ble2mqtt 0.1.0a12

BLE to MQTT bridge

Service to export BLE devices to MQTT with Home Assistant discovery

!!! It is a very early alpha release !!!

Use this software at your own risk.

Default config should be located in /etc/ble2mqtt.json or can be overridden with BLE2MQTT_CONFIG environment variable.

Example run command:

BLE2MQTT_CONFIG=./ble2mqtt.json python3 ble2mqtt.py

The configuration file is a JSON with the following content:

{
    "mqtt_host": "localhost",
    "mqtt_port": 1883,
    "mqtt_user": "",
    "mqtt_password": "",
    "devices": [
        {
            "address": "11:22:33:aa:bb:cc",
            "type": "redmond200"
        },
        {
            "address": "11:22:33:aa:bb:dd",
            "type": "xiaomihtv1"
        },
        {
            "address": "11:22:33:aa:bb:ee",
            "type": "xiaomilywsd"
        }
    ]
}

Supported devices:

Kettles:

• Redmond G2xx series (redmond200)

Humidity sensors:

• Xiaomi MJ_HT_V1 (xiaomihtv1)
• Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC (xiaomilywsd)

OpenWRT installation

Execute the following commands in the terminal:

opkg update
opkg install python3-twisted python3-pip python3-asyncio
pip install -U ble2mqtt

Create the configuration file in /etc/ble2mqtt.json and append your devices.

Bluetooth must be turned on.

hciconfig hci0 up

Run the service in background

python -m ble2mqtt 2> /tmp/ble2mqtt.log &

Container

Build the image as:

podman build .

Then use it as a mounted volume as:

podman run -d --net=host -v $PWD/ble2mqtt.json.sample:/etc/ble2mqtt.json:z 5966e7eaef47

NOTE: --net=host is required as it needs to use the bluetooth interface