Xiaomi BLE, Bluetooth support, ble_monitor

Third party integrations
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Hello and thank you for great product.
And thank you for adding easy bluetooth support in ha.

I have a suggestion to make it more great, all devices you add to HA should have behind the curtain some kind of UUID that map to the hardware layer addresses like MAC address and so on.

And the UUID maps to your own HA name. The mapping goes like this.

MAC-ADDRESS–>UUID—>Your own HA name.

C4:17:FE:F3:1F:6D ----> a09092d6-e562-4b53-b32d-600d51b93c86 ---> Livingroom Temp Sensor 1

You can then rename the devices what ever you like even with the same name.
But behind the curtain the logging and so on goes to the correct device.

What happend to me now i have two Xiaomi Temp Hum Sensors, and the mapping to the values go to wrong deivce. What happend that the HA name’s of the device collide.

And when i add the device the dialog box shuld also print out the hardware layer address like MAC, so i can easy distinguish the two devices and name them correctly. And add the correct encypt key to the correct device.

Thanks

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Adding the Mac address to the device info and the config flow is already on the todo list of the devs. Hopefully in the next .9 release.

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Thank you for letting me know.