Android BLE Transmitter Question

Mobile Apps
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Is there a way for this to be on only when the device is “home” for example? Rather than being on all the time?

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Yes you can use the notification command to control it

3

Perfect thank you.

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4

Does the companion wear os app also have a ble Transmitter? It seems my galaxy watch 4 is randomizing the Mac address.

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not yet, still have more work on wear OS to be done before we can evaluate if the sensor will work

6

Sounds good thank you for the work you are doing.

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BLE Sensor doesnt work for me. I have turned it on and used my UUID in my room assistant configuration but it doesn’t get detected at all.

Is this a common issue with Samsung phones? or just an issue in general?

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I have a galaxy s22 ultra and no issues.

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is there some setting that you have done?
are you using room assistant by any chance?

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Nothing different and I’m using espresence

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Well I did set up espresence and it does see my id but my entities on HA keep on saying unavailable.

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Maybe an Mqtt template issue?

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here is my piece of code in my configuration.yaml copied from the espresence’s instruction page:

  - platform: mqtt_room
    name: 'test'
    device_id: "5509931d-c605-4685-99ea-852268907d74-0-0"
    state_topic: 'espresense/rooms'
    timeout: 60
    away_timeout: 120
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can you share your config please?

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- platform: mqtt_room
    name: Phone
    device_id: "iBeacon:192c6f7d-69ad-4e84-84de-a03d32563003-100-1"
    state_topic: "espresense/rooms"
    timeout: 5 
    away_timeout: 120