Can't get espresence working esp32 w/ AppleWatch

[david1 (David)]

I have successfully installed it on a esp32 device.

Here’s what I can do:
I can see the mqtt payload going across via mqtt explorer via the following:
state_topic: “Espresence/devices/irk:63d815c41f7a9f2a06d81679d828dc71/main_room”

I can even see the irk showing up under the esp32 device settings

I found this topic (Integrating with Home Assistant - devices aren't recognized · Issue #1142 · ESPresense/ESPresense · GitHub), but i am able to successfully pair my watch with espresence, but I can’t get the distance showing up in home-assistant with the below yaml in my sensor config

- platform: mqtt_room
  name: "Davids Watch"
  device_id: "irk:63d815c41f7a9f2a06d81679d828dc71"
  state_topic: "Espresence/devices/irk:63d815c41f7a9f2a06d81679d828dc71/main_room"
  timeout: 5
  away_timeout: 100

could someone please help!!! what else can i try?

Thank. you!!!

[nickrout]

Why here? This is not the espresense forum.

[david1 (David)]

So helpful, my bad…

[david1 (David)]

So I was able to pair my iphone, but the watch does not seem to connect…

[david1 (David)]

I got it to pair succesfully, but the distance isnt showing up still

[duceduc]

Try removing main-room. It’s not needed.
Here is mine.

  - platform: mqtt_room
    name: 'Duc ESPresense'
    device_id: 'irk:8bcf809f09xxxxxxxxxxba36xxxxe5d5'
    state_topic: 'espresense/devices/irk:8bcf809f09xxxxxxxxxxba36xxxxe5d5'
    timeout: 5
    away_timeout: 45

[david1 (David)]

No go… does it need time to marinate?

[david1 (David)]

[duceduc]

Did you changed the Home Assistant discovery topic prefix: in your node configuration gui?? The default is blank which under state_topic is

espresense/devices/irk:8bcf809f09xxxxxxxxxxba36xxxxe5d5

In your mqtt screenshot, yours look different to mine.

[david1 (David)]

i have it without the room name too

[duceduc]

You mispelled espresense in your state_topic.

[david1 (David)]

thanks! it still doesnt seem to be fixed though, how can i check if auto discovery is enabled?

[duceduc]

You did restart HA for the changes???

[david1 (David)]

every time…

[duceduc]

How far is the node to the watch/iphone? Can you bring them close to the node and see if the distance changes?

[david1 (David)]

Not sure what changed, but finally got it with this method AND

making sure these were checked!

[duceduc]

Strange. Send to rooms topic is unchecked for me for all 5 of my nodes.

[RapTile]

This is working for me as well. thanks!
But not cool to see that it will be deprecated in v4 …
Now i finally got it working it is not nice to know that it will break with v4 and therefore in the future…
I did not check that box because i do not want it to break in the future but it is the only way to get it working.

Thanks for this!

[david1 (David)]

@RapTile

But not cool to see that it will be deprecated in v4 …

where does it say this?

[nickrout]

@david1

where does it say this?

In the screenshot he you posted.

Edit: Turn off by default deprecated send to rooms (you can still enable it until v4) by DTTerastar · Pull Request #1032 · ESPresense/ESPresense · GitHub