How to integrate Inkbird IBS-P02R and HA

reypm · June 13, 2024, 10:44pm

I am looking to replace my old pool Thermometer and I would like to get something that I can check from HA Searching the Internet I found this article and I am willing to take any of these three. Of course, I would like to go with the Inkbird IBS-P02R, and the author mentions it is possible to integrate it with HA / Has anyone integrated this already and has some know-how or article or anything?

jaaem · June 13, 2024, 10:55pm

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/inkbird/

the IBS-PO1B is supported. I use a IBS-TH1 and have the electronics in a plastic bag (outside the pool). Works great.

CyberFlexie · August 27, 2024, 7:18am

Bought the thing but could not get it to work. Re-reading the article, the author did sai it was potentially possible that it would work with rtl_433. Ugh

Apparently the device uses FSK modulation, (more on it here) which makes it, at least for now, incompatible with my lilygo-rtl_433.

And here, is a list of devices that are supported, and it’s not (yet?) in the list…

DigiH · August 29, 2024, 11:08am

While FSK modulation has been added a while ago with RTL_433_ESP and subsequently OpenMQTTGateway for the LilyGo, the parent RTL_433 still seems to need to make some additions to the Inkbird decoder. Also it looks that the IBS-P02R uses 868 MHz rather than the 433 MHz, although this could also be region dependant, so the LilyGo would need to be a 868 MHz version for it to work properly once the decoder has been expanded. Alternatively any other RTL_433 implementation should also correctly decode it then.

github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

Support for Inkbird IBS-P03R Pool Thermometer

opened 04:21PM - 19 Jul 24 UTC

alefchak

device support

I recently purchased an Inkbird IBS-P03R pool thermometer with the hopes it woul…d work with the existing ITH-20R/IBS-P01R decoder, but it does not. I dug into it a bit and found some differences. This device seems to broadcast on 868 MHz rather than the 433 MHz of the older models. I'm able to capture some signals, for example: `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa2dd41080030100614942d410eb58e700018e5c` This lines up with similar messages from the older models, including the same sync word. I decoded a few of the fields - battery, temperature low byte, temperature high byte [shown here](https://triq.net/bitbench#c=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa2dd41080030100614942d410eb58f500012e580&c=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa2dd41080030100624942d410eb58e800014e510&c=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa2dd41080030100614942d410eb58e80001be5e0&f=8h%208h%208h%208h%208h%20BATTERY%3Ad%208h%208h%208h%208h%208h%208h%20TEMP_C_LOW%3Ad%20TEMP_C_HIGH%3Ad%208h%208h%208h%20bbbb&z=1&a=Sync&m=2dd4&s=-16&cl=151&cw=16). I haven't been able to find correlations with the other fields, or any sort of checksum algorithm that verifies the messages. Anyone have this device or able to give insight on proceeding?