Bluetooth, an old friend joining the future. One of the applications where Bluetooth stand out from the crowd is room presence (short range is useful here) and beacons in general. Again thank you so much for this helpful series
Thanks for the video! I am going all Bluetooth in my home. That’s mainly because the home I’m building is mobile. I’m currently converting a short school bus into my mobile home. Because I can’t guarantee internet access everywhere I’m going all internal networked smart options. And it seems bluetooth is the best universal smart device connector that can work with out any outside internet connections.
Hi Lewis! Thanks for creating such brilliant content. Your content is insightful and entertaining, and you have a great voice to listen to. Congrats and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have a couple of questions. Recently started dipping my foot into Home Assistant after using Hubitat for a while. Currently I'm using Home Assistant with Hubitat integrated via HACs. This seems to work fairly flawlessly. As I already have the Hubitat hub, do you think there's must reason to invest in a Zigbee dongle and connect everything directly to my Home Assistant instance? Secondly, following your great video, I recently installed Tailscale on my Home Assistant instance and noted the option to connect to other devices on the network. Sure enough, when connected to the VPN I am able to access Hubitat via my IP address. I can access everything on my network, which is great. But, how does this work!? Many thanks, and please keep up the great content!
I have a BTLE tracker (nutale) on my keyring. I want to use it for presence detection. I added Blietooth integration but no bluetooth devices have appeared as discovered devices However I downloaded diagnostics and searched for nutale and found it, along with many other bluetooth devices in my home. I want to know how to use them.
One area where BLE is better than all the other protocols, is for temperature sensors where you don't need insane range. Using BLE broadcasts, anything with Bluetooth LE in range can listen to the broadcasts. Ruuvi sensors are really nice, they broadcast temperature, humidity, pressure and acceleration every 2s for around 3 years on one battery. They are also fully open source hardware, firmware, apps and even the optional gateway and cloud :). Xiaomi "ATC_MiThermometer" with custom firmware is also really nice, they broadcast temperature and humidity and are extremely cheap and has an LCD.
I was gonna say the same: temp sensors are ideal for BLE because 1. They are one directional, and 2. Not (usually) critical, if a packet gets dropped every now and then
Thanks for the vids. I can't seem to find a way of controlling my BLE lights from HA. It seems odd that I can from a phone with an app but not from HA. I'm new to HA am I missing something or could you please direct me to some answers on this. It looks like the only way forward is to get a hub to do it for me. But that seems like an expense that could be avoided. Any ideas?
If you have the option of a smart lock using z-wave, zigbee or bluetooth...is it simpler/more secure/more reliable to have the lock activated by detection of your bluetooth signal or by some kind of integration?
I would love a comparison in price and battery life for outdoor sensors (temp and humidity in particular) I'm looking for the best cost effective way to monitor multiple animal houses. BLE "blobs" can be small, sturdy, and weather proof, but can I get the same small size, IP-rating, and battery life with Z-wave/Zigbee sensors?
Hi, I've recently put together my first box running on Home Assistant , I'm trying to find a way to connect my Bluetooth speaker (sony SRS-XB13). While I use the Passive BLE monitor for my switchbot , I don't see a bluetooth scanner for speakers , am I missing sometthing ? Thanks for all the videos, I just wanted to get some info on how to automate one little thing and I'm ending up with a new hobby !!!! lol
I'm trying to find a way to add my Tuya bluetooth meat thermometer to Home Assistant. I already tried a ESP32 bluetooth proxy, a bluetooth USB dongle, which is discovered, installing passive BLE monitor and what not. I know the devices MAC-adress, but honestly, I am at a loss. Is this even possible?
Hi Lewis, thank you very much for sharing these great videos, the information you provide is always super accurate and concise which has helped me a lot in my process of making my home and business smart. Lately we have had some security problems in the store and thanks to my security system made with Home Assistant, Frigate and Alarmo I was able to prevent a robbery attempt, the thieves managed to enter but ran away when a motion sensor triggered the alarm, but sadly they didn't walk by the camera so Frigate didn't send me the photo. The police captured some suspects but since there was no evidence that they where inside the store, they had to release them. Is it possible to use bluetooth in Home Assistant to make a list of the devices that are in range when the alarm is activated? The suspects had phones so one of them probably had bluetooth on and saving the address could be used as proof that they were at the site. Do you think this is possible? Could you make a video on the subject or at least tell me where can I get information to do it? Once again, thank you very much for such an excellent job.
