wlgrd / thingy52_homeassistant

Thingy:52 Sensor for Home Assistant

This sensor lets you connect several Nordic Thingy:52's to your Home Assistant installation. How many you connect is dependent on the Bluetooth hardware you are using.

Your hardware needs to support Bluetooth 4.0 or higher.

Usage

1. Install bluepy

    $ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
    $ sudo pip install bluepy
   

2. Find the mac address for the thingy

    hcitool lescan
   

3. Setup up the sensor in configuration.yaml, and replace the mac-address with what lescan gave you in this format ##:##:##:##:##:##

Configuration Variables

Name	Type	Default	Since	Options	Description
mac	string	required	v0.0.0	N/A	MAC address of the Thingy52 to be connected.
sensors	list	required	v0.0.2	temperature, humidity, co2, tvoc, pressure, battery	Sensors to be monitored.
friendly_name	string	Thingy:	v0.0.0	N/A	Set a custom name.
refresh_interval	time	60 seconds	v0.0.2	N/A	Time between refreshing the data set.
gas_interval	number	3	v0.0.0	1 for 1s, 2 for 10s, 3 for 60s	The polling interval between reading gas sensors.

Example Config

# First thingy
- platform: thingy52
  friendly_name: Kitchen
  refresh_interval: 
    seconds: 60
  gas_interval: 3
  mac: "f6:7d:66:5f:b9:e4"
  sensors:
    - temperature
    - humidity
    - co2
    - tvoc
    - pressure
    - battery
# Second thingy
- platform: thingy52
  friendly_name: Bathroom
  refresh_interval: 
    minutes: 1
  gas_interval: 2
  mac: "fe:42:28:a3:4f:d5"
  sensors:
    - temperature
    - humidity
    - pressure
    - battery

Clone or download this folder into your configurations directory, so that you have <configfolder>/custom_components/sensor/thingy52.py

Tips: When testing things, you might want to lower the refresh_interval and gas_interval so you get data more often. The default 60 seconds is to preserve power. To saven even more power, connect to the Thingy:52 from the Thingy-app google play and decrease the connection interval. Will try and support this from this sensor in the future.

Coverage

The sensor has only been testet on a OSMC image for the Raspberry Pi 2, using Home Assistant 0.57dev.
This sensor also works with Hass.io installed as Hass.OS on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, using Home Assistant 0.99.3

Known issues

• Will not handle automatic reconnections

Pull requests are very welcome!