Bluetooth Remote Control (iTag)

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Hello everyone, wanted to share my adaptation of the itag-mqtt-bridge.

This project allows cheap bluetooth tags (iTags) to be used as remote controls

My changes allow:

  • Enable MQTT auto discovery by Home Assistant (you need to have that enabled in configuration.yaml)
  • Enable multi-tag double-click.
  • Enable RSSI broadcast. (to better tune your automations according to iTag distance to the hub)

I’m no developer, merely an amateur code-modifier. I might not be able to provide much support if anything breaks, but if you are knowlegeable of NodeJS or Noble, maybe you could bring some good coding practices into what I’ve done, even turn this into an Add-on.

This is my setup:

  • Odroid HC1 running Diet-Pi and a Bluetooth USB Dongle.
  • Raspberry Pi 2, running raspbian lite and a Bluetooth USB Dongle.
  • Both setups worked running Node v8.11.1

Link: https://github.com/sibero80/itag-mqtt-bridge

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Great job. Can you elaborate a little bit on your installation steps. I would like to replicate this setup.

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Please tell us the process of setting up the remote control and setting the home assistant