I just got an ESP32 flashed with Espresence and i turned on the BLE Transmitter in the manage sensors section of my android phone HA app as well as on my Pixel Watch HA app.
On my Espresense device i cannot seem to find them! How am i supposed to identify them among all these devices? I thought they’d show up as iBeacons but they aren’t
I set the max distance to 0.5 meters and put them right next to the ESP32 with no other device within a full meter and nothing is showing up.
I actually managed to get my phone iBeacon to show up. But it isn’t transmitting very frequently. It’s on 1Hz transmission interval (Low Power) and Medium Transmission Power and still the ibeacon only shows an update once every 5-10 seconds… I see my other devices updating much more frequently (such as apple pencil, macbook, iPad). Why does the HA App BLE transmitter not seem to transmit very well?
Still have not gotten the Pixel Watch iBeacon to show up. It seems that the pixel watch app (WearOS) does not let you configure the transmission interval or power. It only lets you enable or disable BLE Transmitter
You can configure the sensor settings on the watch using the notification command sent to the watch directly
Also use the beacon monitor sensor to actually determine if the transmitter stops transmitting using another device. Unless you see a log message saying the transmitter stopped it actually is still transmitting
For anyone still trying to figure this out, you send these messages as automations. For example, here’s how I have it set up so that when my phone and/or watch leaves my house, it turns off BLE transmitting, and when they enter my house, it turns BLE transmitting to “balanced.” Just set it up moments ago, but it seems to be working!