Have installed haos_ova (8.5 or 9.0,dev) on an VM in an Unraid server with an attached XDO USB bluetooth radio extender, with the hopes of gathering temp and humidity data from a Thermopro TP357. HA seems to see the bluetooth radio (comes up as an integration), but I’m not sure what to do from here.
I think that TP357 is BLE (which I think means passive scanning is needed). I found this page on ble monitoring which seems to indicate newer versions of HA might be able integrate with the TP357 automatically? (…or maybe for now I can install some extra software to get it integrated?)
Not sure what to try next, I feel like I may be missing something. Any pointers welcome.
somehow get the directory custom_components from that other system into the HA instance directory /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/ (I used scp from the HA instance)
On the HA instance, you should now have the dir /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/custom_components/ble_monitor with all the code you cloned from github
reboot HA and now there should be an integration called “Bluetooth Low Energy Monitor”
long press the button on the back of the sensor (it will show the bluetooth logo on the front) and it should show up as a device in HA and display entity values for temp and humidity.
I checked the “Use active scan in stead of passive scan (affects battery)” on the BLE config panel. No idea if I needed it.
I think this will all become unnecessary after ble_monitor becomes a standard part of HA in the near future.
so 4th bullet - on a different system, are you saying another instance of HA? i have my ble tracker up and running - currently pulling one of the other device stats. wanted to add the TP357. i found on there it referenced a bind key but the model looks off a bit. did you run into this? i tried adding bind key and it still does not ingest into the system. i do see it come up in the scan logs though.
thanks
As of Dec 2023, TP357 was discovered by HA automatically immediately after batteries were inserted into TP357. I could add it to an area and start saving data.
In the screenshots below, ATC xxxx are Xiaomi Mijia LYWSD03MMC thermometer-hygrometers.
However, I checked history in HA after a few hours, and I see that while both temperature and humidity monitoring seem to work in general, the graph jumps to hundreds or thousands of degress temperature and hundreds of percent humidity. I wonder if this is a HA issue with decoding TP357 data, or the device sends invalid data.
