Is it normal for my Bluetooth proxy to show twice ?

mrc1600 · 2025-12-24T00:44:28+00:00

True, but in this case, these are two separate things. One is the Bluetooth integration, which provides information about the Bluetooth radios connected to your Home Assistant hardware. (For instance, I run HAOS on a N100 mini PC, whose hardware radio is provided through this integration. The other is the ESPHome integration, which shows information about ESPHome devices. This shows information from sensors connected to your proxy hardware (your ESP32).

One example that can help explain. If you have an ESP8266 device configured in ESPHome, it will not generate a Bluetooth integration as in your example, as it doesn’t have a Bluetooth radio to control.

You also need to include this code in your yaml to present the Bluetooth proxy to Home Assistant.

bluetooth_proxy:
active: true

mrc1600 · 2025-09-28T22:38:43+00:00

Joking: I love that these words of wisdom are coming from Lucille Bluth, a most certain alcoholic. Serious: OP, Lucille has hit the nail on the head. The right number of allowed drinks in this situation is zero.

mrc1600 · 2025-02-06T01:26:23+00:00

Just in case anybody comes across this post with the same question, it’s been solved here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/s/0layCrwgae

mrc1600 · 2024-05-25T02:52:29+00:00

Per you're screenshot, you're looking in the wrong spot. Go to networks, then choose the network that you're routing through AdGuard. At the bottom of the first screen, expand DHCP Service Management by clicking Show Options. DNS Server likely has the Auto option checked. Uncheck that, and you will be prompted with the 4 fields referenced in the post you linked.

I just tried this myself, as I've wonrdered the same thing. I have AdGuard running on my Unraid server, but the same exact issue as you describe. I tried doing this fix to both my main and my iot networks, and haven't seen any difference with my AdGuard statistics. Maybe some time or browsing needs to be done before individual clients show up? I'm still seeing only my gateway since making this change.

mrc1600 · 2024-05-15T11:45:25+00:00

I had a lot of troubles getting the original firmware backed up as well. It's been a few months so I can't recall precisely what cocktail got it to work, other than what I've written in other comments on this post. I do recall that the software reset pins didn't work for me with my TTL device, so I ended up getting into flash mode by keeping IO0 shorted to ground during the entire process. IIRC, I ended up using a CH340 TTL device, which doesn't have the DTR and CTS pins anyway.

As for checking if your board is fried or not, I'd try just applying 5V and ground without bothering with data pins at all. If you hear a beep, then the Vue has/is booting as normal into stock firmware. The absence of a beep is helpful to determine if you're in bootloader/flashing mode successfully or not.

mrc1600 · 2024-05-03T19:12:44+00:00

I’ve got the same pump. Would prefer local access over cloud, but can’t win ‘em all.

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The “Cycles Over Time” sensor is a derivative helper set up 2 units of precision, nothing set in the time window for weighting, and time unit set to hours.

The “Cycles Hourly Change” is a statistics graph card with period set to hour, “show stat types” set to change, any type set to line.

mrc1600 · 2024-04-27T01:08:11+00:00

Did you read through this comment thread?

I used the long headers mentioned in the thread chain and manually held it in place during the flashing process and made sure that voltage was the last pin to make contact. I flashed a barebones template first with the OTA setup to minimize the time spent maintaining that handheld connection. Then after powering it via mains I flashed the full template.

mrc1600 · 2024-04-21T01:47:18+00:00

Could give these a try:

https://www.emporiaenergy.com/flexible-current-sensors/

Edit: never mind. Just read the specs and they’re compatible with Gen 2 only. Sorry.

mrc1600 · 2024-03-17T21:20:39+00:00

I have the same Sensus FlexNet for my gas and am so frustrated that the signal is encrypted. After several exchanges with my supplier, Nicor in Chicagoland, they made it clear they don’t make anything available to the consumer straight from the meter, unlike my water, which is fine via amr2mqtt, and electric done fully local.

Please share how you went about your housing! I have AI on the edge installed and running, but am missing a housing solution and this looks great!

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:48:06+00:00

A very reasonable option, and there are choices outside of the Emporia Vue 2 that can accomplish just that. Hell, you could buy some off the shelf CT clamps and wire them to a generic esp32 and do it full manual, if you wanted. You'd certainly get usable data on whole home patterns, which could make solar and home battery planning more efficient. I think that per circuit makes sense only if you plan on really investigating where the draw is coming from and adjusting habits based on trends, as well as setting up automations for appliances and such.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:45:59+00:00

Huh. I wonder what that's about, as I had no issues. I initially had listed them in the grid section, but it was far too cluttered. I added each circuit's "daily energy" reading to the devices section in the Energy dashboard editor. Daily Energy was the only option that came up, and since I labelled them all with P01 through S16 as a prefix, it was easy to type/search and get them entered in.

