diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7a125d6..ca55ac0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *~
 *.pyc
-home-assistant-core
\ No newline at end of file
+home-assistant-core
+/.vs
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 09cd7fd..6568d8e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ be done trivially, I believe.
 In order to not duplicate logic, the script uses the InfluxDB component of
 Home Assistant directly.
 
-I've tested this on Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 3.7.
+Tested on 
+- Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 3.7.
+- Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS with Python 3.8.5
 
 Setup:
 1. `sudo apt install python3 python3.7-dev`
@@ -60,11 +62,17 @@ Setup:
 
 Dependency installation:
 1. `. .venv/bin/activate`
-2. `pip install -r home-assistant-core/requirements.txt`
-3. `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+2. `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+3. `pip install -r home-assistant-core/requirements.txt`
+
+For MySQL
+1. `sudo apt install libmysqlclient-dev`
+
+For MariaDB
+1. `sudo apt install libmariadbclient-dev`
 
 Run script:
-1. Copy your InfluxDB configuration from Home Assistant to influxdb.yaml.
+1. Use and edit the provided influxdb.yaml example OR copy your InfluxDB configuration from Home Assistant to influxdb.yaml.
    This should be the file that you include via `influxdb: !include influx.yaml`
    in your installation (i.e. it does not start with `influxdb:\n`!).
    It must not include any !secret statements but rather the token (for v2)
diff --git a/homeassistant2influxdb.py b/homeassistant2influxdb.py
index 93b574a..f330835 100755
--- a/homeassistant2influxdb.py
+++ b/homeassistant2influxdb.py
@@ -72,9 +72,12 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('--host', '-s',
                         dest='host', action='store', required=True,
                         help='MySQL/MariaDB host')
+    parser.add_argument('--port', '-o',
+                        dest='port', action='store', required=True,
+                        help='MySQL/MariaDB host')
     parser.add_argument('--database', '-d',
-                        dest='database', action='store', required=True,
-                        help='MySQL/MariaDB database')
+                        dest='database', action='store', required=false, type=int, default=3306,
+                        help='MySQL/MariaDB port. MySQL 3306 (default), MariaDB 3307')
     parser.add_argument('--count', '-c',
                         dest='row_count', action='store', required=False, type=int, default=0,
                         help='If 0 (default), determine upper bound of number of rows by querying database, '
@@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ def main():
     converter = _generate_event_to_json(influx_config)
 
     # connect to MySQL/MariaDB database
-    connection = mysql_connect(host=args.host, user=args.user, password=args.password, database=args.database, cursorclass=cursors.SSCursor, charset="utf8")
+    connection = mysql_connect(host=args.host, port=args.port, user=args.user, password=args.password, database=args.database, cursorclass=cursors.SSCursor, charset="utf8")
     cursor = connection.cursor()
 
     # untested: connect to SQLite file instead (you need to get rid of the first three `add_argument` calls above)
diff --git a/influxdb.yaml b/influxdb.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aff0d5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/influxdb.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# This is your influx configuration from home assistant. Note the two indents before each line!
+  host: localhost
+  port: 8086
+  database: home_assistant
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