I use BLE temp/hum sensors in my refrigerators and freezers. I'm also going to replace the ESP32 humidity sensor I made for my cigar humidor with a BLE device and see how that works.
The reason I'm asking is that both appear to be successful at very low energy battery powered sensors, and can get super cheap. Understanding just how much energy they sip would be v cool
Nordic has a nifty device called power profiler kit 2 (ppk2) for current measuring low power devices. I use semi local brand plejd for my lights with battery wall rotary encoder which has held up so far a year in, battery voltage Is basically like new cr2032 So it is very doable to have really responsive bluetooth devices even when on battery.
I tend to avoid Bluetooth unless there is no alternative e.g. SwitchBot Bot and Curtains, of which I really wish they would release a Zigbee version of both, as it is very laggy by comparison and can sometimes miss a command altogether. As others have said, Bluetooth for a temperature sensor is not such a problem. I'd still take a Zigbee version over Bluetooth where possible though.
I use SPP it smashes BLE and WIFI on range and speed you can connect up to 50 devices to say 1 phone or pc or multiple phones or PCs at the same time also smashes mesh network by far.
I don't think you can disable notifications...they certainly aren't disabled anyways as I can see traffic from other subscribers through them. Not sure why you can't click them
@@EverythingSmartHome If I click the bell, and then All, nothing happens. If I click the bell and then None, a message comes up about it, in the bottom left corner. (using the desktop site, not the app)
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Bluetooth, an old friend joining the future.
One of the applications where Bluetooth stand out from the crowd is room presence (short range is useful here) and beacons in general.
Again thank you so much for this helpful series
Thanks for watching!
Thank you.
Thanks for the video! I am going all Bluetooth in my home. That’s mainly because the home I’m building is mobile. I’m currently converting a short school bus into my mobile home. Because I can’t guarantee internet access everywhere I’m going all internal networked smart options. And it seems bluetooth is the best universal smart device connector that can work with out any outside internet connections.
Hi Lewis! Thanks for creating such brilliant content. Your content is insightful and entertaining, and you have a great voice to listen to. Congrats and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have a couple of questions. Recently started dipping my foot into Home Assistant after using Hubitat for a while. Currently I'm using Home Assistant with Hubitat integrated via HACs. This seems to work fairly flawlessly. As I already have the Hubitat hub, do you think there's must reason to invest in a Zigbee dongle and connect everything directly to my Home Assistant instance?
Secondly, following your great video, I recently installed Tailscale on my Home Assistant instance and noted the option to connect to other devices on the network. Sure enough, when connected to the VPN I am able to access Hubitat via my IP address. I can access everything on my network, which is great. But, how does this work!? Many thanks, and please keep up the great content!
Very informative!
Smart, nerdy and adorable. Great content.
Haha thanks, appreciate it!
I have a BTLE tracker (nutale) on my keyring. I want to use it for presence detection. I added Blietooth integration but no bluetooth devices have appeared as discovered devices However I downloaded diagnostics and searched for nutale and found it, along with many other bluetooth devices in my home. I want to know how to use them.
One area where BLE is better than all the other protocols, is for temperature sensors where you don't need insane range. Using BLE broadcasts, anything with Bluetooth LE in range can listen to the broadcasts. Ruuvi sensors are really nice, they broadcast temperature, humidity, pressure and acceleration every 2s for around 3 years on one battery. They are also fully open source hardware, firmware, apps and even the optional gateway and cloud :).
Xiaomi "ATC_MiThermometer" with custom firmware is also really nice, they broadcast temperature and humidity and are extremely cheap and has an LCD.
That is pretty cool!
I was gonna say the same: temp sensors are ideal for BLE because 1. They are one directional, and 2. Not (usually) critical, if a packet gets dropped every now and then
Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Is there going to be one on RF?
Not planned at the moment - perhaps in the future!
Thanks for the vids. I can't seem to find a way of controlling my BLE lights from HA. It seems odd that I can from a phone with an app but not from HA. I'm new to HA am I missing something or could you please direct me to some answers on this. It looks like the only way forward is to get a hub to do it for me. But that seems like an expense that could be avoided. Any ideas?
If you have the option of a smart lock using z-wave, zigbee or bluetooth...is it simpler/more secure/more reliable to have the lock activated by detection of your bluetooth signal or by some kind of integration?
