Is there a good way to use Bluetooth LE tracking in HA?

[nightwidow]

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 ?

[PianSom]

Have a look at this thread

A new version is due imminently.

[jcuccia]

I use the pieces described by in this Bit-River (4th messagein this thread).

Bluetooth presence detection without Raspberry Pi 3

I think you could do it on a stand alone PI using room assistant and FIND as both use MQTT also zanzito integrates with FIND See here … Certainly food for thought

[Wim_L]

I’m running this custom component for the detection of my ble gigaset g-tags.
It has been very accurate and haven’t got any software failures yet.

BLE custom component

Hi all, for those who have the problems with BLE tracking, the component included in Home Assistant has been reported to have some issues. So I tried to fix the component creating a custom one. Just create a file bluetooth_le_tracker.py in the custom_components/device_tracker folder and copy the following content into it: """ Tracking for bluetooth low energy devices. """ import logging import voluptuous as vol from homeassistant.helpers.event import track_point_in_utc_time from homeassist…

[clyra]

Hi,

I also use Nut mini but the detection is done using ESP32 and openmqttgateway.

[jimpower]

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.

[clyra]

Hi,

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.

[chemistry]

i am also interested in your solution. Can you post a tutorial and your code that you are using?

Would be great as i am a total noob in these things…

Thanks!!