qingping

Qingping BLE platform

This platform implements parsing Qingping BLE advertisements and exposing them as sensors or binary sensors.

Supported known data points:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Battery
• Door/Window/Opening
• Door/Window/Opening problem
• Pressure
• Motion
• Illuminance
• Light
• PM 2.5
• PM 10
• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Also supports any other type via automation or feature request.

Provide explorier feature to get data without knowing MAC-address or supported data points.

Minimal sample configuration:

# Load component implementation and code generation helpers from github.
external_components:
  - source: github://dentra/esphome-components
    components: [qingping, codegen]

# Define qingping BLE listener on specified MAC-address.
qinping:
  mac_address: "11:22:33:44:55:66"

sensor:
  - platform: qingping
    type: co2
    name: CO2

binary_sensor:
  - platform: qingping
    type: light
    name: Light

Note

If you do not receiving Qingping BLE advertisements on WiFi device you may need to connect it to the cloud.

Important

To compile properly this component requires C++17 with GNU extensions and up. It automatically changes environment to gnu++17 to support it.

Configuring Qingping Hub.

The Qingping platform is using esp32_ble_tracker so you able to configure it first.

The Qingping platform maintains a list of hubs, each of which is responsible for listening to a specific device. The exception is a hub with explorer or with verbose mode, it can listen any device.

# Load component implementation and code generation helpers from github.
external_components:
  - source: github://dentra/esphome-components
    components: [qingping, codegen]

qingping:
  - id: qp_th
    # MAC-address is required for specific defice.
    mac_address: "11:22:33:44:55:66"
  - id: qp_air_monitor
    # MAC-address is required for specific defice.
    mac_address: "11:22:33:44:55:77"
    # Log all processed packets
    verbose: true
  - id: qp_new_device
    # MAC-address is required for specific defice.
    mac_address: "11:22:33:44:55:88"
    # Log all processed packets
    verbose: true
    on_state:
      - lambda: |-
          // cast to known structure that work with battery level data type
          auto *battery = x.cast<QPDataBatteryLevel>();
          // check that our variable fits this data point
          if (battery) {
            ESP_LOGD("main", "Battery Level %f (%u)",
              battery->get_battery_level(), battery->raw_battery_level);
          }
      - lambda: |-
          // check for known data point QPID::BATTERY
          if (x.type == QPID::BATTERY) {
              // cast to known structure that work with battery level data type
              auto *battery = x.cast<QPDataBatteryLevel>();
              ESP_LOGD("main", "Battery Level %f (%u)",
                battery->get_battery_level(), battery->raw_battery_level);
          }
      - lambda: |-
          // check for unknown 0x55 data point
          if (x.raw_type == 0x55) {
            // cast to universal structure that work with any data type
            auto *type55 = x.cast<QPDataRaw>();
            ESP_LOGD("main", "Type 55 value is %u", type55->u16);
          }

  - id: qp_explorer
    # listen all mac-addresses and automatically create sensors/binary_sensor for known data points
    explorer:
      # do not create and publish temperature sensor
      temperature: False
      # do not create and publish motion binary_sensor
      motion: False
      # create battery level sensor with name "Battery"
      battery_level: Battery
    # Log all processed packets
    verbose: true

sensor:
  - platform: qingping
    # attach sensor to qp_th hub
    qingping_id: qp_th
    type: battery
    name: Battery Level

  - platform: qingping
    # attach sensor to qp_air_monitor hub
    qingping_id: qp_air_monitor
    type: carbon_dioxide
    name: Carbon Dioxide

Configuration variables:

• id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID for this hub.
• mac_address (Optional, MAC Address): The MAC address to track for this hub. Note that mac_address is required if explorer or verbose is not present.

Automations:

• on_state (Optional, Automation): An automation to perform when a new BLE device state change is received.

Advanced options:

• use_beacon_mac (Optional, boolean): If true uses MAC-address from the beacon. Default: False.
• verbose (Optional, boolean): If true enables verbose output to log. . Default: False.
• explorer (Optional, Schema): Can automatically creates sensors and binary sensors based on

explorer variables:

All explorer variables are present by default, you can exclude unnecessary ones by setting them to None or False.

• temperature (Optional, string): The name of created temperature sensor. Default: Temperature.
• humidity (Optional, string): The name of created humidity sensor. Default: Humidity.
• battery_level (Optional, string): The name of created battery level sensor. Default: Battery Level.
• door (Optional, string): The name of created door binary sensor. Default: Door.
• door_left_open (Optional, string): The name of created door left open binary sensor. Default: Door Left Open.
• pressure (Optional, string): The name of created pressure sensor. Default: Pressure.
• motion (Optional, string): The name of created motion binary sensor. Default: Motion.
• illuminance (Optional, string): The name of created illuminance sensor. Default: Illuminance.
• light (Optional, string): The name of created light binary sensor. Default: Light.
• pm10 (Optional, string): The name of created pm 10 sensor. Default: PM 10.
• pm25 (Optional, string): The name of created pm 2.5 sensor. Default: PM 2.5.
• co2 (Optional, string): The name of created co2 sensor. Default: Carbon Dioxide.

Configuring platform binary_sensor

The qingping binary sensor platform creates a binary sensor from a qingping data point and requires Qingping Hub with mac_address to be configured.

You can create the binary sensor as follows:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: qingping
    type: light
    name: Light

Configuration variables:

• type (Rquired, string) - type of the binary sensor, see below.
• qingping_id (Optional, ID) - id of qingping hub. You can skip this parameter if you have only one hub.
• id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID for this binary sensor.
• name (Optional, string): The name of the binary sensor.
• All other options from binary_sensor.

Configuration types:

• door
• window
• opening
• door_problem
• window_problem
• opening_problem
• motion
• light

Configuring platform sensor

The qingping sensor platform creates a sensor from a qingping data point and requires Qingping Hub with mac_address to be configured.

You can create the sensor as follows:

sensor:
  - platform: qingping
    type: co2
    name: CO2

Configuration variables:

• type (Rquired, string) - type of the sensor, see below.
• qingping_id (Optional, ID) - id of qingping hub. You can skip this parameter if you have only one hub.
• id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID for this sensor.
• name (Optional, string): The name of the sensor.
• All other options from sensor.

Configuration types:

• temperature
• humidity
• battery_level / battery
• pressure
• illuminance / light
• packet
• pm25 / pm_25 / pm_2_5
• pm10 / pm_10
• co2 / carbon_dioxide

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