Doggie Doorbell

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I have two one-year-old puppies. We had them ringing bells hanging from the doorknob when they needed to go outside, but we could not hear them in the other rooms. I found Paws2Go, (https://paws2go.pet/). We touched, it will play a short custom recording, flash some built-in LEDs, and send a notification to your cell phone. Nice, but not good enough!

I want to connect it to my Home Assistant Software. I thought this would be a major project but it was very easy. The first step was to install the “Passive BLE monitor” integration from the HACS. Once installed, click on “Configure” and make sure the option “Use active scan instead of passive scan (affects battery)” is Checked. Next touch the Paws2Go.

The BLE integration should now create a device with the name “085061777332476f0000000000000000”.
And the following sensors:

sensor.ble_uuid_085061777332476f0000000000000000
It will always be “085061777332476f0000000000000000”

sensor.ble_mac_085061777332476f0000000000000000
The MAC address will be different for every device.
This would only be used if there is more than one Paws2Go in the house.

sensor.ble_major_085061777332476f0000000000000000
This returns a number, My Paws2Go returns 51744 and it has not changed.
I am not sure if it is the same for all units or different for each unit.

sensor.ble_minor_085061777332476f0000000000000000
It is a counter, It will increase every time the Paws2Go is pressed.
This is the sensor we will be using for our Action.

sensor.ble_measured_power_085061777332476f0000000000000000
and sensor.ble_rssi_085061777332476f0000000000000000
are used to calculate the distances to the device. We will not need this.

Now we are ready to create an Action.
I gave the device “085061777332476f0000000000000000” the friendly name “Paws2go”
and “sensor.ble_minor_085061777332476f0000000000000000” the friendly name “Conuter”

I called my Action “Let’s Go Potty”

The trigger is “When Paws2go-Counter changes state or any attributes”

I then perform the following action:
{
Notifications: Send a notification via alexa_media_office_dot
Notifications: Send a notification via alexa_media_kitchen_dot
Repeat an action 3 times
Light ‘Turn on’ on Lamp_Office color_name: red brightness_pct: 25
Delay for 500 milliseconds
Light ‘Turn off’ on Lamp_Office

Light 'Turn on' on Lamp_Office color_name: blue brightness_pct: 50
Delay for 3:00
Light 'Turn off' on Lamp_Office

}

FYI: I use Lamp_Office color for different notifications;
Red = “Someone near the front door”
Blue = “Lets Go Potty”
Green = “My wife wants something!”

My YAML FILE:

alias: LetsGoPotty
description: LetsGoPotty
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.ble_minor_paws2go
condition: []
action:
  - data:
      message: Let's Go Potty
      data:
        type: tts
    action: notify.alexa_media_man_cave_dot
  - data:
      message: Let's Go Potty
      data:
        type: tts
    action: notify.alexa_media_kitchen_dot
  - repeat:
      count: 3
      sequence:
        - metadata: {}
          data:
            color_name: red
            brightness_pct: 25
          target:
            device_id:
              - 185098fa2210282d239200e37ea6b425
          action: light.turn_on
        - delay:
            hours: 0
            minutes: 0
            seconds: 0
            milliseconds: 500
        - metadata: {}
          data: {}
          target:
            device_id:
              - 185098fa2210282d239200e37ea6b425
          action: light.turn_off
        - delay:
            hours: 0
            minutes: 0
            seconds: 0
            milliseconds: 500
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
      rgb_color:
        - 12
        - 39
        - 237
    target:
      device_id: 185098fa2210282d239200e37ea6b425
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 3
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: 185098fa2210282d239200e37ea6b425
mode: single
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Awesome! Thanks for the inspiration.
I took a slightly different approach, using ESPHome and esp32_ble_tracker.
I found the MAC address of the Paws2Go button by pressing it and listening to all traffic with on_ble_advertise. The button doesn’t advertise the name, so looking for the BLE UUID that @dcslatter posted was helpful. After finding that, I parsed out the ble_minor to read the counter. Pressing the button will constantly send out packets, so I used the counter so that the logic only runs once. Then I set up a binary sensor “Paws2Go” and a script to execute a state change.

esp32_ble_tracker:
  on_ble_advertise:
    - mac_address: 10:97:BD:F2:41:FB
      then:
        - lambda: |-
            static int last_value = -1;
            auto manufacturer_datas = x.get_manufacturer_datas();
            if (!manufacturer_datas.empty()) {
              const auto &data = manufacturer_datas.front();
              int new_value = (data.data[20] << 8) | data.data[21];
              if (new_value != last_value) {
                last_value = new_value;
                id(paws2go_on_off).execute();
              }
            }
script:
  - id: paws2go_on_off
    mode: restart
    then:
      - lambda: |-
          id(paws2go_state).publish_state(true);
      - delay: 5s
      - lambda: |-
          id(paws2go_state).publish_state(false);
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Thanks for the help and inspiration to both of you! Got it working as well. Passive BLE was super easy to setup and now have a full routine built in as i start to train our new puppy!