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Bluetooth client steps

I am looking to automate a few devices that has a bluetooth receiver (and remote that for now I presume is using the same receiver). I would like to use the ESPHome BLE client or proxy (not sure which is right) for me to send commands like the remote can do. Traffic goes one way only, at least what I can see for now.

I'm looking for the steps I need to take to make this work. I have a Bluetooth Proxy and one Bluetooth based tracker device in the home; I can debug BLE devices using a few apps on the phone, so getting UUID and more shouldn't be a problem.

But I'm not sure if I need to setup another ESP32 that has BLE to represent the device(s), but in that case I'm not sure what role the Proxy will/should play? I need to find the commands which I think I can do by installing the app for the device that uses bluetooth. Is is as simple as creating a BLE client on ESP32 and add that data to it, or is it a bit more complex?

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u/egoalter — 6 days ago

▲ 3 r/zwave

Ceiling fan motor/light controller

I'm looking for a module that I can mount in the canopy of the ceiling fan, where I can control the fan speed and light (preferably with a dimmer but that's not so important). The fan only has one power connection, and is one of those where you have to pull a wire to toggle light and fan speeds - that's what I want replaced with a z-wave module.

So far I'm coming up with a ton of wall switches but I won't have those wires. Any suggestions?

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u/egoalter — 9 days ago

▲ 2 r/DIY

Hinge/bracket suggestions

I'm looking for a bracket for a shelf, that allows me shelf to be pulled out using a hinge or something, so distance of at least 2 inches comes between the part of the shelf that's flush with the wall in normal use (I need to be able to access cpap tubes for cleaning).

I can find plenty of hinge solutions that are mounted where the shelf meets the wall. I need it mounted further down, so the shelf can swing out from the wall, 45 degrees will be fine, but anything over 25 degrees should work too.

So the current angle bracket that holds the shelf to the wall needs to pivot on the bottom of the bracket and I need something to ensure the shelf stays in place when it's in the standard position of a 90 degree angle to the wall.

Do brackets/hinges like that have a special name I can use for searching?

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u/egoalter — 1 month ago

▲ 10 r/Ubiquiti

UCG Ultra upgrade resulting in 33.3% dropped package reports?

I'm a bit lost finding the exact records/telemetry to show exactly when this happened but I suspect it was when I upgraded my UCG Ultra to 5.1.15 - and yes, I know it was just the "console" part that claimed to be updated, but it still reboots the gateway part - really annoying and making me long for the old UCK-G2 days.

What I'm seeing is a claim that my uplink is degraded with a flatline report of 33.3% package loss. I do a lot of high utilization traffic as part of my work, and I'm definitely not seeing retransmissions that would indicate that issue, and when I do a speed test, it reports full speed (actually a bit more than it used to be). As you can see from the screen-scrape from the front page showing the last day of traffic, that dotted line is the so-called package drop - which should not look like a flatline to be believable. Or rather, it should be something you see when streaming videos, large downloads etc - and there's nothing showing.

The second image is switch traffic - the modem is not connected directly to the UCG but goes through the switch where I have a mirror port configured to "spy" on traffic coming in/out of the network - pre/post firewall. As you can see, the interface to/from the cable modem shows a very low package dropped which is easily explained by some of my DROP configurations preventing some IOT devices accessing the internet directly or bypassing my network guards in any way. This number doesn't match the 33.3% shown, so my theory is that this is a bug in the 5.1.15 version.

My question here is if this is due to the new version, are others seeing this too? Does anyone know about a fix, or if it is the version just wait to a new one, or look for a way to rollback the version? This isn't urgent - the system is operating normal, no degraded speed, streaming issues etc. but I'll like to know if this is a known issue?

u/egoalter — 2 months ago