Reading BLE beacon packets

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New HA user; recently fell down the HA rabbit hole and loving it! Currently running HA on a RPi 4, 8GB.

I have several BLE beacons scattered around the house that transmit temperature and humidity every 10 seconds in their advertising packets. Several different types, but these are the main beacons I use: BLE Sensor Beacon / Tag

Until now I have been using a NodeRed app to decode the payload from each beacon and display the data on a NodeRed dashboard. Want to move it all into HA.

I have been able to get NodeRed running on HA and import my code. I have a ZEXMTE BT-505 (RTL8761BU) USB Bluetooth Adapter which is a known working adaptor based on the Realtek chipset but not sure how to get it set up and configured to see the packets and make the info available to NodeRed on HA.

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Hi @_tonycoffee,

Would you mind sharing your decoding algorithm, so that we might be able to include it in the Theengs Gateway Home Assistant Add-on, and @Ernst into ble-monitor, so you would be able to have the decoded temperature and humidity directly in HA?

Thanks