Home Assistant 2024 - How To Add Bluetooth Proxy & Sensors

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024

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  • @PoisonWaffle3
    @PoisonWaffle3 Месяц назад +6

    Thanks for the video, Travis! I've been using ESP32 boards as bluetooth proxies for a while, but I didn't realize that that ESP32 based Shelly devices could act as bluetooth proxies with the stock firmware! I just enabled it on a bunch of my Shelly devices that are still running stock firmware (mainly minis that require soldering to flash, and plugs that are just kind of a pain to open), and it worked like a charm 👍

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +2

      Nice! Little hidden secret for sure. I had to test it myself when I saw it on a test box.

  • @JohnDoe1999-lg7mh
    @JohnDoe1999-lg7mh 17 дней назад +1

    Hi. Yes, I would like to see a video that shows the setup/config with the TTGO ESP32 PoE as the BT-Proxy.

  • @blakebowden955
    @blakebowden955 16 дней назад +1

    Love the presentation and information- appreciate the candor and the conversational way you've gone about it

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  16 дней назад

      Thanks! Old school and real without the script nonsense.

  • @JohnDoe1999-lg7mh
    @JohnDoe1999-lg7mh 18 дней назад +1

    Thanks for all you do for the community.

  • @michaelmacho1
    @michaelmacho1 15 дней назад

    Yes do more videos on Bluetooth proxy …. Trying to figure out if a I phone and headphones would work with Bluetooth proxy to avoid Bluetooth range limitations when talking on the phone or listening to music.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  12 дней назад

      These aren't Bluetooth repeaters.

  • @Tntdruid
    @Tntdruid Месяц назад +5

    I do like the *long* videos 👍

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +2

      Someone might have complained saying my 14 min one was too long before so I did a 2 for one. The ones that like the long ones even got a longer video so win win right?

  • @raymiles534
    @raymiles534 Месяц назад +1

    Enjoyed the video, learned about the newer shellys. My older shellys are wifi only. I have 3 or 4 atom stacks that I use as bt proxies. I'm not a programmer, but I don't know how to see if these proxies are working, how often they transfer data. A tutorial on how to see this in HA would be awesome to me. Thanks

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      You can turn on the logging as verbose and see the logs. It can get crazy depending on traffic of Bluetooth. Other than that it is unplug each and test one by one to see if sensors work or not.

  • @vikylin
    @vikylin Месяц назад

    so informative!

  • @gadget1968
    @gadget1968 Месяц назад

    Great Video nice content many thanks for the work you put in... Question have you thought about doing a good video about setting up and configuring a Unifi or other network properly ? Just a thought and or idea .....

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      I don't have or use UniFi routers though so it would definitely trip up some folks trying to do full stacks.

  • @wapphigh5250
    @wapphigh5250 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for this Digi , you are a gun on this stuff. One day I'll get around to all this! Believe it or not I have a large (but real stable) HA set up since following yr Dell Micro PC build but don't have any of the ESP32 home or bluetooth stuff. Just stable wifi and ZHA. And maybe 8 older Shellies. I don't even have Matter yet! Been so happy! My question is by adding say an ESP32 (which I'd like to get into) and choosing a bluetooth one, am I going to get 2.4 or other wifi interference? I'm not into wireshark and don;t want to screw up a real stable wifi set up or mess around with different channels. Do I need to worry about this? thanks.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Nice to hear about the setup! And nawww.... it isn't going to cause any interference really. You probably have a lot bluetooth around already from other things as it is. Bluetooth jumps around with smaller narrow channels as needed.

