Hello all,
I recently purchased a presence detection device: Xmosb01xs (Xiaomi). It is a bluetooth device (BLE) which not only detects movement but also presence. Usually movement only detects movements (obviously) but any object sitting very quite in a chair won’t be detected. The presence detection devices are able to do so (using mmWave).
This device works very good: just being in a room makes the device detect anyone where the movement detection already decided to turn off the light. Awesome. Disadvantage: it is battery based but until now (over a month usage): no battery drain is visible and Xiaomi claims that the battery life is 3 years. We will see.
Now my question: I haven’t found a way to integrate directly into openhab.It is a Xiaomi device but uses encryption (bindkey). Currently I have integrated it into Home Assistant via ESPHome (as BLE proxy). From there I push the data via MQTT towards Openhab. Works fine, but I want to remove HA since I really prefer Openhab and everything else is Openhab (nearly 900 items and counting)…
My preferred solution would be skipping HA but still keep the MQTT integration (if possible). Does anyone have a clue how to reach this?
Best regards and already thx for any reply.