How To Make a Home Assistant Bluetooth Proxy | EASY NO Soldering
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00:00 Intro
01:14 Which ESP32?
04:28 Install Bluetooth Proxy
07:55 Add to Home Assistant
10:00 Closing - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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I’ve looked for months to bring this together. Your video has delivered, with the detail of the boot button solving the last little frustration.
Now have the LD2410 communicating with Home Assistant.
Thanks very much, you’ve helped me achieve what I’ve been seeking.
I did this a while back to pickup those small temperature sensors, its worked flawlessly since.
this reminds me to find other sensors that'll work with it, such as motion/presence
Wow - that is an really easy installation process 🥳 I am impressed and exited what comes next. The Live with Paulus was great because of so many details regarding the roadmap of BT support in HA 🤩
Leave it to me to still drag it out in a "quick" video..hahah...
I knew I forgot something...added the link to that stream in the description for folks instead of making them dig for it.
Thanks Travis for all this great info. Did a brand new install and thing got pulled in to home assistant after adding your esp32-ble-tracker script (minute 7:23). Tuffest part is trying to flash the xiaomi to send BThome signal, after that everything worked great. Really love your explanations and video subjects.
Thank you! Glad it helps!
Thanks again Travis. I have an InkBird BT Thermometer in my Hot Tub, it says the range is 100ft, but I could not pick it up with the Inkbird App at anything greater than 30ft. Even after setting up the BT Proxy (NodeMCU), I had to locate it pretty close to the InkBird. I guess I will have to sprinkle some more around my property. Nice video.
Probably 100ft with a perfect clean spectrum but it competes with wifi a bit. No harm in adding more. I have 3 or 4 around.
Neat , I currently use OpenMqttgateway on an esp as a bridge, this looks like it will be much easier to configure, if all the device support is there.
Nice! Thanks Travis.
Thanks for this! I had got it working but it wasn’t picking up BLE devices. None of the other tutorials gave the ble_tracker info. Lifesaver!
Nice! I have all the various board yaml files linked here too for copy and paste digiblur.com/wiki/ha/bluetooth-compatible-devices
@@digiblurDIY Awesome! And do you use the HACS, the inbuilt HA BLE discovery module, or something else?
All using the built in HA BLE stuff. It's pretty slick.
@@digiblurDIY Until I saw your video I thought it was me, so I installed the one from HACS, so now I'm not sure if I should walk it back. Look for me on your discord :)
Bunch of cool and stuff certified people there.
Cool been looking for a guide, then you made one 😄😀
You'll love how damn simple they made it.
@@digiblurDIY yes it's very cool.
Soild. glad you made a video out of it.
yup..a video just like the New Kids on the Block would do.
I used esp32 with tasmota with the sensors binary (and ble enabled). Boom. Whoop!
Danke!
Helpful vid. I hadn't paid a lot of attention to bluetooth devices but this makes things look a bit more manageable. So, you don't have to pair the devices - all of that is automatic?
Yup...that was pretty much in realtime that I showed them popping in, all depends on their advertising rates but it is usually no longer than a minute. These are passive devices, the active stuff is coming later with the 2 way comms.
Great video, thanks for making it easy. I have a couple Home Depot window blinds that are controlled via BT. Is there a way to integrate them into Home Assistant with this?
There would have to be integration created for that on the HA side. More or less someone to reverse engineer the bluetooth data control part.
Nice Video many thanks for the info question I guessing you can do BT phone presence detection with this setup so the question I have. Is how many BT proxy device like the ESP32-POE-ISO can you have in home assistance so you know were or when someone is each room ? And again many thanks
I know someone asked about this on the stream but IIRC more would have to be done on the room presence stuff. We don't always carry phones around with us so I never looked into it myself.
Thanks for another great video. Question, are you connecting the ESP32 board to your Pi or to a laptop?
No Pi here. To put the initial software on, connect it to the computer you are using Chrome on.
Thanks for this Travis. I did not get form live stream or this video can you use this with multiple esp32 boards as mesh? I want to have failover devices.
