@luciandf wrote:
Hello all,
A while ago, a friend of mine showed me how he could control his central heating with some sensors and home assistant and I really wanted to do the same. His setup was put together in a hurry with home assistant running on his computer with docker and I just can’t wrap my head around docker but I understand virtual machines and proxmox. Since I already have a server with proxmox I found this script to install the vm and started playing around with it.
Let me start with some confusions:
- What is the operating system running in the VM? It boots to a weird command line where you need to write root then enter. There you get a
ha >prompt where you can’t do much because it is a very confusing interface. After a lot of digging I found a mention somewhere that you need to write login and then you get to a linux like prompt where you can run normal commands.- Is it possible to just install this home assistant in a normal VM running debian with something like
apt install homeassistantor something similar?- After I started looking around the web interface of the new VM, I found that I can install a ssh terminal add-on. With it I managed to get to a more familiar linux interface but not really a friendlier one. It took me forever to realise that I was looking around an alpine linux variant. But alas, anything I install doesn’t last and I don’t have all the tools that one normally has in a linux distribution. The question is: What linux distribution is this Home Assistant based on?
Now the problem:
I have three sensors like this and I like in a one story house. I keep the server in the attic. The rooms on the first floor will be covered by two sensors and the livingroom downstairs will have another sensor. Next to the livingroom is the kitchen where the central heater is located and it will be controlled by a replay with a ESP8266 module.
Now, my intention was to use an ESP32 module with WIFI and Bluetooth to connect to the livingroom sensor and use a regular bluetooth dongle plugged in the server and passed through to the Home Assistant VM.
I was hoping that with the Bluetooth Dongle I can detect the two temperature sensors on the first floor and get information from them that way. But boy was I wrong. I got three bluetooth dongles. One is a noname with a CSR chip I assume, the other one is a Gamebird also detected like CSR I think and the other one is an ASUS (this one is the only one that specifically mentions that it supports BLE).I plug the USB dongle in, pass it through and the ASUS and Gamebird cannot find any devices. Nothing. I have a phone with bluetooth activated and some bluetooth speakers. Nothing. I can see the homeassistant bluetooth from my phone but just about that. With the noname dongle I can see the temperature sensor but I cannot connect to it. After playing around I managed to get it to connect but only for a second and it disconnects.
Can someone please help me out with this? Why is it that the ASUS bluetooth cannot find any devices and the noname one can? I suspect a problem with drivers, but if that’s the case then how can one install new drivers? How can I enable BLE on the bluetooth dongle?
I am so confused… Any help will be much appreciated. Cheers
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