HomeAssistant – Bluetooth (DIY Your BTHome Bluetooth Sensor)

HomeAssistant - Bluetooth (DIY Your BTHome Bluetooth Sensor)

Issues with Bluetooth Devices: Currently, most Bluetooth devices are designed to work with smartphone applications and broadcast their data in proprietary formats. However, using these Bluetooth devices in your HomeAssistant home automation platform requires support for each proprietary format, making it difficult to use!Problems Addressed by BTHome: A set of open, standardized BLE communication protocol … Read more

Setting Up an MQTT Testing Environment (Part 2)

Setting Up an MQTT Testing Environment (Part 2)

Recently, I have been testing the integration of Mobotix cameras with HomeAssistant. Through testing, I found that the Mobotix camera images can be successfully integrated into HomeAssistant via the Onvif protocol or RTSP. So how can the alarm signals from the Mobotix camera be integrated into HA? Since the Mobotix camera supports the MQTT protocol, … Read more

Setting Up an MQTT Testing Environment (Part 1)

Setting Up an MQTT Testing Environment (Part 1)

Recently, I have been testing the integration of Mobotix cameras with HomeAssistant. Through testing, I found that the images from Mobotix cameras can be successfully integrated into HomeAssistant via the Onvif protocol or RTSP. So how can the alarm signals from the Mobotix cameras be integrated into HA? Since Mobotix cameras support the MQTT protocol, … Read more