Native Bluetooth Home Assistant Integration

[patman15]

Hi @fl4p!

As originally discussed in #84 (reply in thread) I have completed a native integration to my best knowledge. Testing revealed no issues so far, but I could use some beta testers. 😉

I also generated a plugin system to easily add further BMS types. You can find it in the repository. I also wrote a short documentation on how to add further types. I decided for having the plugins in the integration, as I needed some HA functionality (the BT matcher). Putting into separate API repositories, would have complicated the plugins, so I went simple. Can be changed though.

I'd love to at least share effort on the BMS querying part as I do not have other BMS types available for testing. Preferably, I'm looking forward to even join efforts or hand-over my work as I do not want to generate a competing piece of work. You already built up a great variety of supported BMS so I'd like to support that.

Let me know how to take it from here!

Thanks!

[sp0ngeboobs]

finally what I was looking for all year, a simple and working solution) my batteries are far from the home assistant and the bluetooth did not reach. I installed your addon yesterday, everything seems to be working fine. BMS Dali. I would like to see a delta between the highest and lowest charge. or charge by cells. This is important to observe so that there is no big difference between the cells. Is it possible to add it or do I have to write a whole code, because I'm not a programmer!?) Thanks!

[patman15]

@sp0ngeboobs happy to hear that you find it useful! For the requested functionality, please raise a feature request and then let's discuss details there. This is the wrong repo for this.

[timmills]

Hi this looks terrific - saw it reviewed on Youtube Off Grid Garage. Will the new Bluetooth stack mean that it will work with HA Bluetooth proxies? If so that would be mean we can put a BT Proxy out with batteries etc in the garage. (also means I can remotely monitor the caravan via VPN)
https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html

[patman15]

Credits for the add-on go to Fabian, I just did a "clone" that works with HA natively. Check the first comment for a link to the repository of my "clone".

[7wells]

@fl4p
Hi Fabian, will you be able to implement Patrick's work in your addon?

@patman15