Christmas tree bluetooth light

Third party integrations
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Hi all, I bought those BLE LED lights, which can be controlled by iDeal LED android app

LED should be WS2812B, but has bluetooth usb driver.

Was anybody successful in integrating those?

I already tried ELKBLEDOM (which is working for other led strip)

Also tried BLE LED integration
But there I only get “No devices found on the network”
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When I tried hcitool scan scan from Raspberry 4 I was not able to find the device, but I could connect via gatttool using mac adress of lights.

hcitool lescan is failing for me with Set scan parameters failed: Operation not permitted
But using bluetoothctl scan on I can see the device .

Name of the device using above command ISP-3C57F3

At first, I would like to be able to integrate those in HA in any way, but this Bluetooth strip is invidually controlable, which would be nice to have in HA but I did not find anything yet similar to above mentioned Android app or Twinkly app.

I would appreciate any help

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I bought an iDeal led strip a while ago, and couldn’t find any integration, either.
I hacked one (i.e. reversed-engineered the android app) allowing me to switch on/off, which is all I wanted.

If it can help (absolutely zero support, but I just checked and it still works :wink: ):

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Thank you very much, looks like it is working also for me.

I will also have a deeper look at your repo. Do you think it would be even possible to somehow control every LED individually using your repo as a base (Not wanting it from you, just if you think it is possible or not, so if I should look elsewhere or can start with your repo)?

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Everything that is done through the app is theoretically possible through the integration, but finding the right codes will be very difficult, imo.

As I said, I managed this by decompiling the android app. If you know what it means, you can have it a shot yourself…

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Hey. Thanks for this, could something be missing here on SERVICE_ID constant?

Ping @koying

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Well, it works like that for me…
Lot of copy/pasted code in there :wink:

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I just took your idea and generalized it here;

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Just created this account to thank you for creating such a great component.
Unfortunately, my server is far from the LED strip so I was thinking of using the from the ble_client.ble_write Action from ESPHome ble client.
Unfortunately, I am not sure how should I populate the following attributes:

service_uuid: 0xFFF0?
characteristic_uuid: d44bc439-abfd-45a2-b575-925416129600?
value: 84dd5042374150897ac82f39110968a8 to turn on and 79d1dba40919c246a8580ae7d11b7884 to turn off?

If it helps, this is what I was able to get using nRF Connect

nRF Connect
nRF Connect921Ă—2048 133 KB

I was wondering if someone may help…
Thanks in advance!

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You might as well use an ESPHome bluetooth proxy ( Bluetooth Proxy — ESPHome) and avoid headaches

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I have set a ESPHome bluetooth proxy as you mention and I’m still unable to mamke it work, but now the issue seems different.
I included a ble_rssi sensor in the proxy and I’m getting a -80 RSSI so proxy seems to work.
However, when adding the custom component, I get a blank pop-up and, if I click send, get an “Unknown error occured” message.
Moreover, I also tried @anon63427907 generic BT custom integration but the device does not appear in the configuration pop up neither…

That is the reason why I though about usingble_client as I have an esp32 just besides the LEF strip

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Lucky for you, that interesting post was just bumped :slight_smile:

Now, I suspect that if the integrations didn’t work, your device is not exactly the same as the others here, so YMMV

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Thanks for your help!
I was finally able to control the lights with esphome.
Leaving here this github as it may help someone else: https://github.com/8none1/idealLED/blob/efd20d6163edd67f10d91cc006ef45a115745aa0/att_protocol.md

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Super-interesting read :+1:

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Hi @eherranzr .

Could you paste your esphome yaml code.

I juste received one of this device and can’t grab it from the ha server due to distance, but got an esp at proximity.

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Sure. This is my yaml code

esp32_ble_tracker:
  scan_parameters:
    interval: 1100ms
    window: 1100ms
    active: true

bluetooth_proxy:

ble_client:
  - mac_address: #REDACTED
    id: luces_navidad
    on_connect:
      then:
        - lambda: |-
            ESP_LOGD("ble_client_lambda", "Connected to BLE device");
    on_disconnect:
      then:
        - lambda: |-
            ESP_LOGD("ble_client_lambda", "Disconnected from BLE device");

switch:
  - platform: ble_client
    ble_client_id: luces_navidad 
    name: "ConexiĂłn Luces Navidad"
  - platform: template
    name: "Apagar Luces Navidad"
    turn_on_action:
      - ble_client.ble_write:
          id: luces_navidad
          service_uuid: 0000fff0-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
          characteristic_uuid: d44bc439-abfd-45a2-b575-925416129600
          # List of bytes to write.
          #value: [0x01, 0xab, 0xff] Example
          value: [0x79, 0xd1, 0xdb, 0xa4, 0x9, 0x19, 0xc2, 0x46, 0xa8, 0x58, 0x0a, 0xe7, 0xd1, 0x1b, 0x78, 0x84]
  - platform: template
    name: "Encender Luces Navidad"
    turn_on_action:
      - ble_client.ble_write:
          id: luces_navidad
          service_uuid: 0000fff0-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
          characteristic_uuid: d44bc439-abfd-45a2-b575-925416129600
          # List of bytes to write.
          #value: [0x01, 0xab, 0xff] Example
          value: [0x84, 0xdd, 0x50, 0x42, 0x37, 0x41, 0x50, 0x89, 0x7a, 0xc8, 0x2f, 0x39, 0x11, 0x9, 0x68, 0xa8]
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