MAC Address

[RFDarter]

doese the mac address of the remotes realy need to be provided befor compile time?

[afarago]

Actually this could even be dynamic in most cases (e.g. ESP8266).

Generally I would be rather moving in a generic proxy direction, that removes the need of explicitly registering each sensor on the receiver(hub/proxy) side.

At the moment I only would be able to hack this via e.g. mqtt or bluetooth_proxy side and that would only affect HA, not the esphome side.

[gfplab-scaffardi]

Hi! Yes, i agree that it would be better to avoid, in a real production environment, fixed MQTT topics and BLE mac addresses. I thing that it would be great, for MQTT topic, automatic suffixing with the device MAC address (like mDNS name), and getting BLE mac addresses from MQTT topic or from flash NVS that could be read in runtime. Is that possible in your opinion? It would be more flexible.