Victron Bluetooth Data in Home Assistant

[@a1dox]

Great video as always Lars! If you don't have a specific need for 10 minute polling,, instead of the Inject / Current State nodes you use, a single Events State node that automatically triggers when the output voltage entity drops below the threshold you set in the node. There's nothing wrong with your approach, but I prefer to trigger flows only when needed if I can. 🙂

[@LarsKlintTech]

Very good point, and that is maybe a better approach in this case. I think I have got used to the polling nodes, so thanks for the nudge 😊

[@alanblyde8502]

That’s a 2 thumbs up from me I definitely will be using this, have a lot of blue stuff and want to setup a few remote cameras with battery power and wifi as not practical for ac, being able to monitor all that gear this way is a big bonus cheers mate👌🇦🇺

[@LarsKlintTech]

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it. It sounds like you could really benefit from the Bluetooth proxies as well in HA.

[@alanblyde8502]

@ I’m about to check that vid out aswell 🤙

[@LarsKlintTech]

@@alanblyde8502 🤘

[@thmo_]

Just as a heads up for anyone doing similar things but want the cabling a bit tidier, there are various ESP32s available with PoE for power and network. They're amazing in a UniFi environment where PoE is available nearly everywhere.

[@LarsKlintTech]

Very good point. I have a bunch of M5Stack devices lying around, so used what I had. Do you know of any specific product you like? Any recommendations? And yes, I am always up for tidier cables 🤓

[@thmo_]

@@LarsKlintTech Using what‘s available is certainly always the best approach imo. I‘ve had great success with my projects using Olimex ESP32-POE and I‘ve been looking to get my hands on one from LilyGO as I‘ve used their stuff successfully but haven‘t tested that one myself yet.

[@jakeharvey05]

M5 Stack do one that’s been perfect for me, SKU: U138

[@janaltenburg]

Hi, can you show us please, how to use the MAC-Address filter in UniFi?

[@LarsKlintTech]

It's probably not enough content for a whole video, but you can find it under the settings -> SSID then scroll to the bottom where you'll find "MAC Address Filter". You then enter one MAC address at the time, and choose whether the list is "block" or "allow". I have an allow list, so only the devices I have entered a MAC for can connect.

[@janaltenburg]

@ Okay, I have seen it connected with a Radius Server. But you make it manually in the WiFi Settings?

[@LarsKlintTech]

@@janaltenburg Yes, cause it is a short list of known devices, so I don't mind. I haven't used a Radius server, so that would be new for me.

[@janaltenburg]

@@LarsKlintTech Okay, Thank you very much

[@DivinaFarms_James]

BLE is the way to go. Go Home Assistant!

[@LarsKlintTech]

Absolutely!! I use BLE a lot!

[@johnabriggs6044]

Great ideas and now I have more Ideas of this I can spent time and money to add to things I can monitor on my small farm just as did my solar fencer get charged yesterday or is the well pump on or off. more things to tinker with . after I get my Wireless link to my gate location with Unifi Bridge will be nice to add the Home assistant link to see my Victron Charger for my Solar lights alone my 800 ft drive