Passive BLE Monitor integration (Xiaomi Mijia BLE MiBeacon monitor)

Magalex · April 8, 2020, 12:02am

Home Assistant -> Configuration -> Entities, search by name and click on entity which you want to change.

morrydavis · April 8, 2020, 1:04am

Have you ever seen this on my rpi console this message just keeps scrolling across the screen bluetooth hci0 Frame reassembly failed (-84) also seeing SCO packet for unknown connection handle and advertising data len corrected the later two are much fewer

morrydavis · April 8, 2020, 2:26am

One more question is it possible to get the battery level from the LYWSD03MMC
again thanks for all your help

Terp · April 8, 2020, 8:46am

Hi

I have 1x LYWSDCGQ and 2x HHCCJCY01.

The round LYWSDCGQ works fine, no issues.
But my 2 HHCCJCY01 (mi flora) dosnt, and im not sure what im missing.

If i do a scan on the host, i can find it:

[NEW] Device C4:7C:8D:61:FF:B9 Flower mate

But mitemp only finds 1 device (temp sensor):

2020-04-08 10:42:20 DEBUG (SyncWorker_1) [custom_components.mitemp_bt.sensor] Finished. Parsed: 1415 hci events, 1 xiaomi devices.

Configuration:

sensor:
  - platform: mitemp_bt
    decimals: 1

They worked fine with the old bluethooth intergration in HA with the following:

sensor:
      - platform: miflora
        mac: 'C4:7C:8D:61:FF:B9'
        median: 2
        adapter: hci0

(which is removed from the running conf)

Assistance Requested

Magalex · April 8, 2020, 12:16pm

This is a common problem with the bluetooth subsystem on raspberry.

is it possible to get the battery level from the LYWSD03MMC

Of course, there is a special option for this - batt_entities. Everything is described in the documentation.

Magalex · April 8, 2020, 12:20pm

Please look at this post. Often all problems with these sensors are solved by their activation in the official application and firmware update.

morrydavis · April 8, 2020, 6:08pm

Thanks I see where I went wrong when adding to lovelace I used the same nameing convention I was just using ‘b’ instead of ‘batt’. whats your knowledge on other bluetooth stuff I have some xiaomi window/door sensors and I used a usb bluetooth dongle ‘Nortek’ but a couple seem to be just out of range any way to increase bluetooth signal strength?

Magalex · April 8, 2020, 6:48pm

As far as I know, door and window sensors in the Xiaomi ecosystem are ZigBee-devices, you cannot receive data from them using a bluetooth dongle.

All my knowledge of the Xiaomi ecosystem (regarding bluetooth) is limited to the list of devices supported by my component.

Some methods for expanding bluetooth coverage are described in our FAQ.

Terp · April 9, 2020, 8:54am

Hi thanks for this tip, it worked after updating the miflora hardware.

For any having the same issue as me, im running a chinese “locked” version of the miflora, so i wasnt able to update though the normal “flower care” app, eventhough setting it to china.
So i installed the “mi home” app, in settings set it to “china” and then i was able to pair it within mi-home, and update it

Thanks again!

morrydavis · April 9, 2020, 5:33pm

my mistake it is a ZigBee USB controler but while checking logs I found Log Details (ERROR)

Logger: custom_components.mitemp_bt.sensor
Source: custom_components/mitemp_bt/sensor.py:654
First occurred: April 7, 2020, 8:21:13 PM (912 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:22:36 AM

token: 3e2a0201
nonce: 2bfb0d38c1a45b05eb65a604
encrypted_payload: 930e003c6765a6043e2a0201
cipherpayload: 930e003c67
Decryption failed for A4C1380DFB2B, decrypted payload is None
Should I worry about this

Magalex · April 9, 2020, 6:02pm

This is a decryption error message.
As a rule, it says that the key specified in the encryptors option is not suitable for decryption.

That is, you have the wrong key for the sensor with the address A4C1380DFB2B.

Before you take action, make sure that this error continues to be repeated at the moment. Maybe it was relevant only during your experiments?

Magalex · April 12, 2020, 1:15pm

0.6.5 version released.

Changes:

support for JQJCY01YM Xiaomi Honeywell Formaldehyde Sensor
(about 50 messages per minute total: temperature + humidity + formaldehyde + battery level)
decimals: 1 by default (instead of decimals: 2 )
some multithreading optimizations

morrydavis · April 13, 2020, 5:42pm

All my sensors are working fine but I don’t know if it is related but all my Amazon echo devices became unavailable so I deleted the integration for Alexa_media and redid it but none of my echo devices were discovered

Magalex · April 13, 2020, 6:00pm

As far as I can see, this integration does not use bluetooth, it is a cloud-based integration. Therefore, I think the problem is not related to the component discussed here.

Magalex · April 13, 2020, 6:28pm

BUT!
If the problem appeared after updating the component to 0.6.4, then update it again to 0.6.5.
Almost immediately after 0.6.4, I released 0.6.5, which fixes problems with HA loading on some systems. The problem is very strange, was absent on my systems, but several users wrote about the problem at once, so make sure you have 0.6.5.

xavjul · April 14, 2020, 11:29am

Thanks a lot, you helped me on solving the issue !! Very appreciated ! Thanks

watermarkhu · April 15, 2020, 8:54am

Just to make sure, there is nothing device specific that needs to be added to the configuration for HHCCJCY01 (MiFlora)? I have tried settings this up multiple times but no sensors are detected. I followed steps 2-6 carefully (as step 1 is not needed and not possible? on Hass.io)

So far, I was only successful with the MiFlora integration.

Magalex · April 15, 2020, 2:11pm

You don’t need to add anything special to the configuration for MiFlora sensor.
Most often, MiFlora does not work out of the box for two reasons:

it is not added to the official app;
old firmware;

Pay attention to this post and further on the link in it.

watermarkhu · April 15, 2020, 8:26pm

Updating the firmware through the MiFlora app solved it! I connected via the MiHome app and there was no mention of an update. Thanks for the response.

acme · April 16, 2020, 8:52am

Hello. I am using the add-on for quite sometime now and thank you for that!
In the last 1 or 2 weeks I face problem of sensors being unavailable.
I have HHCCJCY01 and LYWSDCGQ type of sensors.
What can I do to see what is wrong? I haven’t cahnged anything in sensor.yaml file

  - platform: mitemp_bt
    rounding: True
    decimals: 1
    period: 60

And just to be sure let me ask somethingmore in order to clarify it.
For HHCCJCY01 what should I have in yaml file? Only the above is enough for both HHCCJCY01 and LYWSDCGQ or I should add the below

  - platform: miflora

or

  - platform: miflora
    mac: 'X:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX'
    name: Mi Flora
    force_update: false
    monitored_conditions:
      - moisture
      - light
      - temperature
      - conductivity
      - battery