Home Assistant ETHERNET Bluetooth Proxy How To - Lilygo POE ESP32

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00:00 The WHY?
04:00 Hands On
06:35 ESPHome YAML Install
14:21 How to Flash and Jumper Issue
18:34 Testing in HA
20:23 Closing Thoughts
21:16 The BEST Part!

[brianmorgan]

You had me when you said, "No power plugs, just POE". Thanks

[grbgotn]

Speaking as a controls and automation engineer with 33 years experience, I have been awaiting the POE since I got involved with this stuff earlier this year. I wish that Pi and others would follow suit.

[wapphigh]

Fantastic guide on how to do all this and the use case. You can do the same thing flashing ESPhome onto a SMlight POE. They cost a bit more but are ready made, have a large antennae, are cased already and can be flashed without an additional board.

[WoLpH]

Thanks for the heads up with the unifi stuff... I was pondering an upgrade of my network

[andrewlhoover]

Good useful details on the olimex vs lilygo boards. I've been running some olimex boards for a while without issue but seeing them side by side was really useful to me.
Thank you!

[WoLpH]

Any random flashing tool will work just great with the lilygo, no need to buy their specific flasher. Even an arduino can be used to flash other devices :)
Source: I bought the lilygo thing, didn't notice I needed the flashing thing and used one of my random ftdi flashing devices instead.

[K-politic]

It is funny, I got 2 of these 3 weeks ago for this exact reason

[carltonwbrooks]

I live 3 blocks away from a massive Amazon warehouse. 90% of their delivery vehicles are Rivian Vans which are run by Bluetooth. My BT traffic is horrible because of this.

[klim]

Same problem with Olimex esp32 poe, one is burned out for no reason.

[EvanWasHere]

Weird. I just built a new smart home with about 100 2.4 WiFi devices and a UniFi U7 Pro. I created a 2.4Ghz only SSID and have over 60 Govee, LG, Miele, Epson, Reolink, Switchbot, and more devices connected so far. I've only had an issue with one Chinese manufacturer and their lights not connecting to this SSID so i had to create a second 2.4Ghz SSID with a little less security and it connected right up. I've had to reboot the AP for that same lights twice as it lost connection. But no other devices have issues.

[gubbernl]

3:55 'cut down all that traffic on the 2.4GHz'. It's a nice device you use there as a proxy! But surprise, Bluetooth users the same 2.4GHz band as Wifi 2.4😉

[Hotcubcar]

Love to see an alternative, do I really need to use their specific programming board?
I'd hate to get the add on only to use it once.
Unless I can think of more places to use this . . .hmm

[phillipzx]

Speaking of Bluetooth proxies. Over the weekend I switched from a spare i7-10700K PC (that has BT on the motherboard) running Home Assistant to the Home Assistant Green, which has no BT transceiver. The swap was simple enough. I installed the backup and everything worked fine, which was odd because HA Green has no BT wireless unit. I have a dozen ThermoPro BT temp/humidity sensors on the property, all showing correct readings. How the heck were they still being read by HA?

Then I remember I had ONE Shelly device in the shop I was using to control some 12-volt fans. They'll act like a BT proxy if set up correctly, and the built-in proxy function was "active." Mystery solved. The moral to this terribly written story is that if you have some Shelly devices in your setup, you might not need to add a dedicated proxy.

[danjones]

All balls, was about to upgrade my Asus router with unifi U7pro Should i get a 6 pro to deal with 2.4ghz for the moment?

[darknessblades]

I have seen a few ESP32 Lora devices from Lilygo, would it be possible to use these as a RF beacon, similar to RF-link modules based on a atmega 2580.

If it is would love to get one to use with a Ducobox [home ventlation, that uses the 868 band for their controllers]
there are modules that plug into the box, but I can't really add these to the one I have

[noloboy]

Wow, I just checked my U7 Pros and TX Retries are solid yellows. SMH. I'll try to downgrade the firmware and hope it helps. Thank you for the heads up

[maverickmaker]

No ESP device works with the U6s or U7s. Ubiquiti makes junk, I had to by Cisco APs to make my ESPHome Bulbs and presence sensors work.

[tritontr]

Crap. I bought a unifi system last week with a U7 pro AP. Was planning on installing this week. 😢