Closed Patrick010 closed 12 months ago
Will this request be honoured?
Yes, it will, but didnt had time to add this yet. Can take a few more weeks before I have time to add this.
Thanks. No rush, was just wondering 👍
The text sensor has been added to BTHome and the BTHome integration in Home Assistant dev. Will be included in the next release.
Thanks Ernst. Going to give it a try as soon as its available :)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm in the process of integrating a SparkFun NanoBeacon IN100 BLE beacon in to Home Assistant. I have a SHT31 sensor connected to the i2c bus for temperature/humidity readings and am now composing the advertising package. This is somewhat challenging because the i2c SHT31 sensor data is raw and needs to be converted in to a temperature and humidity value using a formula. The data consists of 6 bytes; 2 for temperature + 1 CRC, followed by 2 bytes humidity + 1 CRC. This basically means that each measurement type uses 3 bytes . Since BTHome has no data type for raw data transmission, I need use one that comes closest, in this case 'Counter'. However, the Counter type is limited to 1, 2 or 4 bytes, so I have to chop the 6 bytes up in to chunks and put them back together in HA. It would be a whole lot easier if there were a fixed size (10-20 chars) Raw or Text data type available for transmitting untouched data.
Describe the solution you'd like
A data type of a large enough size suitable for Raw data transmission.
Additional context
I'm convinced that this data type will make life a whole lot easier for many of us.