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mKeRix / room-assistant

Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level
https://www.room-assistant.io
MIT License
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Support for devices without hcitool #187

Open AngellusMortis opened 4 years ago

AngellusMortis commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

hcitool is now deprecated and will likely start getting removed in future versions of Raspbian and other OSes. It is already removed from the official Manjaro ARM RPI4 image.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=b1eb2c4cd057624312e0412f6c4be000f7fc3617

Describe the solution you'd like

A solution that does not require the deprecated tools.

Describe alternatives you've considered

For now, it is possible to still get hcitool and the other deprecated tools with the --enable-deprecated flag at compile time. For Manjaro/Archlinux ARM this means just installing the bluez-utils-compat AUR package, but that may not be a viable solution forever.

mKeRix commented 4 years ago

I actually stumbled upon this issue while I was working on the Alpine-based Docker image and then tried out the current CLI tool bluetoothctl - unfortunately the implementation for getting the RSSI there didn't allow the use case that room-assistant needs though from what I remember. I agree that we should move away from deprecated packages though. If anyone has an idea on how to achieve the same cc & rssi combination (without having to pair devices!) please do let me know.

paulrbeers commented 4 years ago

Yes please do not require me to pair my device to all my nodes! That was the reason I left Monitor. And whatever the solution is, it has to support both BLE AND Classic as I don't want to have to teach my wife how to start up an iBeacan app every time she restarts her iphone. She barely tollerates my home automation as it is! (that's why I stopped trying to use esp32-mqtt-home).

I used both of those before I came here!

jun3280net commented 4 years ago

@mKeRix - I'm unable to get your app to work for my setup (Linux Mint VM on Win10 Host, with Home Assistant Supervisor running in the Linux Environment - integrated bluetooth). I'm not very conversant in Linux, and trying to figure out how to get this to work with my setup (I tried MONITOR as well and kept getting ("cycling bluetooth hardware on hci0").

That said, I stumbled across a thread regarding bluetootctl and RSSI - which may help : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36607626/how-to-use-bluetoothctl-like-hcitool-lescan-to-report-repeated-proximity-beacons

Cheers thanks for your application