# Connection bluetti ac180

**URL:** <https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Created:** [October 18, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340 "2026-10-18T07:11:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Olivier.L57](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Olivier.L57](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/Olivier.L57)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340/1 "2026-10-18T07:11:45Z")

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Hello everyone.

I’m asking a question here but I don’t know if this is the right place.  
I want to control or at least try to retrieve information from a Bluetti AC180, which only communicates via Bluetooth. Ubuntu detects it well, that’s already something.  
I read that I need to go through Node-RED and MQTT, I asked Gemini to help me as a beginner, without success after going in circles for an hour trying the solution [bluetti\_mqtt](https://github.com/warhammerkid/bluetti_mqtt)  
I imagine someone knows the trick 😉  
Thanks a lot  
Olivier

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**Author:** ![guim31](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/guim31/32/4840_2.png) [@guim31](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/guim31)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340/2 "2026-10-18T07:18:03Z")

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Hi Olivier, and welcome!

If you’ve been going in circles, it’s not your fault: `bluetti_mqtt` has not been maintained since 2024 and does not support the AC180 (it stops at the AC200M, AC300, EB3A…). Additionally, recent AC180 models encrypt their Bluetooth.

The up-to-date library that handles the AC180, including encryption, is [bluetti-bt-lib](https://github.com/Patrick762/bluetti-bt-lib). For now, it only serves a Home Assistant integration: its MQTT gateway is planned, but not yet released. The day it is, no need for Node-RED: Gladys’s MQTT integration can directly read a custom topic for each feature.

There is not yet a Bluetti integration for Gladys, so no simple trick today, sorry.

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**Author:** ![Olivier.L57](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Olivier.L57](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/Olivier.L57)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 7:23am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340/3 "2026-10-18T07:23:06Z")

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Oh dear.  
So either I go through Home Assistant or a hardware solution, Gemini was talking about going through an esp32 module  
Thanks Guim

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**Author:** ![guim31](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/guim31/32/4840_2.png) [@guim31](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/guim31)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340/4 "2026-10-18T08:17:45Z")

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For the AC180, yes, Home Assistant is currently the only reliable path. ESP32 bridges, like [Bluetti\_ESP32\_Bridge](https://github.com/mariolukas/Bluetti_ESP32_Bridge), reuse the code from `bluetti_mqtt`: same issue, neither AC180 nor encryption.

If you want to keep Gladys, Home Assistant can serve as a simple bridge: its MQTT Statestream integration publishes values on MQTT, and Gladys reads them with custom topics.

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**Author:** ![Olivier.L57](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Olivier.L57](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/Olivier.L57)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/connection-bluetti-ac180/11340/5 "2026-10-18T08:23:03Z")

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Oh yes, I’m staying on Gladys.

Is there a method explained somewhere to make Gladys and Home Assistant coexist?