Yep. That was a big question I had on the mind and made sure to ask along with the deduplication of packets.
That looks promising. So at the moment I have the Bluetooth integration and the Passive BLE monitor to pull in the devices into HA. Are you saying with the Bluetooth proxy I should be able to get rid of the Passive BLE monitor integration?
This is for the Bluetooth support they added in the last month or two.
Thanks for all that you do! I'm using the Olimex ESP32-POE-ISO and cannot get the power over ethernet. It does pick up my Bluetooth devices but I need to power it via the micro USB. ANy thoughts?
I'd check that it is working with another POE compliant device. You might have a bad device if so.
I've been running Home Assistant via HassIO - built in rasp-pi bluetooth just started picking things up by itself without and of the additional hardware. I can see how it would be super helpful if your rasp-pi was remote though.
Very much so as the range on that is limited and some could have them stuck in a metal cabinet as well. Not to mention I don't have bluetooth on my HA at all as many others do not have this adapter either.
So, is this essentially a Bluetooth gateway that uses the esp’s WiFi to bring into HA? Sounds great for the extra needed range I need for my InkBird grill thermometer where the pi’s Bluetooth doesn’t quite cut it.
Yep...you guessed it and you can implement multiple around the house.
One thing to remember if you add a Bluetooth proxy to an existing device; you may have to rebuild the firmware with the esp-idf framework instead of Arduino to make sure you can fit everything in the onboard memory. If you do, you will have to manually reflash the device, as there are differences that an OTA upgrade won't be able to fix.
I saw that new change I think in December it was?
@@digiblurDIY It seems that you're right; it seems to have been part of the 2022.12.0 release of ESPHome.
Great thanks- Does this replace a Blerry setup?
No, similar goals but there are differences in how it works and what devices are supported.
Hi there , Thanks for your great videos, Just a question, Is this Bluetooth Proxy are supporting Tuya devices? (I need something like this for fingerBot, if no, any other solution?)
Thanks again
I don't think Tuya bluetooth is supported at this time.
Just wow 👌 👏
I have been searching for a way to connect more than one bluetooth speaker to a raspberry pi running on bullseye and play music on these connected Bluetooth speakers.
Could you please do a tutorial on how to do this !!! 🙏
Thanks! Probably more than what you'll see this project doing given the data involved but you never know what they come up with to support.
There is a feature in the upcoming Bluetooth standard to sync multiple Bluetooth speakers. To be clear it's the upcoming Bluetooth standard not a HomeAssistant feature and it won't be compatible with current devices. Till then you may be out of luck.
Not over bluetooth, but devices like AudioPro and other LinkPlay based devices allow streaming and synchronizing music over the network, with HA integration
i would love to know how to add extra BLE devices , since Australia has a fair few smart home stuff that is BLE (and alot of the time its cheap).
Plus.. why cant get finally get decent BLE tracking.. Something like esppresense mixed with esphome ble proxy..
I would dig into the other device BLE integrations to see how those were added as the base groundwork is here now.
Lots of issues with BLE tracking so I get it. Rolling MAC IDs, not carrying the device with you, etc.
Hi,
thanks for the great video. I still have a question regarding the connectivity. I'm using 4 Govee h5075 and the ones connecting over the esp proxys are loosing connection all the time.
I'm using 2 Proxys with generic esp32 without an ethernet port.
I can't seem to find the problem. Is it a connection issue because of the shared wlan/bt antenna, or has it cause by something else. I saw a tutorial about soldering an antenna to esp32 board which amplifies the connection.
I would probably just add more proxies as needed. Also upgrade to the latest HA. The current Esphome December beta has a lot of great fixes as well. They do make proxies with antennas. www.tubeszb.com/product/BT/53
www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/
Cases: any concerns about overheating with these things? Wondering about those ventilation slots on the "brittle" case you printed.
I have had one running in my cabinet area for a few days in the thicker case without issue.
Thanks for the nice video! My "weird idea" is to have a bluetooth button (or rather a remote with several buttons) integrated into Home Assistant. I'd be interested for example in using it at my office desk to quickly pause the music on my smart speakers (already integrated into home assistant) when someone calls me, or for example to change the volume or play the next track. Only issue is that I haven't found out how to accomplish this yet :-P any advice is most welcome.
