Thanks for your work on this 
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Is fix now live, since 0.56.2 was released 23rd of this month?
They work for me again on 56.2. Think on 56.1 also already!
yes seems to work now =) just loving it.
Followup guestion can I use a external Bluetooth device for better coverage or I’m i stuck using the one on the raspberry 3?
My system was missing gatttool. So I compiled it:
- Download bluez
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.9.tar.gz - Untar the archive:
tar xvf bluez-5.9.tar.gz - Go to the new directory
cd bluez-5.9 - Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gcc make libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev - Execute
./configure - Run the command
make - Copy gatttool
sudo cp attrib/gatttool /usr/bin/
Now Mi Flora works.
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you are obviously not using hass.io
but that’s basically how the temporary fix works until the host OS is being released in a new version
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No, I am not. I am using osmc.
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hi, could you explain how to add the mi flora sensor in the config?
- “hcitool lescan” via SSH is not working (command not found)
- “devicetracker.bluetoothle_tracker” is still not working on hass.io
running 56.2. including @sharukins fix
thanks 
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you have to connect to the host, not the home assistant docker.
use the debugging access
Concerning the le tracker component: I don’t know, I don’t use it and no one provided logs
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perfect, thanks a lot! this worked for me 
directly after reboot HASS has to collect values before it shows anything, I suppose it’s working right now, because for me 0.57 works absolutely fine
Agreed. Working for me.
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Hello !
It seems not working for me neither in v0.57.2, still ‘unknown’ status a day after reboot.
Have you guys enable BLE tracker to get it working ? Or should the following conf be enough ?
- platform: miflora
mac: 'my:MAC;address:here'
name: Orchidée
Is your Mi Flora far from your RPi ? Bluetooth plugin is installed but I don’t know if BLE range could reach ~10m
Thanks
I’ve enabled the bluetooth bit from Hassio and am running Home Assistant 0.57.2 and they all seem to be working. My sensors are all within ~10m with the furthest out being around 9 or 10m away from my pi. The rest of them are fairly close. Might want to move the sensor closer just for testing.
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The Bluetooth Tracker component is still broken, but Mi Flora should work. For me, I have my Mi Floras within 3m of range around my RasPi, except for one which is located ~4m through a thick wall. The latter one fails reasonably often to update.
Have you checked your logs for errors?
I went a different route to solve this, and put hassbian on a Pi Zero.
I didn’t run any special code versions, just checked that the MiFlora mac addresses were detected with
sudo hcitool lescan
Which they were without any extra settings on my part.
Setup the miflora as normal on the pi zero hassbian:
- platform: miflora
mac: 'c4:7c:8a:6c:3b:69'
force_update: true
cache_value: 600
name: miflora_1
Then in my main hassio install, I used the rest sensor to get the data via the Hass api on the Pi Zero: e.g.
- platform: rest
resource: http://192.168.135.27:8123/api/states/sensor.miflora_1_moisture
name: miflora_1_soil_moisture
value_template: '{{ value_json.state }}'
unit_of_measurement: "%"
I’ve no dropouts, and haven’t had to maintain anything on the Pi Zero - half the time I forget that’s how I’m connecting to the MiFloras.
Anyone else connect to them this way?
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anyone got any answer to this ?
External USB or just the internal on the RPi3?