TIL: #BTHome is an open standard for sensors to broadcast their measurements using #BLE.
https://bthome.io/
It's definitely worth a look if you are, like me, using ESP32 microcontrollers to measure all kinds of custom stuff and want to feed it to someplace else. For example, #HomeAssistant has built-in support and will auto-detect new BTHome devices.
You might want to consider it as an alternative to #MQTT. It has no delivery guarantees, but OTOH doesn't need LAN or credentials to work.
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