EPOS Reference Station

[CFenner]

HomeAssistant detects two devices at my home, I suppose the second one is the EPOS rs-1 reference station.

Are there any information on the station that are worth collecting?

For me as I have a lot of issues with the satellite connection, it would be interesting to get values around that status.

[alistair23]

Oh interesting.

Are there any information on the station that are worth collecting?

We need to figure out what BLE service/characteristics is different between the two. So if you could compare the services and characteristicss exposed (you can use Bleak to do it from the command line) we can figure out how to stop the EPOS rs-1 reference station from appearing.

Hopefully it's as simple as finding some difference easily readable differenence. Otherwise we might have to check the device names and block the EPOS rs-1.

Just the output from https://github.com/hbldh/bleak/blob/develop/examples/service_explorer.py for each device would be a great starting place

[CFenner]

you can use Bleak to do it from the command line

I use a Mac that seems not to work that great when th bleak. Any recommendations?

[CFenner]

I just get this:

python examples/service_explorer.py --name ReferenceStation --macos-use-bdaddr    
2025-08-26 13:37:16,997 __main__ INFO: starting scan...
2025-08-26 13:37:18,984 __main__ INFO: connecting to device...
2025-08-26 13:37:20,862 __main__ INFO: connected to ReferenceStation (98:3D:AE:xxx)
2025-08-26 13:37:20,862 __main__ INFO: [Service] 98bd0001-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 40): Unknown
2025-08-26 13:37:20,863 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0002-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 41): Unknown (write-without-response), Max write w/o rsp size: 512
2025-08-26 13:37:20,948 __main__ INFO:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 43): Characteristic User Description, Value: bytearray(b'InBuf Char')
2025-08-26 13:37:21,205 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0003-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 44): Unknown (read,notify), Error: Failed to read characteristic 44: Error Domain=CBATTErrorDomain Code=15 "Encryption is insufficient." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Encryption is insufficient.}
2025-08-26 13:37:21,206 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002902-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 46): Client Characteristic Configuration, Error: disconnected
2025-08-26 13:37:21,206 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 47): Characteristic User Description, Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:37:21,207 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0004-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 48): Unknown (read,notify), Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:37:21,207 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 50): Characteristic User Description, Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:37:21,207 __main__ INFO: disconnecting...
2025-08-26 13:37:21,207 __main__ INFO: disconnected

No idea how I can initiate a service discovery.

[alistair23]

connected to ReferenceStation so I guess we could just blacklist the name.

You need to pair to the station (no idea how to do that) to fix the Encryption is insufficient errors

[CFenner]

Also my charging station is visible, but I think that does not show up in HA (or the other way round).

ython examples/service_explorer.py --name ChargingStation --macos-use-bdaddr
2025-08-26 13:42:18,159 __main__ INFO: starting scan...
2025-08-26 13:42:19,536 __main__ INFO: connecting to device...
2025-08-26 13:42:20,709 __main__ INFO: connected to ChargingStation (E8:06:90:xxx)
2025-08-26 13:42:20,709 __main__ INFO: [Service] 98bd0001-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 40): Unknown
2025-08-26 13:42:20,710 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0002-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 41): Unknown (write-without-response), Max write w/o rsp size: 512
2025-08-26 13:42:20,766 __main__ INFO:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 43): Characteristic User Description, Value: bytearray(b'InBuf Char')
2025-08-26 13:42:20,886 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0003-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 44): Unknown (notify,read), Error: Failed to read characteristic 44: Error Domain=CBATTErrorDomain Code=15 "Encryption is insufficient." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Encryption is insufficient.}
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002902-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 46): Client Characteristic Configuration, Error: disconnected
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 47): Characteristic User Description, Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ INFO:   [Characteristic] 98bd0004-0b0e-421a-84e5-ddbf75dc6de4 (Handle: 48): Unknown (notify,read), Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ ERROR:     [Descriptor] 00002901-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb (Handle: 50): Characteristic User Description, Error: Service Discovery has not been performed yet
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ INFO: disconnecting...
2025-08-26 13:42:20,925 __main__ INFO: disconnected

[alistair23]

It might be fixed by home-assistant/core#151375

[CFenner]

No, they are still detected.

[jmberg]

FWIW, neither the RS1 nor is the charging station are detected by the integration for me (today), even though I see them both in the HA BT map.

(I think. I don't see the charging station now, but that might be because the mower is currently docked. I think I saw it before. I do see the "ReferenceStation" now)