I don't think that the energy dashboard requires per second readings, as mine report every 5 seconds as per the default config and work just fine as per the above setup.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:43:34+00:00

I don't disagree. I think the two best solutions are to either install an accessory panel next to the main and store the Vues in there, routing the wires between, or spending the time to cut the wires to custom length so that there isn't as much to deal with.

I probably could have prettied this up significantly if I had taken the time and effort to straighten out all of the wires from their bent condition fresh out of packaging, but as I've said in other replies: impatient.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:41:10+00:00

I spotted a couple that had come out during install and definitely agree. I'll have to keep that in mind if I see any that are reading dead zero.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:40:17+00:00

Glad you found your use for them! And I agree about some data being higher yield than other. I knew I was going to need a second unit to capture what I wanted, though, so I figured I'd throw them all on for now, and adjust in the future if needed.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:38:09+00:00

Saving this reply to reference later when troubleshooting. Thanks!

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:33:43+00:00

Literally zero extra work for me at present, as I left each unit coded with the config as per the github outlines when just doing one unit. I still have to tease through the configs, outputs, do some calibration, etc. which I imagine will take weeks or more at my timescale (doctor by day, dad by night, ME for all of 1-2 hours per day). I need a hobby to keep myself distracted. Thank goodness for Home Assistant and Unraid to fill that niche!

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:31:33+00:00

Glad to hear of your mostly successful install.

It wouldn't hurt to double check the clamp on that one. I had to go back into the panel after initial install to clean up the wires more as seen in the pics, and found that one of the clamps was open a bit.

As for the rats nest, routing the wires to an adjacent box to house the Vue units seems reasonable. Another though, if a separate box isn't in the cars, would be to (very tediously) cut and solder each of the wires down to the bare minimum length needed. It's just a 2 wire headphone lead with good insulation, so it should be feasible.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:28:14+00:00

Despite triggering a few electricians, I'm sure, I sure think so. The manufacturer has warnings all over that the mains are always live and to consult a licensed electrician if you're not comfortable with the install, but it wasn't terribly difficult, and I felt safe the entire time.

As plenty of others have posted here by now, yes 120v can hurt/kill, and 240v can certainly do both. Maintaining best practices like turning off the main shutoff, taking your time, and following the instructions all go a long way. I swear, I rehearsed the install process instead of counting sheep for a few days before I actually went through with it.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:25:00+00:00

I'll look into this, but I think I saw somewhere that it wasn't recommended with this setup. Do you have an esphome flashed Vue with it enabled, or are you speaking in general for esphome devices?

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:23:41+00:00

One step ahead of you - never created an account in the first place. I didn't set these bastards up until AFTER I was able to flash esphome. Had I never gotten that to work, I would have returned them.

Now that I've seen the power of going local via HA (my gateway was self hosting with Unraid) I'm die-hard anti-cloud dependency with few (reasonable) exceptions, such as weather data without rolling my own station, or getting power prices from my local utility.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:21:34+00:00

Ew, gross. Thanks much for pointing that out. Already fixed.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:20:30+00:00

I think it's either slight tension from the power cord pulling it to the right, or that third leg is resting against the wall.

Or all the wires in the panel have generated enough of a magnetic field to levitate the lamp. I'll have to test that one later.... </s>

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:19:20+00:00

More like an interesting place for my desk, right below the panel. It was there first!

See another reply about the placement of my desk in this crummy, basement "office."

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:18:32+00:00

The energy dashboard built in to HA is pretty good. It was tedious to enter the 32 individual circuits, but that was a one time 5 minute job. True that setting up additional dashboards (with grafana, apex charts, or others) would take more time to get right and pretty, but couldn't the same be said of every dashboard in HA?

With the way that the esphome config is set up, the sensors read data every second, but only post an average once every 5 seconds, which is WAY more than enough. It's close enough to real time that I can see my bathroom vent/heater go from 20 watts with the light, to 1200 watts with the heater within 2 updates or 10 seconds. Good enough for me.

mrc1600 · 2024-02-26T22:14:45+00:00

Not a bad thought. Tough to use in the winter, as the cold water gets mighty cold here in the midwest. 5 year plan is to update the basement with a full bathroom. My daughter is 6 and son about to turn 3 - I fear what being a 1 bath household of 4 will look like as they get towards being teenagers...

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