HA Custom Integration to control BLE ADV Ceiling Fans / Lamps

First of all, the main problem in such case is usually the Bluetooth range: please try to put the device less than 3 meters away from your Bluetooth adapter (and in direct view, no wall) and retry in order to get ride of this possibility.

I tried to pair it - but without success.

Have you tried to use the recommended “Duplicate Config” Flow before that, from an already paired controller controlling your device (the Android Phone App or a Remote)?

Using the “Pairing” Flow, have you followed the instructions on screen (cut power supply of the device, reinstate it and then press “submit” within 5s)?

the remote was identified as a v3

Not exactly, ONE of the protocols used by the remote is v3. It may be sending other kind of protocols but we keep only the first one we manage to decode when discovering a supplementary controller.

Last potential issue if everything is failing: maybe VMWARE does not provide root user / direct access to the host network (CAP_ADMIN capacity), but I have very limited knowledge of VMWARE and I would not know how to do so…

Fun Fact: I will never understand why people would answer “yes” to the question “Did the light blink?” whereas it did not :smile:

Hello,
In the end I tried to work with a spare raspberry I had and installed HomeAssistant and tried the whole thing again.
This time I was able to achive it but with the PAIRING (the duplicate config unfortunately didn’t work).

Now I will see what I will do with those fans :slight_smile:
Using a second instance is a little stupid XD
I have to figure out how to do your workaround inside Unraid - since per default you add docker not with a “standard docker file”.
Still have to find out how to do it :slight_smile:

EDIT: I was able to run the container you indicated in the workaround and to connect to my HA instance.
I was able to pair the fan with the PAIRING mode:

I configured it as 6speed (as it has on the command), it has sleep mode, etc…
It’s correct that those 3 entries are the only one I get?
Also so the 6 “speed” steps, are indeed controlled as the 0-100% slider right? No “fix” step is shown.

In any case, thanks again for the support and great job with the addon! :slight_smile:

It’s correct that those 3 entries are the only one I get?

Yes, click on “Main Fan” text to have the full control UI. Same for lights.

EDIT: Oups I may misunderstood your comment…
Yes, what other entities would you want ?

the 6 “speed” steps, are indeed controlled as the 0-100% slider right? No “fix” step is shown.

Home Assistant standard Fan Entity UI: the 6-steps is shown as 0-100% but you can only setup 6 different values (16/33/50/66/83/100), and 0.