set influxdb host in fritzinfluxdb.ini to influxdb
• run docker container

  docker run --link influxdb -d -v /PATH/TO/fritzinfluxdb.ini:/app/fritzinfluxdb.ini --name fritzinfluxdb fritzinfluxdb

Upgrading

• update your virtual env pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• use the updated config and add the credentials and addresses from your old config

InfluxDB Setup

To create an InfluxDB 1 database or InfluxDB 2 Bucket (incl. retention policy mapping) it is recommended to use admin credentials/token on the first run. DON'T use an admin token after initial setup has finished.

InfluxDB 1 example:

export INFLUXDB_USERNAME=admin
export INFLUXDB_PASSWORD=SuperSecret

InfluxDB 2 example:

export INFLUXDB_TOKEN=InfluxDBAdminToken

If running via docker this link describes how to set env vars on a docker run

For InfluxDB 2 it is highly recommended creating a specific write only token for the defined bucket.

Running the script

usage: fritzinfluxdb.py [-h] [-c fritzinfluxdb.ini [fritzinfluxdb.ini ...]] [-d] [-v]

fritzinfluxdb
Version: 1.2.2 (2024-07-13)
Project URL: https://github.com/bb-Ricardo/fritzinfluxdb

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c fritzinfluxdb.ini [fritzinfluxdb.ini ...], --config fritzinfluxdb.ini [fritzinfluxdb.ini ...]
                        points to the config file to read config data from which is not installed under the default path './fritzinfluxdb.ini'
  -d, --daemon          define if the script is run as a systemd daemon
  -v, --verbose         turn on verbose output to get debug logging. Defining '-vv' will also print out all http calls

Grafana

Dashboards to display the collected data are included under grafana. Due to some limitations of the InfluxDB 1.8 Flux language implementation the dashboards had to bes separated.

Influx data source configuration:

InfluxDB 1.8:

• the "Query Language" InfluxQL has to be selected
• DEPRECATED: these dashboards will not be developed/extended any further

InfluxDB >=2.2.0:

• the "Query Language" Flux has to be selected
• the bucket with the fritzbox data has to be set as default bucket (all dashboards use the default bucket)

Dashboards

There are following Dashboards included:

InfluxDB 1.8.X (deprecated):

• fritzbox_system_dashboard.json
• fritzbox_logs_dashboard.json
• fritzbox_call_log_dashboard.json

InfluxDB >=2.2.0:

• fritzbox_system_dashboard.json
• fritzbox_logs_dashboard.json
• fritzbox_call_log_dashboard.json
• fritzbox_home_automation_dashboard.json

This was heavily inspired by: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/713-fritz-box-router-status/

Configure more attributes

check here to find an overview of more attributes which probably could be added https://wiki.fhem.de/w/index.php?title=FRITZBOX

New services can be defined in fritzinfluxdb/classes/fritzbox/service_definitions

License

You can check out the full license here

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.