I'd probably go for z-wave or ZigBee given the choice personally!
@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks!
I would love a comparison in price and battery life for outdoor sensors (temp and humidity in particular) I'm looking for the best cost effective way to monitor multiple animal houses. BLE "blobs" can be small, sturdy, and weather proof, but can I get the same small size, IP-rating, and battery life with Z-wave/Zigbee sensors?
I‘m guessing the next video is Thread and last one Matter, based on the icon-rotation in the thumbnail. :-)
You'd be guessing right!
Hi, I've recently put together my first box running on Home Assistant , I'm trying to find a way to connect my Bluetooth speaker (sony SRS-XB13). While I use the Passive BLE monitor for my switchbot , I don't see a bluetooth scanner for speakers , am I missing sometthing ? Thanks for all the videos, I just wanted to get some info on how to automate one little thing and I'm ending up with a new hobby !!!! lol
I'm trying to find a way to add my Tuya bluetooth meat thermometer to Home Assistant.
I already tried a ESP32 bluetooth proxy, a bluetooth USB dongle, which is discovered, installing passive BLE monitor and what not.
I know the devices MAC-adress, but honestly, I am at a loss.
Is this even possible?
Hi Lewis, thank you very much for sharing these great videos, the information you provide is always super accurate and concise which has helped me a lot in my process of making my home and business smart.
Lately we have had some security problems in the store and thanks to my security system made with Home Assistant, Frigate and Alarmo I was able to prevent a robbery attempt, the thieves managed to enter but ran away when a motion sensor triggered the alarm, but sadly they didn't walk by the camera so Frigate didn't send me the photo. The police captured some suspects but since there was no evidence that they where inside the store, they had to release them.
Is it possible to use bluetooth in Home Assistant to make a list of the devices that are in range when the alarm is activated?
The suspects had phones so one of them probably had bluetooth on and saving the address could be used as proof that they were at the site.
Do you think this is possible? Could you make a video on the subject or at least tell me where can I get information to do it?
Once again, thank you very much for such an excellent job.
I use BLE temp/hum sensors in my refrigerators and freezers. I'm also going to replace the ESP32 humidity sensor I made for my cigar humidor with a BLE device and see how that works.
It would be really cool to have a QUANTIFIED comparison of the energy requirements of BLE vs ZigBee!
That would be cool! Its probably out of my capabilities at this moment in time to do a video like that properly but that would be great one day!
A big +1 to that! (big +1, is that a +8 or something? 😁)
The reason I'm asking is that both appear to be successful at very low energy battery powered sensors, and can get super cheap. Understanding just how much energy they sip would be v cool
Nordic has a nifty device called power profiler kit 2 (ppk2) for current measuring low power devices.
I use semi local brand plejd for my lights with battery wall rotary encoder which has held up so far a year in, battery voltage Is basically like new cr2032
So it is very doable to have really responsive bluetooth devices even when on battery.
I tend to avoid Bluetooth unless there is no alternative e.g. SwitchBot Bot and Curtains, of which I really wish they would release a Zigbee version of both, as it is very laggy by comparison and can sometimes miss a command altogether. As others have said, Bluetooth for a temperature sensor is not such a problem. I'd still take a Zigbee version over Bluetooth where possible though.
Agreed!
I use SPP it smashes BLE and WIFI on range and speed you can connect up to 50 devices to say 1 phone or pc or multiple phones or PCs at the same time also smashes mesh network by far.
Com on man to a video on Howe to automate espresences ?
Wait, so the server is the "master" and the server is the "end device?"
That's so counter intuituve!
Haha yep, I thought that too!
I can't ring the RUclips bell. You seem to have notifications disabled.
I don't think you can disable notifications...they certainly aren't disabled anyways as I can see traffic from other subscribers through them. Not sure why you can't click them
@@EverythingSmartHome I think it's something to do with you setting your channel to content for children, or something like that.
No the channel is not set to that either, or the video. There is strict rules around setting that
@@EverythingSmartHome If I click the bell, and then All, nothing happens. If I click the bell and then None, a message comes up about it, in the bottom left corner. (using the desktop site, not the app)
I miss the old videos, the ones Smart home enthusiasts care about
Like which ones? I don't see how this is any different :)
I feel this stuff is vital information to make educated choices in a smarthome. I you already know this stuff, than watch other video's ;-)