Hello,
Can anybody think of a solution to connect Mopeka tank level sensors to Cerbo GX when the sensors are outside the Bluetooth range (100 meters) of the GX device?
Previously I used a “long range” Bluetooth dongle or a pair of Bluetooth-to-Ethernet-to-Bluetooth radios. That worked perfectly but only for a few days. New equipment of the same type didn’t work. I tested on Windows 10 but they kept asking for drivers.
For now, my sensors are not integrated with Victron.
Fideri
I bought their wifi bridge, but haven’t got round to testing if that can be queried via node red yet.
I was quite surprised by the range on a TD40, but am fortunately nowhere near 100m, so comms to the GX are good.
Thanks @nickdb .
I considered their bridge but they told me that the only way to retrieve the data is through their mobile app. They don’t have a cloud API. In fact, they are cloudy (excuse the pun) about a cloud account. I need a “special business arrangement” for that. An app account will not work on desktop.
I’m now looking at other bridges but nothing yet that can read their universal sensors. I have found a bridge that reads other models but not universal.
I can’t see how to get the data to Node Red for now.
I thought that would be the case. They are a bit behind on tech, even their mobile apps are years old.