lighter library

[muscaiu]

Is there any chance you will make a lighter library to be used without things like Homebridge?
I'm sure other people like me are interested in using it to read the Mi sensor on a simple Express Node server or something similar.

[hannseman]

Yes this is something that I’ve been meaning to do. I’ll look into publishing a new package ASAP.

[Hypfer]

@hannseman you might want to take a look at https://github.com/Hypfer/Cybele

It should hopefully probably maybe provide a framework to do so. Utilizing BlueZ via DBUS to completely ditch that broken noble module

Feedback/PRs much appreciated

[hannseman]

@Hypfer that's a very interesting approach. It would unfortunately require dropping support for non-linux systems.

Since there's so many issues with the noble module (almost all open issues are noble / node-bluetooth-hci-socket related) I actually might consider moving to use bluez over dbus instead. One could imagine a homebridge-mi-hygrothermograph 3.0 which uses dbus and windows / MacOS users could stay on 2.0 and receive patches for breaking issues. 🤔

[alan-strohm]

I'd like to reuse the parser for an integration with room-assistant. The parser has very few dependencies (i.e. it could be used with either noble or Cybele) so it would be an ideal candidate for a separate package. Is that something you'd be interested in doing, @hannseman ?

[muscaiu]

I used to have a way (library) to scan for bluetooth device id's in range like a year ago (i didn't document it....)
What are you guys using to detect the Mi sensors mac or id?