GL.iNet GL-S10 as BLE Gateway

[to4ko]

I'm trying to use GL.iNet GL-S10 (https://blakadder.com/gl-s10/) as a BLE gateways and no BLE packets received at all. Regular ESP32 board based BLE Gateway working just fine.

Same time ble device_tracker binary sensor (tracking NUT mini) working fine on GL-S10's

  - platform: ble_presence
    mac_address: 7E:FE:3E:EC:59:FB
    name: ${board_name}_White
    device_class: presence

Config used for devices https://github.com/to4ko/myconfig/blob/master/esphome/esp32_poe_ble_hs.yaml

BLE Gateway Events counters

BLE device_tracker's binary Sensors

BLE Proxy working also

[myhomeiot]

Very strange. Try to enable discovery for this specific device and see if you have any messages from ble_gateway in the log. Maybe something wrong with MAC address byte order, etc.

ble_gateway:
  id: ${board_name}
  discovery: true
  ...

[to4ko]

no changes with discovery true...

here is log from regular ESP32 ble gateway

and here is log from GL-S10 device. devices laying next to each other

[myhomeiot]

Try to comment out bluetooth_proxy configuration and if ble_gateway start working return bluetooth_proxy and comment just active: true of it. PS: I never tested ble_gateway together with bluetooth_proxy :(

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true

[to4ko]

Try to comment out bluetooth_proxy configuration and if ble_gateway start working return bluetooth_proxy and comment just active: true of it. PS: I never tested ble_gateway together with bluetooth_proxy :(

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true

It's working! Looks like it's not possible to have BLE gateway and BT proxy on the same device... I'm closing this one as solved!

Thanks!

[myhomeiot]

@to4ko Great! Thanks for update! You can try to place ble_gateway before bluetooth_proxy in configuration this may works because ble_gateway not report BLE advertisement as processed and they should pass to next service registered in the chain.

Update: bluetooth_proxy report it as processed.

[to4ko]

test result negative - ble gateway not working once ble proxy enabled in config

[myhomeiot]

@to4ko This is a source of the problem, in version ESPHome 2023.6.0+ they add Bluetooth Proxy: Raw bundled advertisements esphome#4924 by @jesserockz I know how to fix it but I will wait for ESPHome dev's final decision because this improvement breaks other BLE components which should be modified or dev's should fix it.

[myhomeiot]

Issue fixed in ESPHome 2023.6.5.

[to4ko]

Thanks!!

Will try it!

One question - do you have any expirience with single ble gateway and more than one HA instances?

[myhomeiot]

One question - do you have any expirience with single ble gateway and more than one HA instances?

I don't have experience with this, but I think about this before :) If you have few HA instances probably you have external MQTT, so you can publish ble_gateway packets to MQTT and use it in any number of HA instances, more details you can find here.

[to4ko]

One question - do you have any expirience with single ble gateway and more than one HA instances?

I don't have experience with this, but I think about this before :) If you have few HA instances probably you have external MQTT, so you can publish ble_gateway packets to MQTT and use it in any number of HA instances, more details you can find here.

it's working natively without MQTT. Below is a screenshot from second HA instance - parse_data service working on both HAs simultaneously

[myhomeiot]

@to4ko I don't know that you can connect ESPHome to two instances of HA simultaneously. Just seen that in latest version of ESPHome in order to be able to call services you will need to enable it for new connected ESP.