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Wishlist & Upcoming VenusOS Bluetooth Device Support (Tyre & Gas Bottle sensors)

Just thought I'd throw this out there, with the Ruuvi temperature and humidity sensors I'm wondering if Victron have any more Bluetooth devices on their radar to add support for.

I had bumped into two Bluetooth sensors that prompted this question:

1. Bluetooth Tyre Pressure Monitoring

2. Bluetooth Gas Bottle Monitoring

(I didn't link to specific devices but there are multiple brands and devices available in the market for both these devices)

It would be great to find reliable devices and add support for these for 4wds & RVs.

Anyone else have suggestions for other bluetooth devices that would be nice to haves?

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mje answered ·

Regarding using a Mopeka gas (& water?) sensor - would be nice if the lifespan of the Gas (water) could be estimated e.g. like the lifespan of the battery until empty

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netweb answered ·

Discovered an LPG Gas bottle sensor hooked up with the GX Tank 140

https://www.safiery.com/lpg-tank-level-bottom-sensor-magnetic~6392

Video https://youtu.be/Tv_UOgi9eCo


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netweb answered ·

Looks like support for BLE Gas Tank sensors from http://mopeka.com/products/ will landing soon

Thread on the forums:

https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/52274/venus-raspberry-pi-read-other-ble-device.html

Code added to GitHub https://github.com/victronenergy/dbus-ble-sensors/commit/a0118395754c8c8649d01e7039aa0b4b3c2e0f05

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netweb answered ·

I’ve just a couple of hours ago purchased these BLE 5.0 TPMS tire/tyre sensors from Aliexpress based on this open source project as if these can be supported in that project I’m expecting these devices are advertising unencrypted Bluetooth advertisements, fingers crossed they do.

I’ll give these a test, and hopefully can integrate them into Home Assistant via ESPHome or similar, if that works the next step will be to see if they can integrate with Victron Venus’.

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