Hi All,
I’m trying to add IBS-TH2 to HA. I successfully added it to the ap. When I select the Inkbird integration I get the message no devices found on the network.
Is there something else I need to do?
I have a bluetooth dongle installed and my XIAOMI devices installed on bluetooth with no problem.
I would really appreciate some assistance with getting this device setup in HA
I think there is an issue. I couldn’t neleive how easy it was to set up , but now it’s unavailable and i get the same issue as you.
Hi, I’m looking for a wireless pool thermometer that connects to HA. I recon the TH2 is the actual pool thermometer and requires a receiver? Do you have the new IBS-M2 Wi-Fi supported receiver or how do you connect to HA? I did not see that model supported yet with the inkbird home assistant integration. Many thanks!
Is your IBS-TH2 still working? The issue I am seeing is that it gets a temperature reed, and then, while the history still shows a temp, it is not actually getting one from the sensor, since it never changes. So, it looks like the sensor is still online, but the temp just doesn’t update. I do have “Passive scanning runed off”…
Mine hasn’t missed a beat since my last update here
Thanks… Are you using out of the box bluetooth integration? And just to confirm, you have the sensor that has just the Temp, no humidity, right?
Standard BT integration no dongles on a RBpi4 my inkbird IBS-TH 0B2B, it has temp and humidty but i have an external prob going into a fish tank, but humidty is still working
Ok. Thanks. I have the sensor without humidity, so I am guessing it just doesn’t work well with HA.
Hi @Maksim-us,
the temperature only version of the IBS-TH2 is working well with our Theengs Gateway (Add-on), with auto-discovery and should report its temperature continuously, if you’re interested…
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying using the OOB integration and a HACS Passive BLE integration and neither worked. Added Theengs, and I think it’s finally working!
Thank you!!
Good morning. I am trying to connect my IBS-TH2 with the theengsgateway and it is not finding the thermometer. The only configuration parameters I changed on the theengsGateway configuration were my MQTTID and password. Could you share with me how you set up the config on the TheengsGateway?
Hi @birdman7160
Are you using the Theengs gateway Add-on, or a pip install, snap or Docker image?
When monitoring your MQTT broker, with MQTT explorer for example, do you see Theengs Gateway at all, at least with its online LWT message>
Thank you for your response. I figured out that my adapter was not BLE enabled. I have a new one on order.
Sorry about the delayed response. I determined that my BLE adaptor wasn’t compatible with Inkbird. Do you know of any Bluetooth BLE adaptors that are compatible?
I’m really not sure what you mean by a BLE adapter not being compatible with a certain brand device, if the device send regular BLE advertising broadcasts, which the TH1 and other Inkbird models do.
I personally use the Raspberry Pi built in Bluetooth, or the sister app OpenMQTTGateway on ESP32 microcontrollers, not any separate Bluetooth adapter for whichever computer and OS you are using.
Do you see any other Bluetooth devices with Theengs Gateway with your adapter, or could it just be a configuration issue, possibly with the connection to your MQTT broker if you are not seeing any BLE devices at all?
I run HA in a virtual machine on a Windows 11 (W11) PC. The “stock” bluetooth on W11 is not BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY (BLE) so I bought a TP-Link UB500 BLE (dongle) adaptor. No luck with the UB500. I know the Inkbird sensor is working because it is connected to the Inkbird app on both my iphone and ipad. Since the Inkbird app doesnt run in the W11 environment i cannot tell if there is any communications between the sensor and W11. So trying to figure out if there is a W11 adaptor that works with the IBS-TH2. Sorry about the long explanation.
I understand, but really don’t know anything about W11 compatible BLE Bluetooth adapters.
Once suggestion would be for you to get a $ 5-10 ESP32 and install our Theengs Gateway sister software OpenMQTTGateway BLE on it, which in turn will connect to your W11 HA installation Mosquito MQTT broker add-on.
It’ll likely be cheaper than any adapter and will let you receive the same BLE devices as Theengs gateway.
Other than that someone else here might have a suggestion for an adapter for your or know what the issue with W11 might be.
Digit, just wanted to close the loop with you. I took your suggestion and got an ESP32. It worked out really good. Had to go down a few rabbit holes to figure out how to get the ESP32s configured correctly but now it’s working really well. Once the ESP 32s were working, the Inkbird thermometer connected quickly. Thanks for your help.
