The first OpenMQTTGateway powered off the shelves device !

The first OpenMQTTGateway-powered device ready to set up is available!

The smart home is a fragmented space with difficulties in making ecosystems talk together, it should improve with the new Matter standard, but we still have millions of devices already produced that are not Matter compatible.

What if we could reduce the number of hubs required and have only one that supports different ecosystems?

This is the purpose of OpenMQTTGateway, an open-source project compatible with Home Assistant, Homebridge, OpenHAB, DomoticZ, FHEM, Jeedom, NodeRed, AWS, and any MQTT-compatible IoT or SmartHome system.

For example, with OpenMQTTGateway, the appropriate BLE sensor, and one of these smart home platforms, you can:

Monitor your plants and have an alert when the moisture is too low,
Have a notification when your meat is at the expected temperature, thanks to BBQ sensors,
Monitor your fridge/freezer temperature
Verify if the humidity in your wine cellar or cigar box is as expected
Measure CO², Particle Matter and Formaldehyde levels in your home
Monitor the water and energy usage when you shower

With more than 70 sensors supported, the limit is your imagination.

As a major project step, we just released the Theengs Plug. The Theengs plug is a BLE MQTT gateway, smart plug, and energy monitoring device.

This is the first hardware result of several years of investment into the OpenMQTTGateway project. And it could be an answer to a question that I have asked myself for several years now, can I make a living developing open-source software and products?

Here is an overview of its capabilities:

BLE to MQTT gateway with support of tens of devices thanks to Theengs Decoder library. The plug uses an ESP32 acting as a BLE to Wifi gateway to scan, decode and forward the data of the nearby sensors,
Smart plug that can be controlled remotely,
Energy consumption monitoring,
Presence detection (beta)

The plug also benefits from all the functions of OpenMQTTGateway:

Home Assistant auto discovery convention
Over the Air updates
Connection to devices for control
Low power mode
Configurable scan interval
White list of sensors
Extensive MQTT API
SSL support

The Theengs Plug can be integrated with Home Assistant, HomeBridge, OpenHAB, DomoticZ, FHEM, Jeedom, NodeRed, AWS, and any MQTT-compatible IoT or SmartHome system. The plug is available in North America only. Other regions are planned.

This is also a way to support the OpenMQTTGateway and Theengs projects.

Theengs Plug is available in North America for 39.90$

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