I'm a newbie

[crozo5]

Hi first of all, my congratulations for this project. I recently bought an Alpicool fridge for my VW T3 Van. I'm interestting on your project because I wanna control the temperature of my Alpicool anywhere. In my home I use "Home Assistant" for all the subject of home automation (I don't know if you know home assistant), for all my bluetooth sensors I use an ESP32 with ESPHome.

I would like to install your project, but with the readme guide I look pretty lost ... Could you make a guide with all the steps for newbies?

I have a raspberry pi zero that I don't use, do you think it would be good hardware for this?

[johnelliott]

👋 Hi @crozo5, thank you!

Yes, the pi zero will run the daemon just fine. As you can see in the blog post about the project: https://johnelliott.org/blog/reverse-engineering-a-bluetooth-fridge/ I also use the Pi Zero. I also see that home assistant offers a homekit controller so perhaps the project will work without any updates.

Once we get a few more people running the software we can write up a newbie guide, but for now it makes sense to just help you get set up directly.

[crozo5]

👋 Hi @crozo5, thank you!

Yes, the pi zero will run the daemon just fine. As you can see in the blog post about the project: https://johnelliott.org/blog/reverse-engineering-a-bluetooth-fridge/ I also use the Pi Zero. I also see that home assistant offers a homekit controller so perhaps the project will work without any updates.

Once we get a few more people running the software we can write up a newbie guide, but for now it makes sense to just help you get set up directly. Send me an email, address in this gist to hide it a from web indexing: https://gist.github.com/johnelliott/cd84cd58d508518e9b7a0a1c0ffa6ae8 and I can help you get set up and try this out on your fridge.

I bought the fridge today and they have yet to send it to me. I will try to install it on my own when my vacation is over, if I have problems I will send you an email to see if you can give me a hand. Thank you.

[steveuk71]

Hi @johnelliott , I am looking to use my pi to monitor the Fridge temperature so I can display on a status screen in my VW Camper. I have some python code that uses bleak to read BLE information from Victron Solar devices. I am struggling to understand this code though, can you describe at a high level? I can find the device, and connect to it using python and bleakclient. What is the workflow then? do you need to send a string to the Write Interface writeableFridgeUUID = "00001235-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb", and then read back from read interface readeableFridgeUUID = "00001236-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb" to get the current temp. Any pointers would be much appreciated.

[bohamad90]

Hello! This is what i was looking for since long time! My Alpicool fridge is the only device which is not integrated to my smart camper setup, the thing is i did not understand the code "i'm not advanced", i really wish if this code can be converted to homeassistant directly to make it easier to expose it to homekit or any other way to control.

[pater79]

I am also interested in integrating it into Home Assistant. Has anyone achieved it? I'm a little newbie but I'll try to learn with you. Thank you very much, my congratulations

[pater79]

¡Hola! ¡Esto es lo que estaba buscando desde hace mucho tiempo! Mi refrigerador Alpicool es el único dispositivo que no está integrado a la configuración de mi autocaravana inteligente. El problema es que no entendí el código (no soy avanzado). Realmente me gustaría que este código se pueda convertir directamente a HomeAssistant para que sea más fácil exponerlo a HomeKit o cualquier otra forma de control.

Hello!! you managed to integrate the Alpicool refrigerator with Home Assistant. Any information is welcome. thank you so much,