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WeekendWarrior1 / powerpal_ble

Collection of code, tools and documentation for data retrieval over BLE from your Powerpal
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Finding PowerPal bluetooth address #2

Closed dogmachine closed 1 year ago

dogmachine commented 1 year ago

G'day mate,

Thanks for your great work, I have gotten this going and it is working a treat.

For the benefit of others, I just wanted to point out that unlike your example esphome yaml skeleton, my powerpal lives in a bluetooth address space of F9:D1:0F:00:00:00 rather than the DF:5C:55:00:00:00 address space mentioned.

If you are another punter like me trying to get this to work, and your powerpal does not have the bluetooth address listed on the device or on the packaging, an easy way to find it is to stand near the powerpal with an android phone and add a new bluetooth device. You'll see "powerpal-somethingblahblah" appear. Connect to it, and then once that is completed, view the connection. The bluetooth address is listed.

Additionally, if your computer is close enough to the powerpal, just flash the esp32 with this repo's code and the esp32's local console will display blue output from "esp32_ble_tracker" which will list detected bluetooth addresses. My computers were nowhere near the PowerPal, so I found using an android phone easier.

Once again, thanks for making available your work so the rest of us could enjoy it, you're a top bloke.

Cheers.

dogmachine commented 1 year ago

Wasn't really an issue, just no wiki, and wanted to leave breadcrumbs for others.