Hi @chriscolden, I’m not aware of any way to make a “OH cluster”. However, the binding supports running multiple adapters, so you could use USB extender cables. There are passive cables that give you extra 5m active cables that give you +30m.
Thanks, That doesn’t really help, as it will be over a 30 meter run to each room by the time i’ve had to drop into lofts ect to run the cables. I’m not sure how others are using them for room detection i wouldn’t have thought they would be doing the usb extentions.
Maybe run OH (or some other tool) on each additional RPi just for detecting BLE presence. Then send the presence state to your central OH instance for further processing.
@chriscolden have looked at ser2net + socat configuration to share those dongles over ethernet?
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@gitMiguel no ive not seen that. Do you have any examples of this in use with openhab? Dont worry if not, I’ll certainly need to look at that. I’d like to get to the point that a tablet will switch the view in habpanel.
Here’s a good tutorial about it. Just replace z-wave with your bt dongle.
I have used this kind of configurations with multiple usb devices and works like a charm.
I have a Harbor Breeze bluetooth fan control (Same as this device: https://www.fan-light.com/product.php?id=231). I’ve successfully added it, but it doesn’t have any of the fan/light controls.
How could I go about getting it to work with this binding? For what it’s worth, I have the UUID info from a BLE scanning app and also an opensource homekit bridge made for this device.
Hi, I actually tried that excellent tutorial. Everything goes as excpected and I get a device, but i cannot make it work with bluez, hciconfig or anything, I want it to show up as my HCI1 adapter in hciconfig but nothing happens. I cant find anyone who has actually done this with a bluetooth adapter. Anyone has any more info on this? Im trying to share a RPI3s bluetooth.
Can’t think any reason why it shouldn’t work serial wise. Just guessing here but could it be something with permissions?
Sorry but can’t help you any further.
I did a lot of testing yesterday, I couldn’t find a solution to the ser2cat alternative. I’m absolutely no pro but I did a lot of research and I could not find anyone who had succeeded.
Maybe a Bluegiga adapter is more likely to succeed because it actually shows up as a device (/dev/ttyUSBx) and the binding can point to such thing.
It would had been so awesome if I could use my 4 piZero to be my adapters. Right now I’m going back to my old solution with Node-RED and sending the data over MQTT to openHAB.
Awesome binding overall. This is needed. More things are going bluetooth nowadays!
Good afternoon. Installed BLED112. He sees only BLE devices, but does not see the device of the early version of bluetooth. What can be done?
Hi @vizras, I’m sorry to tell you BlueGiga devices can only work with BLE 4.0+ devices. Please have a look at the compatibility matrix here: https://github.com/sputnikdev/eclipse-smarthome-bluetooth-binding#bluetooth-adapters-compatibility-matrix
Hi @grizzlyjere,
would you be able to create a ticket on github (here) with some details (e.g. source code examples if available etc)? From that point we could start doing something, I’ll be helping you. Thanks.
But can I explain how to get the battery charge from iTAG? Windows. Bluegiga BLED112.
Hi @vizras, next release will include iTag device support and various stability fixes for BlueGiga adapter. iTag device will have button and battery channels.
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Good afternoon. When will the next release?
Hi All, I’ve been working hard to make it available for everyone. Most likely I’ll cut a new release this week. Please stay tuned. It will include:
- Support for Xiaomi Miflora sensor
- Support for Xiaomi Temperature and Humidity sensor
- Support for iTag
- Some serious stability improvements for BlueGiga adapter/transport
- GattParser improvements
- Bugfixes and stability improvements
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Hi Vlad,
any chance it will support my RAR213 weather station? 
Hi @druciak, quite possibly it can work in the new release. There will be some significant stability fixes. I’ve also improved logging so at least we will be able to troubleshoot.
Hi Vlad,
Great work! Out of curiosity, will the miflora sensors give you the information of the device i.e. moisture level? Also, it picked up my mi-scale and returns all the fields like bluetooth:ble:C80F10A97462:181D-2A9D-weightsi, bluetooth:ble:C80F10A97462:181D-2A9D-weightimperial, bluetooth:ble:C80F10A97462:181D-2A9D-month and bluetooth:ble:C80F10A97462:181D-2A9D-heightimperial, but unfortunately doesn’t returns any numbers. Is this something that’s on your radar or easy to fix on my end?
Cheers and keep up the great work.
Pim