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esphome / bluetooth-proxies

This repo hosts known, tested devices that can serve as Bluetooth proxies for Home Assistant.
https://esphome.io/projects?type=bluetooth
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What are the step to start from Scratch? #73

Closed yyakauleu closed 1 year ago

yyakauleu commented 1 year ago

Hello, I am new to this. spend all day trying to start somewhere, but not good tutorial or instructions.

How to use YAML? Is it for ArdruinoIDE or PlatformIO? .INI file should have code for the device. What do you get it?

Literally spent 5 hours, and still not progress.

Anything helps.

Thank you,

balloob commented 1 year ago

I have no idea what you're talking about. This issue tracker is for issues about ready-made firmware for Bluetooth Proxies.

yyakauleu commented 1 year ago

I want to use bluetooth proxies. How to use it? Any instructions?

I am new to the space.

seems like i need to use"esp32-generic.yaml" but where and how?

raoulbhatia commented 1 year ago

@howchik a real life usage example for GL.iNet GL-S10 can be found here https://blakadder.com/gl-s10/ . Please note that there are some issues and i think this is the reason it is no longer listed at https://esphome.github.io/bluetooth-proxies/

If you want to build/adapt the configuration yourself, you can check the yaml files in this git repository as well as the documentation here https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html

In short:

  1. Install esphome - either directly, or pull a docker container.
  2. Copy the yaml file from this repository and save i.e. as your_device.yaml.
  3. Adjust it to your environment (i.e. passwords, re-configure to pure WiFi if you want to, etc.).
  4. Use esphome run your_device.yaml (direct install) or docker run -it --rm -vpwd:/config esphome/esphome:latest run /config/your_device.yaml [1] (Docker version untested by me)

[1] Adapted from https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/3682#issuecomment-1441373821 thanks @jsimonetti

yyakauleu commented 1 year ago

@raoulbhatia Thank you very much for the instruction! Greatly appriciate your time!

Will follow your examples!