  • @rasbe6863
    @rasbe6863 27 дней назад

    Great video Travis. The question I have is the govee Bluetooth bulbs. Are they auto discovered or do you have to have the govee Bluetooth installed into home assistant. I bought some of those govee bulbs but they were not Auto discovered.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  25 дней назад

      Not sure if those are supported by the built in integration of Govee. Have you tried this one? www.home-assistant.io/integrations/govee_light_local/

  • @terryuland6502
    @terryuland6502 Месяц назад

    How often does the Shelly BLU H&T update the sensor readings? Some folks on Amazon have complained the version of that with the e-ink display only updates every 5 minutes and only if the temp has changed by 1 degree or humidity by 2% and that setting is not configurable.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      I think it is triggered by the delta. I can put it outside and check to see the change if it is driven by time or temp.

  • @BryanWood1
    @BryanWood1 Месяц назад +1

    I have ha on a Nuc 11. How to use the onboard Bluetooth of the nuc?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      I assume HAOS? If it isn't popping in then that chipset probably isn't supported.

    • @wapphigh5250
      @wapphigh5250 Месяц назад

      great question!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Before you go down the rabbit hole of trying to see if your onboard BLE is supported read the "before you begin section" www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/#before-you-begin

    • @BryanWood1
      @BryanWood1 Месяц назад

      It does show up in HA, but it says there is entities

    • @BryanWood1
      @BryanWood1 Месяц назад

      It says it is passive

  • @FrankyB295
    @FrankyB295 Месяц назад

    I use 3 olimex. Have had problems with them being unstable. Curious on why you are iffy with them. I am thinking about buying new poe BT proxies

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      I had one stop working and then how hot they get compared to others.

  • @jtarangom
    @jtarangom Месяц назад

    Great video!!! I have follow your instructions for the shelly method and I can control the shelly from HA but I cannot use it as a Bluetooth proxy, Im trying to add the Switchbot lock but when I try to add the integration it says there are no devices to connect to. Any guidance on how to troubleshoot why its not working? Thanks in advance!!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Which lock is it? The non pro one? Is it working with other Bluetooth devices?

    • @jtarangom
      @jtarangom Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY yes the non pro. I don't have any other Bluetooth to test at the moment. But I looked into the Shelly logs and the Bluetooth mac address of the lock shows as discovered.

  • @wapphigh5250
    @wapphigh5250 Месяц назад

    Sorry for all the questions Digi. If somebody like me has a non bluetooth (built in) Dell set up, no ESP home, no new bluetooth shelly's, no bluetooth USB dongle - would you say the best way to "add bluetooth" to HA would be by getting an ESP32 (with bluetooth inbuilt) POE ? what ESP32 board would you recommend to get? Is there an M5Stack that does ESPHome, bluetooth proxy and could also be built as a base for HA local voice? Thanks!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      No worries, ask away. In my opinion I wouldn't combine all that. Bluetooth can get kind of busy so I wouldn't have it with something else that takes a lot of processing. Trying to save $20 to later potentially give me hours of trouble isn't worth it.

  • @langelguy
    @langelguy 15 дней назад

    I tried do the Shelly Plug method and everything seems to be set up right (active bluetooth scanner mode, newest software, in HA) but isn't discovering any devices. I have an Intel NUC running HA and turned off the native bluetooth to that and my bluetooth devices wouldn't be discovered with the Shelly. When I turn the NUC bluetooth back on, the bluetooth devices are now discoverable in HA. I am just trying to use an easy device to extend my bluetooth near my Yale smart locks for more reliability.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  15 дней назад

      Is it the esp32 model of the plug?

    • @langelguy
      @langelguy 15 дней назад

      @@digiblurDIY Its the Shelly Plus Plug US, the same as in this video (got from your Amazon link).

    • @langelguy
      @langelguy 10 дней назад

      @digiblurDYI any thoughts on this?

  • @thebrentfamily7602
    @thebrentfamily7602 19 дней назад

    Any idea if the Shelly plug could be used for Bluetooth proximity too? That would make my life way easier if it could do that vs making cases for esp32 and getting plugs and charger and such

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  19 дней назад

      Proxy? Yes the Shelly esp32 devices can be enabled

    • @thebrentfamily7602
      @thebrentfamily7602 19 дней назад

      ​@@digiblurDIYfor Bluetooth proximity sensors, to locate devices in your home. I know you can run it on esp32.

