Hi there, I have bought the Vent-Axia Sense (I believe it’s called PureAir Sense in some other markets) bathroom fan. It has a Bluetooth interface. Would be a perfect candidate for Home Assistant integration. I wonder if anyone else has looked into it. There is another thread on Svara, but that integration doesn’t seem to recognize my fan. Anyone any clue?
UPD: I started the discussion with the author of the Svara integration here: How to add fan manually · Issue #49 · eriknn/ha-pax_ble · GitHub. If someone was interested in joining efforts, that would be great, as I have very limited software skills and none in the realm of Bluetooth so far.
I’ve got one of these and would like to integrate with HA to boost when humidity goes over a certain threshold.
I’ve got an ESP running as a BLE proxy via ESPHome, and can see it’s picking something up as I now have an iBeacon found in my devices.
I’ve grabbed the AirSense Pure’s MAC address from my phone, but it’s not connecting. I’m also not seeing a known_devices.yaml file being created so not sure whether the BLE proxy is 100% right.
Not yet. I spent these days trying to get information from Vent-Axia (no luck, they don’t share API), and also double-checking if going for Svara could still be a better way due to existing integration for HA. I concluded that Svensa is still the way, since Svara doesn’t have a smell sensor. If it works (didn’t test yet), it’s a useful feature for toilets, for when humidity doesn’t change.
Question to you though. Why do you need integration with HA for humidity? Svensa has a built-in humidity sensor.
Short update. The unit I’ve installed seems to lose Bluetooth connection and require power cycle to be able to connect. (Not yet connected to Home Assistant, it’s with their original app.) I am testing a fan from another vendor, will also get in touch with Vent Axia, but so far they have been unhelpful, so low expectations here.