iBBQ-Gateway

an ESP32 Based iBBQ (Inkbird) BLE to MQTT Gateway

Inkbird Compatbility:

• Inkbird IBT-6X
• Inkbird IBT-6XS (Amazon UK Affiliate Link)

ESP32 Compatbility:

• Wemos LOLIN32 Lite (Amazon UK Affiliate Link)

Features:

• Automatically connects to iBBQ Bluetooth BBQ thermometers
• Adapts amount of channels to connected thermometer
• Should work with most ESP32 boards available
• Should work with iBBQ based Bluetooth BBQ thermometers with up to 8 channels
• Publish temperature (Celsius) as MQTT Topic
• Publish battery level as MQTT Topic
• Automatically reconnects to iBBQ BLE if disconnected

Requirements:

• Rename the credentials.example.h to credentials.h and edit it to your needs

Usage:

• After flashing the device will automatically connect to your WiFi, connect to your iBBQ Device and then start publishing data to MQTT

MQTT Topics:

• inkbird/BLE - Reports if the device is Connected or Disconnected to your iBBQ
• inkbird/BATTERYLEVEL - Reports the iBBQ Battery Level (e.g. 73 equals 73%)
• inkbird/PROBE1 - Reports the temperature of Probe 1 (e.g 120 equals 120c)
  • Each Probe has its own topic (e.g. inkbird/PROBE1, inkbird/PROBE2, inkbird/PROBE3, etc)

Known Issues:

• The ESP32 BLE Arduino library has a bug in the connection timeout:
  • Workaround: Make the following changes to FreeRTOS.cpp:
  • Change: xSemaphoreTake(m_semaphore, portMAX_DELAY); to xSemaphoreTake(m_semaphore, 15000UL);
  • Change: rc = ::xSemaphoreTake(m_semaphore, portMAX_DELAY) == pdTRUE; to rc = ::xSemaphoreTake(m_semaphore, 15000UL) == pdTRUE;

Todo:

• Improve the MQTT stability
• More verbose status logging to MQTT
• Change the ESP32 BLE library to something more modern?

References:

• Protocol Description: https://gist.github.com/uucidl/b9c60b6d36d8080d085a8e3310621d64
• Battery Status: sworisbreathing/go-ibbq#2 (comment)
• ESP32 BLE Arduino Timeout Bug: nkolban/esp32-snippets#874