#Passive BLE Monitor
swift ridge
It’s getting phased out
A bunch of the entities it supports got merged directly into core
If you have an ESPHome configured with Bluetooth proxies and compatible devices they will just show up in HA as discoveries on the integrations page without any further work
grave kindle
Unfortunately my devices aren't on the compatible with HA list, so I'm going to use the DIY sensor of Passive BLE, and customize the advertisement to meet the BTHome v2 format (as mentioned in the passive ble documentation).
Then I can flag it as a simple button.
Though I've smashed my head into my work bench often enough at this point, I may just need to buy something that works out of the box and rig a larger button to it.
swift ridge
https://github.com/Chreece/BTHomeV2-ESP32-example might do the job?
grave kindle
So it, might, but it will still require a BLE gateway as my button is not near my blue home assistant system.
Am I just not using the right words? How do I create the BLE_Gateway? I see config file text, but not which file to put those in.
swift ridge
If that arduino code does work you don’t need a BlE gateway whatever that is
You need a Bluetooth proxy
HA / Nabu Casa provide ready made images for some common boards that you can flash from your web browser
Join them to your WiFi, then they are automatically discovered by HA
Then any BTHome device they can see broadcast will be discovered and just work
If you can’t use one of the ready made images you can use https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html