Ah, brilliant!
I’ve also set up the ESP32 ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy, but it’s not clear to me what and where I need to configure, or if the devices are visible on the proxy. It’s only been added to Home Assistant, and I don’t think it’s doing anything. By the way, it’s located 1 metre away from the Fingerbot, while my Raspberry Pi 3 is 5 metres away.
The process of flashing ESPHome for the proxy was agonising on Windows. Not at all simple - actually, quite the opposite. It can’t be done in WSL2 because it doesn’t support USB, and the flash must be done via USB, etc, etc.
Also, now, the ESPHome OTA firmware update on Home Assistant is always a 30-minute ordeal.
I don’t know what your experiences are like and what does your ESPHome config file look like?
Mine looks like this:
esphome:
name: esp32-bt-proxy
esp32:
board: esp32dev
framework:
type: esp-idf
# Enable logging
logger:
# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
password: ""
ota:
password: ""
wifi:
ssid: "---"
password: "---"
esp32_ble_tracker:
scan_parameters:
interval: 1100ms
window: 1100ms
bluetooth_proxy:
active: true
It would mean a lot if you could check your .yaml file for BTProxy and tell me where I’m making mistake.
It’s been 2 months, and the ESPHome just sits there doing nothing.
When I look at its log, it definitely doesn’t detect any BLE devices…
I’ve just flashed my ESP32 using the site, no modification or tuning. I don’t know how HA Bluetooth subsystem chose a way to connect the device.
My HA runs on an old AMD x64 based mini-PC with built-in Bluetooth adapter. When I setup soil moisture sensor which is in 15 meters from PC and in 5 meters from ESP32 proxy, HA connects it via proxy.
I have the same problem. I have BTProxy setup and running without issues but it doesn’t seem to actually do anything.
In my case I have builtin bluetooth on the PC running Home Assistant but it isn’t detected at all by Hassio (likely a bluetooth driver issue) PLUS the BTProxy (which is running fine).
I wonder if we need to have a working BT dongle besides the BTProxy for it to actually work?
As far as I know - no. During development of the integration, sometime the virtual computer with HA wasn’t connected to the BT adapter, but a device connected via proxy continued to work properly.
hi, can we add also the device below? it get’s discovered but ends in a communication error because the device type is not compatible ( “category”: “sfkzq”,)
“category”: “sfkzq”,
“category_name”: “Water valve controller”,
“create_time”: 1683009867,
“gateway_id”: “”,
“icon”: “smart/icon/ay15662905541765SKtA/e224728a22bc95a6a30670dd4abf6422.png”,
“id”: “bf279flbwkdubwz3”,
“ip”: “”,
“lat”: “44.4500”,
“local_key”: “790fbfd9b179ddad”,
“lon”: “25.9700”,
“model”: “TTV102B”,
“name”: “valve gate”,
“online”: false,
“owner_id”: “152082xxx”,
“product_id”: “e1poaiwa”,
“product_name”: “Valve Controller”,
“sub”: false,
“time_zone”: “+03:00”,
“update_time”: 1683009895,
“uuid”: “8fd6e7f42043190e”
Struggling to set this up through esphome Bluetooth proxies, works fine when its in range of the BT adapter plugged in to my HomeAssistant, but goes offline when i try and reach it through a proxy. (Also fills the logs with lots of errors that should probably be trapped by the integration)
Error setting up entry CubeTouch II 1D4F4D for tuya_ble
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bleak_retry_connector/__init__.py", line 344, in establish_connection
await client.connect(
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/bluetooth/wrappers.py", line 253, in connect
wrapped_backend = self._async_get_best_available_backend_and_device(manager)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/bluetooth/wrappers.py", line 355, in _async_get_best_available_backend_and_device
raise BleakError(
bleak.exc.BleakError: No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address DC:23:4F:1D:4F:4D was found
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/config_entries.py", line 387, in async_setup
result = await component.async_setup_entry(hass, self)
File "/config/custom_components/tuya_ble/__init__.py", line 44, in async_setup_entry
await device.initialize()
File "/config/custom_components/tuya_ble/tuya_ble/tuya_ble.py", line 272, in initialize
await self.update()
File "/config/custom_components/tuya_ble/tuya_ble/tuya_ble.py", line 312, in update
await self._send_packet(TuyaBLECode.FUN_SENDER_DEVICE_STATUS, bytes())
File "/config/custom_components/tuya_ble/tuya_ble/tuya_ble.py", line 843, in _send_packet
await self._ensure_connected()
File "/config/custom_components/tuya_ble/tuya_ble/tuya_ble.py", line 593, in _ensure_connected
client = await establish_connection(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bleak_retry_connector/__init__.py", line 420, in establish_connection
await wait_for_disconnect(device, backoff_time)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bleak_retry_connector/bluez.py", line 286, in wait_for_disconnect
await asyncio.sleep(min_wait_time)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/asyncio/tasks.py", line 605, in sleep
return await future
asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError
There is a HACS solution, finally!