I know you can attach buttons to the GPIO pins on the little Xiaomi sensors but not sure if that is supported in the HA side though. Might be more suited for something in the Zigbee world or really if you have it mains powered just do a simple button on an ESP chip if you have a 3D printer.
If you have the companion app installed you can use the relevant sensor as a trigger for an automation to pause the music and restart it when the call ends.
@@martynpriest7118 great idea. In fact I'm doing that already. Problem is that it doesn't work for the softphone on my corporate laptop
Nice video, thanks. A question though, is there a way to utilize this with custom_components? To explain further, some custom integrations require connecting to Bluetooth devices manually using bluetoothctl or hcitiool. This means essentially that the main adapter will be used instead of the proxy which renders it useless.
I have used this with the Ember Mug integration and a couple others before they got folded into HA itself without issue.
Thanks for the video. What ESP device would be capable of providing both a Bluetooth proxy for home assistant via wifi and also an mmWave presence detector on the same board? Are there any off the shelf cased sensors that do this currently?
I would probably split those with most of the mmwave sensors due to how much traffic the esp has to process on both the BT Proxy side and mmwave side. BT proxy on something simple like a smart switch or plug would be a better option.
@@digiblurDIY thanks for the advice.
Thanks for the video, how many bluetooth proxy will home asssitant supported?
I haven't seen a limit for that yet. I have 5 or 6 going without issue.
@@digiblurDIY Thank you, must be my LD2410 screw up...
Will this be the same same as Blerry. We can run a few of these and it will just start finding devices great video
Not really the same as HA does the processing of things so this would be coupled to HA and no MQTT usage.
Travis, thank you for great explanation in this and other tutorials . I can't make this proxy to pick up signal from LD2410B. Is it even compatible with bluetooth proxy? Thank you in advanced
It is but that sensor has been super flakey for me and others via bluetooth. Best to use it via the UART lines and an ESP chip.
@@digiblurDIY thank you for your quick response. Will try.
This is what I have been waiting for... If I don't have any other ESP sensors and just want to use this instead of USB Bluetooth so home assistant can control Bluetooth LEDs, would I also have to set up esphome container and start there first?
It really doesn't need the Esphome container if you want to use their pre-built installs from the BT proxy page.
will this work with homekit devices that use bluetooth? I have a door lock that is JUST barely inside the range of my bluetooth dongle and I can low response times and connectivity issues from it through HA. Being able to put an extender right next to it would be massively useful!
Not yet, this is for passive devices. That's coming in phase 2.
@@digiblurDIY well I guess I'll get it all set up and then exercise my least favorite tech guy ability: patience.
Just set one of these up myself, it was super simple. Only question I have is how do I tell which proxy if any is being used by a particular device? I have a bluetooth usb on my nuc that is a bit spotty for my switchbot and want to verify if it is connected direct or via the proxy now.
At this time switchbot needs active connections so BT proxy isn't being used on those.
@@digiblurDIY ah that makes sense, thanks!
nice if i cut control my robot mower whit wifi via an ESP32 proxi Bluetooth device
Does this support BLE lights. I thought I read under supported device it supports ILC devices?
Currently they stated only passive devices right now.
Tried with an NSPanel, but seemed to crash the device sadly. Worth a shot :D
The NotSafe Panel might be better at not being a proxy. I'd stick to dual use on something simple like a relay.
@@digiblurDIY I’ve spent more than enough time trying to get it right in Nextion/ Yaml I suppose I don’t need that to mess it up hah. Looks pretty sweet with zigbee wind/temp sensors etc displayed on it though
Can we use the Shelly plus 1 and it's native firmware to use them as a proxy? Will the Shelly plus one work with room assistant?
Yes, as of the latest HA release I saw the notes stating you could use the stock shelly plus firmware as a proxy. I haven't tried it myself as I don't have any left on stock.
