Theengs Gateway - BLE Sensors, CI/CD, and Automation - Series - Dad's Tech Lab - Smart Home, Technology, and Software Development Bloghttps://dadstechlab.com/series/theengs-gw/Theengs Gateway - BLE Sensors, CI/CD, and Automation - Series - Dad's Tech Lab - Smart Home, Technology, and Software Development BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenjimmy@dadstechlab.com (Jimmy Gillam)jimmy@dadstechlab.com (Jimmy Gillam)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Theengs to Try Out - BLE Sensors, Theengs Gateway, and Home Assistanthttps://dadstechlab.com/2025/06/theengs-to-try-out/Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:28:00 -0400Jimmy Gillamhttps://dadstechlab.com/2025/06/theengs-to-try-out/

I know I haven’t introduced my home lab or smart home setup yet. But I recently bought a few new sensors and wanted to share some new theengs I set up.

See what I did there? 😉

Yes, I installed Theengs Gateway on a Raspberry Pi 4B so that it would act as a gateway between my bluetooth low energy (BLE) sensors and my smart home’s MQTT Broker. MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol which is often used in IoT and smart home integrations. It does this via OpenMQTTGateway, and Theengs is like a wrapper around it so that it is easily stood up on a Raspberry Pi or other devices.

]]>Automating Theengs Gateway with Github Action Runnerhttps://dadstechlab.com/2025/07/theengs-ci-cd/Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:35:00 -0400Jimmy Gillamhttps://dadstechlab.com/2025/07/theengs-ci-cd/

One thing that I’ve learned over the years is how valuable source control can be. Especially when learning something new, I wind up changing code or tweaking configurations until I get a better understanding how things work and to get things working how I want…but changes don’t always work out. Instead of undoing my changes manually, I love being able to just make commits and being able to roll back if needed, or even just comparing my changes.

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