Question: How to pair multiple controllers in different floors

[nunocampos105]

Hello,

Thanks for your hard work ! Very very good!

My house got 3 floors, and i've got controllers on the three floors.

Because my NUC is far away from the other two, how is the best way to pair the devices and after pairing they continue working ?

Should i use a bluetooth HW control for each floor ? Or once they are paired the communication is not done via bluetooth ?

Best Regards and thanks in advanced

[alexcf]

There's another thread here: https://github.com/mduran80/daikin_madoka/issues/7

[duduke]

@alexcf, The linked thread does not cover what @nunocampos105 referred to. I have the same issue: the machine HA is installed on cannot "see" the other Madoka BLE controllers as they are too far away. Is there a way to somehow "bridge" those remote controllers via another device? (ESP32, ESP8266, Pi ZeroW, etc)

[alexcf]

Great question... I've got that issue now :(.

[raypanggh]

Hello,

Thanks for your hard work ! Very very good!

My house got 3 floors, and i've got controllers on the three floors.

Because my NUC is far away from the other two, how is the best way to pair the devices and after pairing they continue working ?

Should i use a bluetooth HW control for each floor ? Or once they are paired the communication is not done via bluetooth ?

Best Regards and thanks in advanced

Either use a long range Bluetooth adapter with a USB extension lead (I found the latter helped massively with connection issues) or if you still have range issues, see https://github.com/mduran80/pymadoka - install this and use an MQTT thermostat with pymadoka-mqtt

[mduran80]

It should be possible to bridge “easily” using a Pi Zero and the pymadoka library setup as a daemon with the MQTT feature and WiFi. I wrote the code precisely to address this situation, although it is not my setup.

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[mduran80]

Hi!

Your setup is quite complex comparing to mine. All the comms are made via bluetooth, so the controller has to be close to the thermostat. In my case, the NUC is in the same room.

In your situation, I would think of some smaller device to implement a gateway from BT to WiFi (raspberry zero or similar with BT). In those devices, you can run pymadoka with MQTT so they will publish and receive all the updates via MQTT over wifi.

I have not tested myself setting up an MQTT thermostat in HA, but it should work fine.

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Hello,

Thanks for your hard work ! Very very good!

My house got 3 floors, and i've got controllers on the three floors.

Because my NUC is far away from the other two, how is the best way to pair the devices and after pairing they continue working ?

Should i use a bluetooth HW control for each floor ? Or once they are paired the communication is not done via bluetooth ?

Best Regards and thanks in advanced

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[frigi83]

The new HA bluetooth integration (with bluetooth proxy) is also interessant

[rivertech-git]

Does anyone know if it works with the esp Bluetooth bridge and the support of this in the latest home assistant version?