BLE usage on Aruba AP's

Prodigyplace · February 11, 2022, 10:41am

Unless you somehow reverse engineer I suspect most all of the information needed is confidential restricted to HPE and select Zigbee partners constrained by nondisclosure agreements.

thatkide · June 23, 2022, 2:32pm

I would be interested in something like this.

ericleb · November 10, 2022, 9:02pm

Coming in late. I am able to track BLE beacons and also extract temperature/humidity data from Govee BLE sensors. Basically, I use an IoT transport profile with websocket enabled, A simple websocket server in Python receives the data and pass it to home assistant through mqtt. I happen to be an Aruba engineer, but I didn’t need any non-public documentation. I am not a programmer, not enough time and qualifications to write a proper integration.

jarvih · November 14, 2022, 5:43pm

Here is aruba’s own example how to control HUE lights.
Somebody just have to write integration to aruba’s api.

github.com

aruba/aos8-iot-server-example-websocket/blob/e3924babb6f298d39895bde46b72572c2278825a/README_zigbee.md

# Using the ZigBee Southbound API

## Setup your Aruba AP/Controller

There are a few settings you need to change on the Aruba Access Point. You can change all of them the easiest via the Webinterface (-just open the IP of your AP in a browser-) or if you prefer via ssh.

<strong>Note</strong>: In the Instant WebUI, the IoT configuration can be found under `"Services"`. Scroll down to the `"IoT"` section.

<strong>Note</strong>: In ArubaOS MCR WebUI, the IoT configuration can be found under `"Configuration"`->`"IoT"`.

1. First you need to set a `IoT-Radio-Profile`. This radio needs to use `ZigBee` as Radio mode and needs to act as "Coordinator". The channel can be set manually (e.g. 11) or in auto mode. If you want to use another channel, that works as well but it has to be set on all instances and supported by the devices. Philips Hue bulbs are said to support channels 11,15,20 and 25.

2. You also have to set up a `ZigBee Service profile`. Please enable "Security", set "PAN ID" on automatic and always allow new devices to join. Users don't have to always allow new devices to join but this helps avoid connection problems when trying out the SouthBound API.

3. The `ZigBee-Socket-Device-Profile` configures which Endpoints, Clusters and Profiles are allowed. It can be configured as follows:

```
Source Endpoint  Destination Endpoint  Cluster ID  Profile ID  Direction
---------------  --------------------  ----------  ----------  ---------
232              11                    0006        0104        outbound

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Lexodexo · October 30, 2023, 8:15am

I just wrote a little example to parse the Xiaomi Mija BLE sensor, seems to be working just fine with 5 APs and 6 Xiaomi Mija sensors. Sadly I had not enough time to write a full integration, but maybe this still helps some people.

TestInProd · February 11, 2024, 6:44pm

I’m curious if anyone has ran with this and has been playing with integrating Aruba Zigbee into ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.