I’m trying to get Xiaomi BLE Temperature and humidity sensor connected.
I fail on the first step: BLE scanning in order to get MAC address of the sensor. What should be done before that? I have tried both of the commands in terminal but either one of the commands are not found.
Side note about the sensor: Temperature is quite exact but humidity is unfortunately about 5% too high. The sensor is very sensitive: Just taking it on hand the values start changing -> Averaging is needed if I ever get the connection working…
just got the same device yesterday and looking on how to scan it. I tried hcitool and bluetoothctl command but they dont seem to be installed in my HASSIO.
It didn’t work for me. If you got android phone, try Bluetooth scanner app from play store. It shows the mac instantly. I did not have any problems after that. Well, the Xiaomi sensor is not very accurate but no problems with the integration.
Thanks, i will give that a try. I was about to go down the esphome with esp32 way (bought the board for this purpose) however if i can get the Pi to do it, then it’s better. So I can use the esp32 for something else.
i got it working, thanks
i found the BLE temp and humidity sensor to be quite accurate. I have the sensor side by side with my xiaomi airpurifier, not too much of a difference.
hey just wondering, i was able to scan and retrieve the information from the xiaomi sensor. but then it stopped.
have you ever experience that? i cant get it to update the temp/humidity now.
cheers
