Changes in 8.0.0-beta
This release brings a totally new HA BLE format. We have created a BLE advertisement format that you can use for your DIY sensors. The main advantages of the new format:
- Developed by the makers of BLE monitor, so fully supported
- Flexible format (choose your own number of digits, data size)
- Supports encryption (if you want)
- Energy efficient. We tried to make a format that is as short as possible, to reduce energy consumption, but at the same time to be as flexible as possible
- Support for a wide range of sensor types (and others can be added easily)
- Sensors will be automatically added in HA, based on the measurement you send.
More info about the format can be found here (till the docs get merged in the real documentation)
https://github.com/custom-components/ble_monitor/blob/new-HA_BLE/docs/ha_ble.md
As this is a beta, there are a couple of things that need to be added before the final release.
- Documentation for encryption
- Restore the state after a restart
- Check how ATC sensors work when sending in mixed advertisement mode