I’m already using HA quite a time right now and I think it’s great! The only problem i’m still struggling with is prescence detection. I made groups for the family members and their devices which works great, but the state is not right all the time.
My HA-setup is only local available so working with OwnTracks or Locative is not working. I use Router scanning which is a lot of times correct and use bluetooth scanning for mobile devices which works also a lot of times, but not always are a 100% correct.
I bought some nut mini BLE beacons which I read a lot about and tried to connect them with HA. I saw that the BLE component gives performance issues, so i’m now trying to get a raspberry pi zero w, which I have a spare of lying around to get it to find my nut mini and send a signal over mqtt to my mqtt broker on the HA-setup device.
This all with no luck, and room assistant is alsno not working.
I hope someone has some ideas to get this working or some best practises maby ?
I have been trying to get my nut3 to connect to built in LE component, this component, Pycom, I haven’t been successful would like to know more about your esp32 solution.
It’s quite simple. I use the OpenMqttGateway running on a esp32 or esp8266+bluetooth module (hc-10 i guess). I had to mod a few lines* of the code so the OpenMqttGateway spits the correct mqtt json/topic. Basically the esp32 works a bluetooth scanner and publish to a topic the ID/MAC of the devices it finds. Then I use the MQTT_ROOM component of the HA to know where the tag is. ah… each esp32 publish to his “room” topic, like “home/BTtoMQTT/room/hall” or “home/BTtoMQTT/room/garage”, and so on.