Never used room assistant myself.
so thinking out load if you had the original NS panel round your house with esphome they could also be proxies
Yes. In theory they could as long as the cpu doesn't max out on them.
@@digiblurDIY I've just tried it with the one I had in a draw and it pulled in my Xiaomi temp sensors without effort
I already have a bunch of the POE boards running sensors via tasmota. Anyone know if they can do double duty as a BT proxy?
Yup. Fire it up!
Can the ESP32 board support both the Proxy and also a sensor at the same time ???
Yep. Sure can!
Digiblur now looks like Adam Franklin from the band Swervedriver.
He's definitely much cooler than I for sure.
Hello. I am Vietnamese. Please tell me why when I enter the IP address (taken from the router and set it as static) in the "Host" field and then send it it says "Failed to connect to the ESP. Please make sure that your YAML file contains the 'api:' line". Therefore, the ESP32 cannot be included in the integration site. Help me. Thank you!
Do you have api: set? That's all I do when adding one manually is put the IP in and that's it. Try to make sure you don't have the API key messing you up, remove the encryption if the device isn't exposed on a unsafe network.
So i can just add the code from above to the yaml of an existing esp32 device (currently running as an LED controller with neopixel) and it can double up as a BT proxy? So i can pick up my Mi Flora devices with the existing esp32s, and dont have to configure additional ones to just run BT Proxy?
I theory yes if the CPU isn't maxed out by being dual role with other stuff.
@@digiblurDIY awesome. I have no idea how much of the CPU the LED controller takes, but im going to test this out. Ive got 9 mi floras i need to set up, so i can wrap that into the LED project im working on and see how it works! thanks for the video, great info!
do bluetooth proxies need to be in bluetooth range of the home assistant hardware, or is it enough for them to be on the same wifi network?
No. They just need to be in range of the proxy as that is the whole point of things.
What if I don't want to erase the ESP32 and keep the existing Arduino code loaded onto it?
And what if you don't use Wi-Fi but only Ethernet connected ESP32's?
You can't have both on it. You can do other things in Esphome though. Ethernet ESP32s are perfect! More time to Bluetooth scanning.
I just built 3 bluetooth proxy devices based on the Mini ESP32 ESP-WROOM-32. They all work throughout the house, as I tested them with a Switchbot thermometer. My purpose in all of this was to utilize a Level bolt lock in my front & back doors. I received one today and got it working in HA, but it won't work beyond about 15' of my bluetooth dongle. This tells me that the lock is not working through the proxy. Any idea why this would be so?
That is the one thing I have seen asked many times. Attribute to show where the last update came from.
@@digiblurDIY I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate any?
@@joej8361 basically something to show where the device connected. Proxy name etc.
i have 4 Switchbot Hygrometer Thermometer however when connected most of the time it says unavailable or if its detected it says Retrying setup: Switchbot hygrometer with mac add is not ready
That might be one on the list for active connections in phase 2
Does the Xiaomi Mi Scale 2 work with this bluetooth proxy? I added the proxy and then stepped on the scale and I don't see it show up as another device. Thanks!
It might not be supported until later on the active connections as they stated. Phase 1 was passive connections.
Hello, could you please explain how to update the Blue Tooth Proxy Board over the air?
Do you have it adopted in esphome?
@@digiblurDIY I have originally installed my two boards through ESP home web. This time I have loaded the boards again but from HA ESP Home and it works. I have two BT Proxy in the house but it looks like all sensors are connected to the one which is much further than the one just next to the sensor? Do you know by any chance why is that?
If I add more than one Bluetooth proxy, will HA sort out getting multiple BLE advertisements without manual intervention?
Also, will this coexist with Blerry over Tasmota MQTT gateways or should I use only one or the other?
Yes, it is designed for multiple.
Yes. It will coexist but could create duplicates if you have them configured in both.
@@digiblurDIY I've configured devices in Blerry but I thought there was no device configuration step with Bluetooth proxies and that all BLE devices would be autodiscovered, hence the question about coexistence.
Long term, I would like to switch BLE sensors over to proxies but there will be a transitional period.
Don't hit configure on them.