Out of curiosity, has anyone noticed some Tuya devices popup in their notifications after installing ha_tuya_ble? I have a device appearing but can’t find it anywhere… It’s not in my cloud either.
Hi, there are hard limitations for BLE proxy, first of all to number of devices which could be connected simultaneously. Have you tried to restart the proxy?
It might be Tuya gateway with BLE support, mine one also appears as discovered, but it’s impossible to connect it.
To my knowledge I don’t have a BLE Proxy… This mysterious devices still needs to be uncovered but I haven’t figured out yet… 
It may also be a device of some of your neighbors.
Yeah, I thought of that also… But it is hard to verify… I’m not in an apartment, I’m in a house and since I have a BT-Proxy in my garage, signal coverage can probably reach my neighboors… Good one!
@PlusPlus-ua
Thank you for profividng this integration. I have a small problem:
I have just received my Fingerbot Plus and already had an ESP32-bleproxy going for other products.
HA detected the device automatically but when trying to configure the one-off Tuya access it says no such device is registered on Tuya Cloud…??
I have checked my Tuya-IOT credentials in the integration against the IOT platform authorisations and they appear correct.
The device does appear to have been registered correctly with Tuya Cloud…
Should I perhaps wait a bit longer for the new device to “propagate” through the Tuya system or do you think something is not right with my access to the Tuya IOT platform ?
Try to reload the Tuya integration
Thanks.
Just tried to reload main Tuya integration , followed by HA restart…nope.no luck
Tuya BLE integration is still telling me that no such device is registered…
I hope that the device is part of the supported ones in the TuyaBLE integration as listed here: FingerBot Plus- Its Device ID seems to start with “bf6952bl” so it is not clear to me whether that might be the issue if this id relates to the product_ids listed as supported:
I think it might well be…
Yes. Confirmation: that’s the one I just received this morning…same vendor/number of reviews etc…
Now, saying that, the fact that the integration detects it as potential tuyaBLE device is a good sign that it can be made to work…?
Just for info, I checked that connection to the Europe data centre was working by changing the main Tuya integration to U.S. and of course it refused to connect so that tells me that at least I should have a working server connection when using the intended Europe server.
I also checked what was happening when reloading the TuyaBLE integration and it makes a call to “openapi.tuyaeu.com” which seems sensible since when pointing to the U.S. it makes a call to “openapi.tuyaus.com”
I am not certain what is not quite working and will try to re-add some of the other tuya devices that I had deleted (only wanted local control) to see if those would be registered correctly…just incase.
I saw that my Tuya CLoud “IOT core” API component had expired…?? .perhaps I need to create a new project to get some trial API time…let’s see…
I think my issue is more than likely going to be this “IOT core” that expires after just 1 month…Mine had been created back in Nov2022 -
See:Unreachable Tuya devices since last couple updates · Issue #91654 · home-assistant/core · GitHub
So I have now applied for a 6 months extension and woud hope that this will resolve the issue if granted…
