BLE Beacon for Home Assistant

All ESP32 boards running MicroPython.
Target audience: MicroPython users with an ESP32 board.
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BLE Beacon for Home Assistant

Post by devnull » Sat Apr 09, 2022 4:52 am

I need to create a BLE Beacon that sends data every 5 seconds, to be used with Home Assistant (HA) BLE Passive Monitor.

https://github.com/custom-components/ble_monitor

I have Jimmo's BLE advertising example running in a loop every 5 seconds, but despite the fact that HA BLE Monitor has discovered several other BLE Beacons, it just cant find the ESP32 that is running in this 5 second advertising loop.

Any suggestions on what the issue might be ??

Many Thanks

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Re: BLE Beacon for Home Assistant

Post by tepalia02 » Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:25 am

Some bugs in the library have been reported here: https://github.com/custom-components/ble_monitor/issues
I think you may get help if you post your issue to the above link.

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Re: BLE Beacon for Home Assistant

Post by devnull » Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:43 am

Thanks, but I have lots of other BLE beacons showing up, it's just the one I created in micropython using Jimmo's sample that is not recognized.

Does anyone have a working example of a BLE sensor beacon that can help me from re-inventing the wheel :-)

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