    • @thebrentfamily7602
      @thebrentfamily7602 19 дней назад

      You can use it to configure a dashboard on your device based on the room it's in.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  19 дней назад +1

      No idea there. I would assume it would be the same as other Bluetooth proxies sending data to HA to process.

  • @mindshelfpro
    @mindshelfpro Месяц назад

    I have a BT USB dongle connected directly to the HA OS MiniPC, but I don't get the settings that you have. Can you show how to use a BT dongle directly please? thanks!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      what settings? I know some of those just pop in as the BT device but I know the devs of HA having been saying to just go BT proxy now for stability and such.

  • @Johnsormani
    @Johnsormani День назад

    Did you compare Bluetooth proxy to openmqttgateway?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  15 часов назад

      No, totally different aspects of things. Bluetooth proxy has Home Assistant do all the processing.

    • @Johnsormani
      @Johnsormani 15 часов назад

      @@digiblurDIY yes but openmqtt can also handle different signals. I will try both I guess, just for fun

  • @ugbundominations2007
    @ugbundominations2007 Месяц назад

    Would the Shelly devices allow for connecting up Govee LED strips?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      If it is supported by the Bluetooth component in HA.

  • @naronaroyan323
    @naronaroyan323 Месяц назад

    If I have a Tuya BLE smart lock, would this work as a BLE gateway to have it connect to HA and control the lock that way?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      I doubt it unless you can obtain the Bluetooth encryption key

    • @naronaroyan323
      @naronaroyan323 Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY It connected to a Adaproxy bridge that had came with my Fingerbot; did the bridge have the key?
      I thought it would connect to the hub as it does to my phone. I am able to have local Tuya work on HA using their keys, maybe I can get the bluetooth key that way as well?

  • @stang70man
    @stang70man Месяц назад

    I have problems with the Govee 5178 temperature sensor that they won't stay on Fahrenheit, but go back and forth to Celsius. I contacted Govee and they sent me two more and they did the same thing...

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Looks like it isn't available on Amazon might be one of the reasons

  • @vjrvideo
    @vjrvideo Месяц назад

    Any way to use those shellys like room presence to know who's in the room?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Does the person have onboard BLE? :) I'm not away of ESPHome of Shelly exposing that to see which device it came from but then again I haven't dug into the room presence thing since my humans do not have onboard BLE yet.

    • @vjrvideo
      @vjrvideo Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY With iPhones now days is good to know where people are in the house. Just a sample case, if somebody put clothes on the washer machine I will know who was to message later when ready.

  • @SteveJones172pilot
    @SteveJones172pilot Месяц назад +2

    Awesome video.. New sub earned for biden PiP 🙂

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Sorry. I was having a bad day. 🤣

    • @SteveJones172pilot
      @SteveJones172pilot Месяц назад +1

      @@digiblurDIY It was perfect!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Not literally lol.. Just another shameless quote I keep hearing on news sites.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Oh and nice name! The kiddo got to fly one a few years ago. I have some video ruclips.net/video/xY9SA93UdXo/видео.html

    • @SteveJones172pilot
      @SteveJones172pilot Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY That is AWESOME!! I haven't flown in several years.. hope to get back to it! One of my FAVORITE things about flying was to take people for rides like that.. especially kids. Save your money - I bet you're going to be paying for flying lessons soon!! :-) One time, I took a 9 year old girl, and when we were about 300' up, literally still over the runway climbing up, without warning, she yelled "My turn" and stiff-armed the controls and tried to take over.. Luckily it was easy to overpower a small 9 year old girl, and nothing bad happened, but it certainly made me include "dont grab the controls until I let you know!" to my preflight briefing!!

