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@Will_71

@pierre-gilles in P1 there is practically only Bluetooth left, I don’t have anything in Bluetooth except my phone but is there an issue with this type of integration?

No possibility to do Bluetooth currently, but Gladys integrates very well with Theengs:

A connected thermometer in every room for 10 €: Bluetooth sensors + ESP32 + Gladys' automatic MQTT discovery

Hi Gladys community! I’m the creator of OpenMQTTGateway and Theengs, and I’ve been discussing with Pierre-Gilles about integration into Gladys. The first step is MQTT integration with auto-discovery. Here’s a tutorial written by Claude that describes how it works with a small Bluetooth thermometer with a screen, ThermoPro or Xiaomi, bought for €10 to monitor humidity or temperature. What few people know: these sensors broadcast their measurements in Bluetooth Low Energy continuously — and Glad…

Otherwise, you will have to wait:

Bluetooth (BLE) sensors: paving the way for external integration

Following an exchange with the creator of Theengs / OpenMQTTGateway, a gap was identified: Gladys does have a Bluetooth integration, but it only covers a handful of devices — whereas the ecosystem of BLE sensors (temperature, humidity, plants, etc.: Xiaomi, SwitchBot, RuuviTag…) is enormous, and projects like Theengs can decode hundreds of them. For me, this needs to be done through an external integration, not through code in the core. But today, the external integration framework does not pro…