RoomPresenceBeacon.md

Generic Room Presence BLE Beacon

This module shall be used with https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt_room/

Please replace FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as well as ffffffffffff with your devices mac.

Device Config Entry

{
  "type": "RoomPresenceBeaconDevice",
  "friendlyName": "Keychain Beacon",
  "mac": "FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF",
  "room": "living_room"
}

MQTT

Autoconfig

Sadly, the mqtt_room component doesn't allow mqtt auto configuration (yet?)

Presence

When an advertisement is received, this device module will calculate the approximate distance and publish it to room_presence/room where room is the room you've chosen in the Device Config Entry section

The payload will look like this:

{
    "id": "ffffffffffff",
    "name": "Keychain Beacon",
    "rssi": -81,
    "uuid": "ffffffffffff",
    "distance": 10.467388920465797
}