I was never able to get the iBeacon part of the HA app to work. I confirmed with another device that it was broadcasting (same as you did). I also confirmed with a dedicated iBeacon app I could get my phone to be detected by HA. Seemed to be a somewhat common problem and since I didn’t care enough, I didn’t bother to use another app.
Hmm, is it certain that it’s just the names are the problem? Is there any Android App that can set the names somehow? I’ve tried a few beacon transmitter Apps and had zero success to see the beacons in HA.
Hmm, thanks. I found an app that can set the name, but as far as I see the name is not in the advertisement packet, but in a scan response, so ESPHome needs to query the beacon from its side I guess. Anyway, even if I set the name I don’t see it in the HA (I see the beacon on other phone).
I’ll try maybe to build ESPHome with that 40004 whitelisting PR merged in and see if that helps…
Thanks, that really works for me now. The only problem is that when I disable/enable the iBeacon Transmitter in the HASS App it creates a new entity with same UUID/Major/Minor, but with some different suffix e.g.