@@digiblurDIY That was so simple that I didn't think of it!
@@digiblurDIY I've ordered some Switchbot Plug Mini's to install Tasmota/Blerry and replace my ESP32 dev kits which are my current gateways. Can I reprogram them from Tasmota to ESPhome per this video or would I have to somehow take them back to factory state first?
How do I know if the ESP32 is actually picking up BT devices and not the onboard Bluetooth on my Raspberry Pi? Tried checking the logs in ESPHome and I can't really find anything that would help me confirm if these are working as intended.
Disable the one on the Pi?
I have an old Raspberry Pi Zero W that is doing nothing. Is there a way to get it to do this job?
Not that I am aware of.
Hi, can we OTA update the proxies or do we need to manually update them? The OTA update for my setup (after following the instructions) fails. Thanks.
I update mine OTA just like I do any other Esphome device on the dashboard.
@@digiblurDIYwould it be possible to see the yaml code you have for a device? I'm assuming that if there was an issue it would be based on the yaml code?
Really just adding the ble and bt proxy blocks to whatever base code you have. digiblur.com/wiki/ha/esphome-bluetooth-proxy-esp32
Hi again Travis. Are there any ESP32 bluetooth boards available that are bluetooth only? I don't want my HAOS connecting to my network by wifi as well as wired internet. That will cause network issues.
No you need to use ethernet or wifi on them. No repeaters that I know.
@@digiblurDIY sure that’s the bit I don’t understand. Why do the boards have to be connected to the internet (once configured) just to run Bluetooth (given its a unique Bluetooth to Bluetooth protocol? I guess what I’m asking is do you know a simple USB Bluetooth dongle (without wifi) which “just works” (there’s that phrase again!) plugging into that Dell micro PC/ HAOS build you did like 6 months ago. I’ve followed that build and it’s been awesome rock solid for months now. I don’t need ESP home and all that mesh Bluetooth stuff - just a stable signal in my garage for a Shelly Plus relay to control my garage door. You rock mate. W.
None of this connects to the internet. It is using the local network as backhaul to extend your Bluetooth range. You can use USB based dongle if your Bluetooth device is close enough. Something like this amzn.to/3Bp2e4J
And glad to hear things have been solid! Nice work!
Excuse me if this has already been asked many times, but could you tell me what multi colored LED displays you have there behind you?
The Time Circuits?
@@digiblurDIY They look like digital clocks. Where did you get them?
They are from the movie Back to the Future. circuitsetup.us/product-category/time-circuits/?v=7516fd43adaa
Of course! Thank you.
I have added
esp32_ble_tracker:
scan_parameters:
active: true
bluetooth_proxy:
but no new entities appeared for the device after recompiling and reuploading firmware
Do the logs show the proxy stared? Also API is required for this.
Ble_Proxy: Hi Where and how can i select bthome for the ATC_Themometer?. Ble_ESP_Gateway: Can i select multiple sensors in one normal ble proxy /esphome ( 2 atc sensor on one gateway?
The BT home type is set in the ATC flasher/config webpage.
Yes. Install multiple BT Proxies around the home.
Does it make sense to reflash a nodemcu device that I connected to HA using Tasmota/ blerry that I installed following your earlier TH-cam video?
Depends on your use case really as not all devices are supported the same on both platforms
@@digiblurDIY Using it for the Bluetooth sensor. I thought maybe changing it give another gives me another proxy? I kind of hate changing stuff that has worked for a long time.
@@billschatzow9919 I reflashed one of my nodemcu devices and it works though there seems to a bug somewhere because of which the sensor shows as unavailable some of the time whereas Blerry seems to extend the last reported value if it misses an advertisement
Adding bluetooth proxy does take up more memory from your ESP32. I ran into a memory problem with ESP32's with a display.
Good to know. Is there any way to get both working? Fewer fonts or something?..
What sort of error are you getting? I have a a standard TTGO TDisplay and have:
Flash: [======== ] 84.5% (used 1551006 bytes from 1835008 bytes)
and yet the module enters some sort of boot loop.