  • @EmilePolka
    @EmilePolka Месяц назад

    The only Pain in the arse on this thing is once you want to move it to a different SSID any esp32 with bt proxy enabled via wifi have issues accesing the AP mode captive portal. Its very hard to access that you might as well just reflash the entire thing instead if you want to move that thing on different ssid.
    My other esp32 that doesn't have bt proxy have no problems accessing the AP mode captive portal.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      You can add more than one wifi ssid on Esphome from what I remember

  • @jackipiegg
    @jackipiegg Месяц назад

    26:06
    Does it work with aqara locks without the stupid hub now?!

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Aqara is Thread/Zigbee

    • @jackipiegg
      @jackipiegg Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY
      Its locks specifically use bluetooth for some odd reason.

  • @Ender_Wiggin
    @Ender_Wiggin Месяц назад

    Darn it i had a ESP32-C6 and it did not pop up for me

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      You can manually add Esphome devices. Hit add and hit Esphome then put that IP in.

  • @BryanWood1
    @BryanWood1 Месяц назад +1

    What about if my Shellly plug is flashed with Tasmota?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Nope. Tasmota does not support Esphome Bluetooth proxy at this time.

    • @BryanWood1
      @BryanWood1 Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY okay. thanks

  • @robbiedenton3752
    @robbiedenton3752 Месяц назад

    Why use AAA batteries in freezer?

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      Because coincells don't work well. They just freeze up.

  • @Rsm583
    @Rsm583 Месяц назад

    With your 3d print enclosure that filament did you use? If you use pla use something like abs

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      Regular PLA like I used for many other cases. The Olimex just gets smoking hot.

    • @Rsm583
      @Rsm583 Месяц назад +1

      @digiblurDIY Don't use pla for electronic enclosures. Use petg or abs. Pla is brittle and can easily break in time.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад

      I have some enclosures that ran for years without issues. But they don't get hot so lesson learned there.

  • @OzDrizzleDrizzle
    @OzDrizzleDrizzle Месяц назад

    Bluetooth as a tech needs to go away. Maybe ok of for beacon tracking but that’s about it.

    • @digiblurDIY
      @digiblurDIY  Месяц назад +1

      What should replace this? It's being implemented in so many more products now.

    • @OzDrizzleDrizzle
      @OzDrizzleDrizzle Месяц назад

      @@digiblurDIY a ground up rethink. Not 2.4ghz for a start, standardised and adhered to transmit and receive power and antenna design. Bluetooth was great for its time when it came out 20 years ago but it’s time for something more reliable and standardised.

    • @jasonsmathers2361
      @jasonsmathers2361 Месяц назад +1

      I thought the same until I got some Bluetooth devices setup in my camper. It is at remote location to my home assistant instance and I can use wireguard along with Bluetooth proxy on an esp32 device to have them still show up in home assistant. Pretty cool.

    • @OzDrizzleDrizzle
      @OzDrizzleDrizzle Месяц назад

      @@jasonsmathers2361 Great to hear they’re working well. I do fear this just reinforces my judgement though. Blue tooth assumes a nice, congestion free 2.4 ghz environment so no residential density and very short distances between gateway. It’s compromised on just so many levels. After 20+ years I would expect a dedicated radio band sub 2ghz for IoT that is NOT licensed and has rigorous standards. As it stands it’s just a sh** show. My opinion is based on having multiple esp32 gateways both wired Poe and wireless and following what is going on with chatter in the logs. It’s a debarkle. Pretty much only useful for one way devices where it doesn’t matter if it takes 1sec or 300 and 20 retransmits for a byte of info to be received. Bluetooth is cheap and nasty. Mostly nasty.

    • @jasonsmathers2361
      @jasonsmathers2361 Месяц назад

      @@OzDrizzleDrizzle I agree, not the greatest for in a congested environment, but checkout Hubble Network. Bluetooth connection to a satellite.. assuming it ends up happening.