Espresense additional attributes to handle two devices with identical device_id

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Challenge: My partner an I have many of the same Bluetooth devices (fitbits, Jabra Headphones, etc). Each on of these devices has a unique Bluetooth MAC address but an identical device_id which is waht ESpresense needs to identify which ESP Sensor the Bluetooth device is closest to.

Question: Is there a way to format the following:

  • platform: mqtt_room
    name: “JAYs Jabra Evolve”
    device_id: “name:jabra-evolve2-65”
    state_topic: “espresense/rooms”
    timeout: 5
    away_timeout: 60

  • platform: mqtt_room
    name: “Kims Jabra Evolve”
    device_id: “name:jabra-evolve2-65”
    state_topic: “espresense/rooms”
    timeout: 5
    away_timeout: 60

to some how include the bluetooth MAC in addition to the device ID so I can use all of the bluetooth devices we already own instead of attempting to use tiles, and BLE Charms that work with limited accuracy and success? Thank you!

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Is there a solution to this? I would need the same thing