Is there a way to know if it's a memory issue or some other incompatibility?
Now we need a good way to do presence on the same board.
Seems simple enough with a couple pins to connect up whatever sensors. I'd keep it pretty light though as bluetooth traffic can be quite a bit in some areas for the processor to dig through so adding like PWM, serial comms, etc might not be a good idea. I don't know if ESPHome has a cpu average load sensor?
@@digiblurDIY I meant BT presence. I think we need to run something in HA to interpret the BT data.
I haven't embedded my BLE token just yet myself.
@@digiblurDIY It's painless until you have to change the battery. 😂
Between my phone and a few other factors BT works pretty well for me.
I can't find my phone half the time. Leave it outside. Stuck in the couch. Etc. I use the Google.. Where's my phone way too much.
Does this work with ESP8266 also? It got bluetooth and wifi, so I think it might.
No. Esp32 is needed.
I remember couple months ago you said to use Tasmota for flashing ESP32 because of some filesystem issue is this still valid ?
I don't recall any esp32 issues.
@@digiblurDIY when flashing with esphome this video th-cam.com/video/oJmDRkKnzFc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=digiblurDIY
This is a little different use case. Blerry is on the ESP processing packets. The proxy for ESPHome is just sending the packets to HA to process.
@@digiblurDIY if you were to setup now which way would you choose ?
The proxy is going to be the easiest to setup if you use HA.
what happens with setting up xiaomi scales where the bluetooth has to be specified in its setting eg hci0
That is probably the configuration coming in phase 2 next.
@@digiblurDIY feels very half-assed as usual, makes a change from them deprecating something though
They do talk about it here www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/09/07/release-20229/#bluetooth-everywhere
Thanks Travis for your nice work.
I’m using Bluetooth proxy to extend coverage of Bluetooth devices (Alarm Clock Qingping (CGD1), Xiaomi Smart Kettle (YM-K1501) and Xiaomi Temperature/Humidity Sensor (LYWSDCGQ)).
For me most important to use the proxy for Xiaomi MiFlora (Plant monitor - HHCCJCY01. But so far it is only possible through Bluetooth integration (connected to Raspberry Pi 4 B+ directly).
Is it possible to use MiFlora with the proxy?
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I have heard people using those through the proxy. I don't have any myself though to say for sure.
Does this work with a Shelly Plus?
Yep! I flashed one with it and enabled the Shelly switches as well.
@@digiblurDIY How did you accomplish that? I`m ending up with a boot loop with this config:
esp32:
board: esp32dev
framework:
type: esp-idf
version: latest
sdkconfig_options:
CONFIG_FREERTOS_UNICORE: y
esp32_ble_tracker:
scan_parameters:
interval: 1100ms
window: 1100ms
active: true
bluetooth_proxy:
active: true
After few hiccups I was able to add esp32 device in esphome dashboard. Using 'visit' link, i can open device web page, But it is always 'offline' in homeassistant esphome dashboard.
You might need to assign it a static IP and/or use the ping option in Esphome
@@digiblurDIY is there any advantage over using tasmota32-bluetooth vs esphome proxy on esp32?
Only way I could add this device to esphome dashboard was using 'assign it a static IP'. Device webpage does show logs of (re-) flashing and 'Home Logs 2022.8.3 (::FFFF:C0A8:C86B): Connected successfully' - but no BLE entities, just 'button.safe_mode_boot' button. Looks like it just sees as Unifi device. (ps" When flashed with Tasmota32-blutooth bin, it picks up BLE devices.)
Does it do switchbot ?
I think that is phase 2 part with the 2 way comms.
I dont get this, why not just plop a USB dongle directly to home assistant and do that thingy.
So many reasons... I didn't cover them all but pass through issues, USB issues, range issues, etc. Bluetooth Low Energy only goes so far.
Has anyone tried such a Bluetooth device with air quality sensors included? Closest I've found are B0B616VGQJ or B09YQ2HGVB, but I highly doubt they work outside their respective apps.
I know one was worked on by the Blerry project so it could probably be done in HA as well if the packets were analyzed