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ble_gateway: homeassistant.service from esphoe automation #15

Closed tbaumann closed 2 years ago

tbaumann commented 2 years ago

Is there any reason why this shouldn't work?

  on_ble_advertise:
    then:
    - logger.log: BLE  !lambda return packet;
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: ble_monitor.parse_data
        data:
          packet: !lambda return packet;
          gateway_id: $device_name

It seems a bit unnecessary to rely on a homeassistant automation to listen to the event first

tbaumann commented 2 years ago

Actually, it might work. I think I had other issues why my device didn't show up in HA.

So perhaps this is just a documentation suggestion. This seems just so much more straight forward to implement.

myhomeiot commented 2 years ago

Should work, let's me know if you found this broken.

Main advantage to have automation instead service call it's you can disable automation if you want to stop ESP to send BLE packages.

tbaumann commented 2 years ago

Thanks. Glad to see this is okay. I will debug my issue a little more. But I don't think it was related.

I'm always a fan of simple solutions. But I agree, the event has the benefit of leaving an obvious debug trace in HA and have possible conditionals attached.