being completely new to the eSPhome world, I’ve been experimenting with 2 Olimex dev boards, mentioned in the Release party, and they seem to work ok, except for the fact I can not integrate them into the Esphome dashboard (because of Lan vs wireless issue, different topic)
Besides that, they are a pain to the eye of course, because of no housing, and terrible bright leds flashing (4 of them…). Have to switch them off via the POE port during the night… Which isnt very helpful when relying on the temp reading
So, I was wondering if there are useful off the shelf devices we can integrate directly into HA/EspHome that have a decent housing, so we can put it in the open, and that can act as Bluetooth proxy at the same time.
I’ve ordered a few thermometers/hygrometers and the BT integrations all work as expected, quite immediate discovery and sensor readings.
Because of that, I’d love to expand on that and cover the whole house in a nice BT ‘Mesh’, preferably Lan or even better POE devices.
Would be nice if we could have some sort of list that could help us expand on those ESPhome devices.
I did of course browse https://esphome.io but that doesnt help a beginner like me a lot. Huge amounts of DIY devices seems very cool, but for now, not what I am looking for.
I’ve ordered a few of these cheap Xiaomi BT thermometers/hygrometers and an ESP32 board to use as a BT proxy. I somehow thought that they would be supported directly now but HA only show me the new BT device, I add it, and then I see its signal strength - no temp nor humidity. Is that all really?
I know I can flash the thermometers once I have received the ESP32 board and will do that to get additional features.
Marius, would you mind listing the BT devices you bought and which sensors they report to HA? I’ll start with mine:
Brand: Xiaomi
Device info: LYWSD03MMC
HA name: “Temperature/Humidity Sensor 135C”
Price: from €6 (AliExpress)
Sensors (built-in): temperature, humidity, battery status, signal strength
Sensors in HA: signal strength
ESPhome support: yes, see 7th device on Xiaomi Mijia BLE Sensors — ESPHome
I bought https://www.amazon.nl/gp/product/B086YX1MKB and Amazon.nl thermometers, and they are immediately recognized under their respective integrations (Govee and Switchbot), provided you have a BT adapter working ofc and the Bluetooth integration installed.
Also ordered a https://www.amazon.nl/gp/product/B08GC2JX1Q/ which is recognized as a HomeKit device, VOCOlinc door sensor from the Release party demonstration by Nick.
This is an ‘active’ device, and not yet supported on the BT proxies, so it relies on your main (and closest) Bt receiver adapter. Which in my case is the attic, so signal is -98db returned that and will await the support for active devices in core HA.
thanks!
I should probably have mentioned that Nick and Paulus explicitly advised us to use Lan devices, because of the heavy traffic those BT proxies would have to process.
I will check put all of these links, and hope to find some that can do that.
appreciated!
That probably depends on the amount of bluetooth thingys floating around. The main reason to use a esp32 with lan is also not primarily of some “heavy traffic” but due to the fact that esp32’s have only one antenna that is shared for wifi and bluetooth. As by design they can not use the antenna at the same time it’s a shared resource and that can indeed cause a bottle neck
This device here is a POE device with a esp32 inside
changed the topic title to get things narrowed down a bit…
looking for POE devices, or at least Lan
right, so not looking for more dev boards (they are not off the shelf, with a nice professional looking case), and the others are not so plenty I fear… havent found a single one tbh.
like before (with the old topic) I just browsed https://templates.blakadder.com/ and found this (possible) candidates which come with case and ethernet (the z- part can be ignored):
I didn’t found a poe device with a case on @blakadder’s site but it shouldn’t be very hard to just pack a random esp32 ethernet poe board in a case (which should not be metal) you like to get the job done.
Also there is no need to have these device visible actually - so maybe even a “ugly” case does the trick if the device is well hidden. For example I have one of my esphome nodes (which also does act as a ble receiver) just hidden in the wall were it is not visible
EDIT: Looks like m5 features the device you are looking for?
Hi Daniel
I just read your old post and wanted to ask if you got the Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC sensors working.
Here are instructions on how to integrate this into HA:
I did it over the holidays and my sensors are now working fine. 5 values, Temperature, Humidity, Battery, Signal Strength, VoltageBest regards
Patrick
Did you get this to work? I just got the GL-S10 rev 2.1. Flashing works, but then nothing happens. Not even log output in the console… I think they may have changes hardware, but not sure…
Initially, I think so, yes. It appears as an ESP32 device in Home Assistant but I do not know how to test whether any Bluetooth devices are actually connecting through it.
My router has a “traffic analyser” which reports zero traffic for the GL-S10.
Trying a cheeky tag of @blakadder in the hope they can point us in the right direction.
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anyways for other esp32 based plugs like this ones for example:
part can be ignored):
