Hey, does anyone know if the Shelly Blu Gateway is supported by ESPHome?
As far as I can tell from the Home Assistant docs page, Shelly out of the box does not support maintaining active bluetooth connections, and I’m curious if flashing it (if possible) with ESPHome would help with that?
I need to extend the reach of my HASS instance to get SwitchBot’s outdoor meters in range, sadly apparently no passive broadcasting is available on them.
I tried flashing one of the Shelly devices with ESPHome and enabling BT Proxy. Spent hours making tweaks, and every time I added BT Proxy it crashed and I had to serially flash it again.
Pretty positive they don’t require an active connection. I have one that works fine without any credentials; just opened it up and it was discovered by HA.
I have one that works fine without any credentials; just opened it up and it was discovered by HA.
Either way it’s beyond my HA’s BT range.
I ended up writing a Shelly script that reads the data advertised by the sensor and broadcasts it over MQTT to Home Assistant.
Not sure why Shelly is natively capable of proxying some of sensors data (like Xiaomi’s thermometer) but not others.
Admittedly I’m not familiar with the Blu Gateway at all. Is it physically connected to your HA machine and what you’re using to pick up the Switchbot temp sensor?
I have a ton of ESPHome devices (primarily doing other things but also acting as proxies) and a couple Shellys also acting as proxies. There’s enough overlap that I can’t definitively verify that the Shellys proxy the same (minus active connections), but that’s my understanding.