Not on the gateway. I was talking more in general and about my code related to OwnTracks.
I don't think it's worth it to change your driver (thanks for sharing it!). I could change the IDs on the tags to be the same or go a combined presence device in Hubitat.
Just stumbled on this thread and solution and it seems to perfectly fit my need. Is the application still supported?
I still use it everyday.
Ordering a gateway right now!
Me too. I had been looking for something like this to setup for car, By the way can support any other BLE gateway ? I am using Qingping Xiaomi gateway to transmit my BLE plant sensor. These gateways are fairly.
Looks like there is a Tuya gateway that's even cheaper:
Unlike the AB BLE gateway, the Tuya does not have an open API... so it is not possible to integrate it to HE, except via the Cloud probably...
I am assumig if I order AB Gateway I can also use this BLE beacon ?
April USB beacon 306 based on nRF52820 100M Range – April Brother CO.,LTD (aprbrother.com)
So I finally broke down and purchased the gateway! I only have one beacon to test with, I'm using
this one. Everything seems to be working, I'm getting a nice data stream into HE using the BLE Gateway Manager (thanks!).
For testing I have the gateway in position towards the back of the house and I just have the beacon next to me in the Living Room. Maybe 20 ft or so apart and it just goes back and forth - present, not present, present, not present
Looking at this screenshot - is this normal for a battery powered beacon? What battery powered beacons do others recommend? Looking to see if I remembered to put the barrels on the street or not. Not critical but as is, won't work.
I see that in my logs for the gateway. The associated devices, looking at their events (I'm not seeing where to turn on logging) are behaving normally.
My device is reflecting the present/not present which would trigger any rule associated with it.
I'll probably just add some code to the driver to only display 'not present' after a certain time has passed without a 'present' signal.
@ajardolino3 ,
Just sent in a pull request for your consideration.
Thanks for a great addition to Hubitat!
Thanks. I just reviewed your pull request and had some additional requests, so I replied to pull request email. Please let me know if you did not receive it, thanks.
I designed the app to work with other gateways, but you'd have to build a driver for any additional gateway you want the app to support. The current app has a driver for the April BLE gateway, but you can use it as an example to build drivers for other gateways.
@ajardolino3 I discovered that thread few weeks ago, and immediately purchased gateway and beacons. Following your great instructions, everything was setup in few minutes. However, I notice that the beacons are reporting as not present every minutes or so, while they remain few feet from the gateway (see event screen ■■■■ below).
What is going on there?
Thanks!
I submitted a pull request that fixes this exact issue a week or so ago. Not sure of the status.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll wait for @ajardolino3 to chime in.
Sorry forgot to merge, its merged now. It may take a while for the Hubitat Package Manager to pickup the update.
Doing a repair in HPM should push the update, right?
I don't think that's necessary. And actually, as soon as I merged the pull request, I was able to go into HPM just run an update, and it found and installed the new version.
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