BTHome missing Shelly BLU Motion events

[patriiiiiiiiiick]

The problem

I am using Shelly BLU Motion to switch on some lights and maintain them on. However, I observe that, despite us being there moving around, the lights switch off regularly. While I do find the last motion event in the Shelly app, that event is not listed in the logbook. There is nothing either in the log file.

Do I enable debug logging and report back when it has happened again?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.7.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

BTHome

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bthome

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[jum0n]

Maybe its a bluetooth range issue? Have you enable and tracked your signal strength? If so, what values are typical?

[patriiiiiiiiiick]

Since the event is logged by the Shelly app, a range issue would not explain this missed event.

[Ernst79]

The app is using the Bluetooth radio of your Phone, while home assistant is using the Bluetooth radio of the HA device. So, it can happen that the range between sensor and Phone is ok, but not to your HA Bluetooth radio. Moreover, the Bluetooth radio of your HA machine can interfere with wifi, as the both use 2.4 GHz. Try using an external BT dongle on an USB extension cable or try using a ESPHome Bluetooth proxy device.

[patriiiiiiiiiick]

I beg to disagree: my phone is not connecting with Bluetooth to/from the sensor. The Bluetooth signal can go through 2 paths:

• through the RPi,
• through a Shelly plus device serving as a Bluetooth proxy. The plus device reports events to https://control.shelly.cloud/ which is reflected in the mobile app (some info is also cached on the plus device).

In the past, I had disabled Bluetooth on the RPi to see if it helped, but it didn't.

[jum0n]

It still might be helpful to enable and track what signal strength values are being reported in HA.

[Ernst79]

Ok, didnt know that shelly also works via a shelly plus device. But as said by jum0n, show us the RSSI values in HA. Also check the Bluetooth intergration debug logs, to see is messages arive at all from your sensor's mac address.