Difficultly connecting a remote

[solomongumbie]

Hello, I suppose this issue I'm creating is more of a request for some documentation. I'm trying to connect my remote to my NodeMCU (ESP32) and I am doing something wrong. I read up on the ESPHome docs here: https://esphome.io/components/ble_client.html but still I seem to be doing something wrong.

[fsievers22]

I have recently changed from Arduino framework to esp-idf framework. Since then the BLE address is hardcoded:

esphome-ble-remote/ble_hid_client.cpp

Line 21 in b5b24c4

static esp_bd_addr_t ble_remote_address = {0x14,0x0A,0xC5,0xD0,0xD4,0xA2};

That is not an optimal solution and I will change that, but i have not much time at the moment.
So if you want to use this component you have to change that line in ble_hid_client.cpp.
The BLE-Client component of esphome has nothing to do with this component and you don't need it in your .yaml file to use this custom component.
I hope i could help you.

[solomongumbie]

That helps a lot, thank you, but I have my ble address in another format similar to 00:11:22:33:FF:EE. Is there some way I should convert that?

[fsievers22]

No you can just put it in like so:static esp_bd_addr_t ble_remote_address = {0x00,0x11,0x22,0x33,0xFF,0xEE};

[solomongumbie]

Thank you so much I got it working. May I ask if you have some form of long press detection setup in your HA configs?