ESP32 BLETracker

This firmware help you to track a Bluetooth Low Energy device with an ESP32, using MQTT broker or collectord daemon

MARIO D'AMICO

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Description

This firmware help you to track a Bluetooth Low Energy device with an ESP32, using the MQTT protocol and Home Assistant or FHEM and the collectord daemon.

Details

What this firmware can do for you:

Tracks all discovered ble devices or only the desired devices placed in a white-list
Selectively reads the battery level of tracked devices
Generates MQTT topic for an easy integration in you favorite Home Automation Hub
Mimics a lepresenced server to be integrated in FHEM
You can configure the devices to be tracked directly from the integrated WebServer without need to re-flash the firmware
Supports for OTA Update
Logs main events in order to identify problems.

Components

1 × ESP32

Discussions

MARIO D'AMICO wrote 04/25/2021 at 06:31

Released v3.4

This release comes with minor fixes:

- Reduced the number of reported connection error when the tracker tries to read the battery level of the device and log level is info
- Avoid to set the Transfer-Encoding header twice when the data is sent to the browser

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MARIO D'AMICO wrote 03/24/2021 at 11:16

Released v3.3

What's new in this version:

- Last battery reading date and time is reported in the System Info page
- Added the capability to assign a friendly name to the devices in the white list.
- At startup all the known devices in the list are considered off (there is no more unknown state for them)
- Fixed issue with the time returned by the NTP library. Now you have to use the proper Time Zone.
- Added in the Configuration page the capability to change the timeout used to consider a device away

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