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Library to control Airthings devices through BLE, primarily meant to be used in the Home Assistant integration.
The integration supports the following devices:
Although some other devices have BLE capabilities, those devices use BLE for onboarding and configuration. It is not possible to fetch sensor data using this library.
Prerequisites:
Install dependencies:
poetry install
Run tests:
poetry run pytest
See this wiki page for more details on how to test the library with HA.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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Manage Airthings BLE devices
We found that airthings-ble demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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