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Airthings / airthings-ble

Library to control Airthings devices through BLE, primarily meant to be used in Home Assistant.
MIT License
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Airthings via bluetooth proxy #46

Closed ghvader closed 1 month ago

ghvader commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not related to a problem

Describe the solution you'd like Airthings-BLE seems to require a blue tooth adapter, however a HA/esphome Bluetooth proxy doesn't appear to be sufficient.

Additional context instead of requiring a Bluetooth adapter physically connected to an HA instance, can a Bluetooth proxy work instead? (example govee Bluetooth devices work with a proxy)

dxmnkd316 commented 2 months ago

I have one of my Airthings Wave+ on BT proxy. It was too far away from my HA RPi board. The connection was super flaky going through two walls and a floor from across the house. Which... is understandable. I added an m5stack Atom Lite S3 and installed ESPHome on it with BT proxy enabled. Worked flawlessly since then.

LaStrada commented 1 month ago

As mentioned above, if you're using Home Assistant, BLE proxies can be used (ESPHome). However, if you're not using Home Assistant, I’m not aware of any BLE proxies that can be used.