SwitchBot - Tag - Dad's Tech Lab - Smart Home, Technology, and Software Development Bloghttps://dadstechlab.com/tags/switchbot/SwitchBot - Tag - 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.Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:28:00 -0400Theengs 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.

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