spitfire

spitfire , 1 month ago

Is there any alternative to ESPresence I can add to existing ESPHome devices? Some solution building around private BLE (which I did set up, but I’m not using) and stuff? I have quite a few ESPHome based devices doing their work and not using Bluetooth around my home.

spitfire , 1 month ago

That wouldn’t really work for treacking Apple devices since they randomize their MAC addresses. Which is why I’ve added them using private ble integration in HA. It is able to detect their presence (or lack of it) via my ESPHome devices which are set up as Bluetooth proxies. What I would like though is know which room are they in - I have an ESP32 device in pretty much every room, and I wish I could leverage them without adding dedicated ESPresence ones.

spitfire , 2 months ago

Tuya Zigbee devices send information so often some coordinators have issues depending on their firmware - I had it on my CC2652P7 based coordinator and had to test coordinator firmware to find out what the issue was.

spitfire , 2 months ago

Not HACS - Addons. The ones that run in containers

spitfire , 3 months ago

I’d say it’s not that trivial and makes you the maintainer of your add-ons. Of course it gives you more flexibility, but you do have to manage them/update yourself.