OpenMQTTGateway
Reads hundreds of Bluetooth sensors, scales and plant monitors around the house and sends them to Home Assistant.
Chipnik catalog@chipnik-catalogWhat you need
- Board
- One of 4 boards: ESP32 DevKit, ESP32-S3 DevKit, ESP32-C3 SuperMini and 1 more
- Parts
- Nothing else, the board is enough
- Also
- Wi-Fi network
OpenMQTTGateway listens to Bluetooth Low Energy devices around you: thermometers, plant sensors, scales, tags and many more. It decodes their data with the Theengs decoder and publishes it over MQTT, so Home Assistant and other systems see each sensor on its own. These are the Bluetooth gateway builds, no extra hardware needed. Original project by 1technophile on GitHub, GPL-3.0. Chipnik hosts the release binaries unchanged so you can flash them from the browser.
After flashing, the board opens a Wi-Fi access point where you enter your network and MQTT broker. Home Assistant finds the sensors by itself through MQTT discovery.
Firmware files come from the v1.8.1 release.
After flashing
From the author’s guide:
- After flashing, the board opens a Wi-Fi access point where you enter your network and MQTT broker. Home Assistant finds the sensors by itself through MQTT discovery.
Versions
1.8.1 added to Chipnik 2026-11-05
Release v1.8.1 of 1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway, files unchanged. Release notes on GitHub